Fathers Day Sweets

Happy Monday! I hope you all had a lovely weekend and spoiled all the wonderful dads in your life! Today I am going to share a recipe from Joy the Baker that I made for my papa last night. When he told me he wanted twinkies I was quite offended. I had offered to make him any dessert he wanted and he said he wanted twinkies!? That is typical dad, so twinkies is what he wanted and twinkies was what he would get. After searching the internet I came across this delicious recipe and started making my homemade fathers day dessert. The outcome was wonderful and the family couldn't stop talking about it. And the best part... it was quite easy to make!

Twinkie

2 cups all-purpose flour

3 teaspoons baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

10 Tablespoons unsalted butter, softened

1 cup sugar

2 large eggs

1  teaspoon vanilla extract

1/8 teaspoon almond extract (optional)

1 cup milk

Put a rack in the center of the oven and preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Sift together flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl.  Set aside.

Beat together butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes.  Beat in eggs one at a time, beating for 1 minute in between each addition.  Beat in vanilla and almond extract.  Reduce speed to low and add flour mixture alternately with the milk in 3 batches, beginning and ending with the flour mixture and beating until just incorporated.

Spray prepared Twinkie tins with nonstick spray and divide the batter between the cups.  Bake at 350 for 15 minutes, or until the cakes are just slightly golden and a pick inserted in the center of the cakes comes out clean.  Remove from the oven and let cool completely before filling with marshmallow cream.

Twinkie Cream

recipe from Todd Wilbur

2 teaspoons very hot water

1/4 teaspoon salt

2 cups marshmallow cream (one 7-ounce jar)

1/2 cup shortening

1/3 cup powdered sugar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Combine the salt and the how water in a small bowl and mix until the salt is dissolved.  Let the mixture cool.

Combine the marshmallow cream, shortening, powdered sugar and vanilla extract in a medium sized bowl and beat with an electric mixer until fluffy.

Add the salt solution to the filling and beat to combine.

Next pipe the mixture into the cakes. Joy uses a pastry bag but I had to get creative. I had a medicine syringe and that worked just fine. Now its time to eat! Add some strawberries like I did or package them up in bags for friends. Just make sure you make enough, everyone will want seconds!

To find more delicious desserts from Joy the Baker click here.