Before you shell out big bucks for a wedding cake that only a third of your guests will eat, consider the Recession Bakery and Chocolate Shoppe, AKA your local gas station! Hostess snack cakes have really come a long way. Well, OK, they haven’t, but hot DAMN do those things taste good.
Here are a few of this season’s yummiest styles…
This beaut is comprised of Twinkies, Cup Cakes, Ding Dongs, Ho Hos, Suzy Q’s, Sno Balls and Mini Muffins. It’s my drunk fantasies come true!
Feeling formal? I recommend the Ding Dong Decadence, pictured left. She looks fantastic when served on a polished silver tray. Or perhaps you’re keeping things a little more low-key? Try the Tasty Twinkie Tower, featuring adorable, edible and true-to-life Twinkie Toppers! (Note: “Cake Cummerbund” Bows cost extra.)
This version follows the KISS principle. Why bother stacking and shaping a fancy cake out of individual snacks when you could just unwrap-and-display? Takes no time at all! And yet, equally as delicious.
via: Hostess Cake Recipes!
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You have to admit that the Twinkie bride and groom are adorable, though.
Yum! I love those Hostess cupcakes with the curl of icing on top, and those Twinkie toppers are ridiculously cute.
Traditionally, the bride and groom are supposed to keep a piece of their wedding cake and eat it on their first anniversary. I assume this tradition started after the invention of the electric freezer. With a cake like this, you don’t even have to wrap that slice, much less freeze it! Just leave that twinkie on the counter, wipe off the dust, and you’re good to go!
that tradition is british, where wedding cakes are usually dense dark fruit cakes and do last for several years without freezing or refridgeration.
Are those really “recipes”?
I like the mixed one at the top. Each guest can pick their favorite. Besides, the idea of $400 (easily) and up for a cake just makes me gag.
the top one looks sooo delicious! i hope theres a real cake on the inside too.
@jesi The mini muffins seem like a weird touch.
I bet they taste better than real wedding cakes. Most of them are nast. And honestly, they don’t look terrible all put together.
Alison: Traditionally wedding cakes were made of rich fruit cake. If you feed them brandy they last pretty much forever, even without freezing.
I kind of like the first one, but there’s no way I could bring myself to have it at my wedding.
I’m pretty partial to the lighter “bride & groom” on the black and white “formal” cake myself!
So glad someone else noticed that! So cute! And economical [:
@Yuan Chengzhi yeah, the muffins do not belong.
Why is the topper on the light and dark ding dong cake made out of two lighters? Is this a reception for some potheads? Were they blazing a doob while they thought this masterpiece up?
I sure hope so!! Wish I would have thought of that!!
these are serious wedding cakes??? peoplr paid other people to stack twinkies on top of one another and say ta da?
I had a donut cake at my wedding lunch (before the ceremony; we also had pizza and salad) and cobbler for the dessert at dinner. Nobody missed the nasty dry white cake and I didn’t have to worry about some disaster befalling the carefully contrived contraption that is most ‘real’ cakes.
That is what awesome looks and tastes like.
Frost it all and cut it like a normal cake and nobody will know…
OMG, I can hear Billy Idol singing “White Trash Wedding.”
The real punchline is in the story on the Hostess website (linked at the bottom of the post). That gorgeous first cake – which I am totally using at the next possible excuse, probably an office party – was actually put together by a chef instructor at Culinary Institute of America, for his own wedding. How cool is that?
A good friend of mine got married last year after having to endure being the cake cutter at another wedding a year before. People were so picky about their own indivvy slices that she just didn’t want to deal with it. Had a 4-story “cake” made entirely of cupcakes. Red Velvet, Vanilla, Chocolate and Carrot Cake. Everyone got something they liked. No muss, no fuss. It actually ended up looking really great, just made fresh at the local grocery store in Fargo. Plus leftovers were easy…who doesn’t like bringing home cupcakes?? I thought it was weird at first but very creative in its setup and worked out amazingly well.
omg i would LOVE to have ANY of those cakes!p.s-@ladyK2004,omg that would be so awesome!
Best wedding cake idea EVAR! Who doesn’t love Hostess Twinkies/Cupcakes/Dingdongs?