Twinkies were a very special treat when I was a kid. We didn't get them very often, but when we did, I was in heaven! The thought of not seeing Twinkies on the grocery store shelves was really depressing. But then I stumbled across a post on Pinterest about homemade Twinkies. I wasted no time ordering the pans, the cream injector and the Princess flavoring. Yesterday I got my King Arthur order and went right to work. My hubby isn't all that fond of Twinkies. Seems he's not impressed with vanilla filling. So when I made up the cream filling, I added some KAF espresso powder and Vietnamese cinnamon to the flour/milk mixture. Yup, he's a convert now! The cake part tastes exactly like the original. I did use KAF castor sugar in the filling and beat the heck out of it. I did find it difficult to inject the cream. My first attempt ended with just a little cream. So I tried again and the results were better. But be careful, I must have gone too deep in one or it split because there was a good deal of cream beneath the cooling rack! Next time I make them, I think I'll make the cake part and add some espresso powder and cinnamon and then add cocoa to the cream. BTW, I use a version of the cream recipe to frost and decorate cakes. It's light and not too sweet so you can actually taste the cake. Thanks so much for the recipes and helpful hints, though I might have to consider putting a treadmill in my kitchen to work off all the extra calories I'm eating!

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