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Twinkie: photo of the dish
Illustrative photo: Larry D. Moore — CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Snacks & baking

Twinkie

A small elongated American sponge cake with a soft texture, filled with very sweet vanilla cream. It has been a popular mass-produced pastry in the United States since the 1930s.

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Ingredients

Ingredients

Spices & seasoning

Nutrition facts

291 kcal per serving

Protein
5 g
Carbohydrates
34.6 g
of which sugars
25.7 g
Fat
14.3 g

Ecomely’s estimate, calculated from the ingredients with the ANSES Ciqual food composition table, excluding sides and seasoning added to taste.

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 180 °C and butter a loaf tin or elongated éclair moulds.
  2. Whisk the eggs and sugar for 5 minutes, until the mixture turns pale and doubles in volume.
  3. Fold in the sifted flour, baking powder and salt, then the melted butter, vanilla and milk, gently.
  4. Pour the batter into the tin and bake for 12 to 15 minutes, until a skewer comes out dry.
  5. Leave to cool completely on a wire rack.
  6. Whip the cream with the icing sugar, cut the cakes lengthwise and fill them with cream before serving.

Variations and tips

Homemade vanilla version. Add 1 teaspoon of vanilla to the cream for a more pronounced flavour.

More ideas

Original Ecomely recipe.