Step aside Twinkies, these truffles have you beat! You won’t need to hunt down the remaining Hostess cakes left in the world once you bite into one of these beauties. After yesterday, I decided to not even try to share something healthy today. It would just look like a joke seeing those two recipes side by side on my homepage. So I present to you, Twinkie truffles!
The truffle base is similar to a cake ball, but instead of frosting I mixed the cake crumbs with marshmallow creme. Then to take them over the top and get into Twinkie-character, a marshmallow creme filling is piped into the middle before being dipped in yellow chocolate coating. Do you see the resemblance?
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TWINKIE TRUFFLES
Makes approximately 3 dozen truffles
Ingredients:
CAKE BALLS
1 box yellow cake mix (plus ingredients on box)
1 Tbsp vanilla extract
7 oz. marshmallow creme
CREAM FILLING
2 tsp very hot water
1/4 tsp salt
7 oz. marshmallow creme
1/2 cup shortening
1/3 cup powdered sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
COATING
6 oz. yellow candy melts
2 oz. white candy melts
Directions:
- Bake cake mix according to package directions adding the extra vanilla into the mix along with the other liquid ingredients. When completely cool, crumble into a large bowl and mix with marshmallow cream until well blended (and hand mixer gets the job done).
- Using a cookie scoop form the cake balls and hollow out the center with your finger. Keep about the amount of six cake balls of dough aside. Place on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet and freeze for at least 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, make the cream filling. Dissolve salt in very hot water and set aside to cool. Whip marshmallow cream, shortening, powdered sugar and vanilla until fluffy. When cool, add salt water and whip to combine. Place cream in a zip top bag and refrigerate until ready to use.
- Snip the corner of the bag so you can pipe into the hollow balls. Remove balls from freezer and fill each with cream. Take small amounts of the leftover dough that didn’t get frozen and smooth over top to enclose cream completely inside ball. Place back into the freezer from an additional 20 minutes.
- When you are ready to dip. Place candy melts in a double boiler and stir until smooth. Dip each ball and when completely covered, allow excess to drip off and place back on parchment paper. Allow to harden and enjoy!
Source: Adapted from Crumbs and Chaos.
18 comments
These are awesome! I used to lovvvve Twinkies as a kid, but haven’t had one in years. I’m dying to try these. :)
I love truffles!! These look yummy!
I was thinking you actually turned the twinkies into crumbs and made cake balls, but this version is great because of Twinkies no longer being made.
Obsessed! You are a genius. I’ve been so sad with all the twinkles off the shelves, these look awesome Erin
Wow! these look fantastic! What a great job creating a twinkie truffle!!!
These were so insanely delicious! Thank you again, Erin! The husband and I have been fighting over them!
These look delicious! Great idea. These would disappear very quickly at a tailgate.
Whaaat?! These are SO cool! I love that they actually have cream filling inside. So perfect! I want eighteen.
Love these, Erin! Perfect little bites of twinkie goodness :)
This actually sounds way better than the original twinkie to me. Love it!
omg soooo smart!!! I looove how you incorporated the cream!
I totally thought these were actual cut-up Twinkes before I read the recipe instructions. Awesome!!
Nope, I went all out! I just put a picture of a halved twinkie next to them so you can see the similarity :-)
You are on quite an inventive roll lately! These looks soooo good!!!
Such a cute idea!
Whoa. I would definitely choose these over a twinkie any day! Bonus that they’re made from real ingredients!
One word. AMAZING!!
Holy GEEZ, Friday just got a whole lot better!