I saw a lovely picture of chocolate “twinkies” with peanut butter filling over at Tastespotting and instantly thought, “GLUTEN-FREE TWINKIES! I’ll make a fortune! Everyone will flock to my blog!”
Boy howdy, I am not the first person to go there. So for your delectation, and my amazement, a little array of gluten-free twinkie recipes! These range from little cream-injected suckers to ginormous ones that you can fill just by cutting open. Behold:
From “Hey, That Tastes Good”: ginormous vanilla cake twinkies with a buttercream filling via cutting out and replacing a little cake window.
From celiac.com: vanilla layer cake with strawberry filling, not really a twinkie.
The celiac.com forums have what they say is a really authentic-tasting gluten-free recipe for the Twinkie cake, and link to an authentic recipe for the filling.
Clan Thompson’s Celiac Site has another layer cake variation, this one vanilla/vanilla.
Making a layer cake and calling it a twinkie seems to be the order of the day: there’s another one at GroupRecipes, which by the formatting I think was copied from RecipeZaar somewhere, which is one more vanilla layer cake, this time filled with marshmallow creme.
And you can even order them pre-made from a bakery in Michigan, at $24 per dozen. Molly’s Gluten-Free Bakery in Wisconsin does too, but they don’t ship! But Gluten Free Creations in Arizona does, $5 for three “Winkies”.
So then the question becomes: why haven’t Mariposa Baking, near my house, or Farmer’s Kitchen Cafe in Davis where I grew up, jumped on the recreated-childhood-snackin-cake bandwagon yet? If the quality of Mariposa’s cookies and cupcakes is anything to go by, their twinkies would be FABULOUS!
I’m surprised that there were no gluten-free cake recipes that called for making small twinkie-style cakes with injected filling. Or even big ones. Of course, it wouldn’t be hard to get this twinkie-style cake pan – which I am now TOTALLY registered for, by the way – and make any of these in it. I’m just saying!
In the quest for a Creative Commons-licensed picture of Twinkies on Flickr to delight your eyes, I found something even more delightful: a picture of my friend Cola! What happened there?! Apparently in the adjoining text, Les is comparing French madelines to Twinkies. But still.
So, in retrospect, maybe there is room for some more gluten-free twinkie exploration out there. From what I’ve read, and vaguely remember – not having eaten a Twinkie in what seems like ten years – they are actually more lemony in the cake region. I would love to make a gluten-free Choco-Dile or Suzy-Q or, my god, a Sno Ball. Watch this space….
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