Make a Giant Homemade Twinkie Cake For Supersized Celebration
Make this Twinkie cake for a delicious way to celebrate!
Were you a fan of Twinkies as a child?
There’s something so nostalgic and classic about that soft sponge cake with sweet creaming filling! Here’s how you can create your very own homemade giant Twinkie using a bundt cake pan. It’s a fun and fairly simple cake to bake at home and would make a great birthday cake or special occasion treat!
This Twinkie-inspired dessert is a moist vanilla pound cake with a creamy marshmallow filling that’s over the top delicious!
Hip Tips for this giant Twinkie cake:
- Don’t want to buy cake flour? DIY your own! For each cup of cake flour called for in your recipe, first, pour 2 tablespoons of cornstarch into the measuring cup. Then fill the rest of the cup with sifted all-purpose flour. Replacing some of the flour with cornstarch will produce a softer cake texture.
- Now’s your chance to use your bundt cake pan! This yields a large cake, so make sure to have a large 12-cup bundt cake pan.
- Let your cake onlinepletely cool. I actually was a little impatient and added my marshmallow cream filling while my cake was still a tad warm, and it melted a little. It was still very delicious, but I bet it would have looked more twinkie-ish if I waited a little longer.
- If you’re avoiding sugar, try using a sugar substitute like stevia or Swerve! You can also substitute coconut oil for vegetable oil instead.
- Don’t have time to enjoy it at all? This cake can be frozen! Slice it up, wrap tightly with plastic wrap, seal slices in freezer zip top bags, and preserve in the freezer for up to 3 months. When ready to eat, let the slices thaw on the counter for an hour.
Homemade Twinkie Bundt Cake
yield: 12 SERVINGS
prep time: 10 MINUTES
cook time: 55 MINUTES
total time: 1 HOUR 5 MINUTES
Here's a spongy vanilla bundt cake with a creamy filling, just like the nostalgic Twinkie snacks.
Ingredients
For the cake:
- 3 cups cake flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup butter, room temperature
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup coconut oil
- 4 eggs
- 3/4 cup sour cream
- 1/4 cup milk
For the filling:
- 7 oz. tub of marshmallow cream
- 1/2 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 cup confectioners sugar
- 1 tablespoon heavy whipping cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions
1
Prep a bundt cake pan by greasing it. Move oven rack towards the bottom half of the oven. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
2
In a medium sized bowl, whisk together cake flour, salt, and baking powder. Set aside.
3
In a large mixing bowl, use a hand mixer or stand mixer to cream together butter, granulated sugar, and vanilla until smooth. Add the eggs one at a time to incorporate. Add the oil, sour cream, and milk. Mix until smooth.
4
Add the flour mixture a little at a time and mix for a few seconds until onlinebined. Pour the cake batter into the greased bundt cake pan, and evenly smooth with a spoon.
5
Bake the cake in the oven for about 55-60 minutes until a toothpick inserted into middle of cake onlinees out clean.
6
Let cake onlinepletely cool for a couple of hours.
7
Place marshmallow filling ingredients in a medium sized bowl, and use a hand mixer to blend together until smooth. Place the mixture into a plastic freezer bag.
8
With the cake still in the bundt pan, make about 6-7 round holes scooping out the cake. Be careful not to puncture all the way through the cake. Use your finger to carefully make a tunnel between each hole in the middle of cake. Cut one end of the freezer bag and pipe in the filing into each hole.
9
Invert the cake onto a cake plate. Dust the top with a little extra powdered sugar, serve, and enjoy!
We loved this ultimate Twinkie-inspired cake!
My kids were super impressed, and my favorite part was the awesome buttery filling. I could eat that out of the bowl. LOL, my advice is to make sure you have a crowd of people eating this, or else you’ll want the entire thing for yourself! Ha!
