Twinkies *shudder* (Re: [Sca-cooks] sponge cake and such)

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

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> Actually, some relative of mine used to make faux twinkies (or maybe she just spoke of having seen the recipe in some magazine -- Southern Living?) involving some kind of sponge cake cut into rectangular sandwich shapes, and filled with a firm pseudo-buttercream of confectioners' sugar and vegetable shortening.
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> Or was it lard? ;-)
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> Adamantius

Long ago in a former life, when I worked in a library, there was a
cookbook that came across the new arrivals/returns desk which purported
to have the recipes and methods by which one could manufacture such things
as Twinkies at home.

I do not remember the title.

Margaret