Chocolate Twinkies With Homemade Filling

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1 (18 ounce) box chocolate cake mix
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups milk
• 3 1/2 ounces instant chocolate pudding mix
• 2 tablespoons unbleached all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 4 tablespoons salted butter
• 4 tablespoons shortening
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1 dash salt (optional)

Recipe

• 1 cake:.
• 2 mix cake mix, eggs, milk and pudding together.
• 3 fill the canoe wells and bake according to the cupcake directions on the cake mix box.
• 4 remove pan from oven and let cool for 5 minute.
• 5 using flexible spatula, gently remove each cake and cool flat side down on rack until completely cool.
• 6 in meantime, prepar snack cake filling.
• 7 filling:.
• 8 in small saucepan cook flour and milk over medium heat until paste forms.
• 9 stir constantly and do not allow mixture to brown.
• 10 remove from heat and cool for 1 minute.
• 11 add vanilla and stir until smooth.
• 12 press a piece of plastic wrap down on surface of the paste to avoid forming a skin and set aside to cool completely.
• 13 in bowl of mixer beat butter, shortening and sugar until fluffy, scraping bowl to fully incorporate ingredients.
• 14 add cooled flour/milk mixture and continue to beat 5 minutes on medium-high speed until smooth and creamy.
• 15 to fill snack cakes:.
• 16 place about 1 cup of filling into a clean pastry bag fitted with round pastry tube.
• 17 gently insert tube into underside of cake, about halfway through the cake.
• 18 using gentle pressure, squeeze a small amount of filling into cake.
• 19 you'll feel the cake expand under your fingers.
• 20 do not overfill, or the cake will burst.
• 21 repeat for a total of 3 times (different areas) per cake.
• 22 store cakes well covered at room temperature.