Chocolate Twinkies

Submitted by Kovie

"This is a lot like Hostess cupcakes. It is fun to see the surprise on faces when they bite into one for the first time. I get many requests for this. I found this recipe in the St Peters Lutheran Church of Columbus , IN, cookbook."

 

• Ready In: 50mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Yields: 12 cup cakes

ingredients

• 1 box chocolate cake mix
• 78.78 ml evaporated milk
• 118.29 ml sugar
• 2.46 ml vanilla
• 157.80 ml Crisco (white)
• 0.25 ml salt
• 73.94 ml powdered sugar
• chocolate frosting

directions

1. Bake your favorite chocolate cupcakes, cool completely.
2. Beat remaining ingredients with electric mixer on highest speed for 5 minutes or more.
3. Add 5 tbsp powdered sugar.
4. Beat until mixed in well.
5. Use a medium tip (for cake decorating) to make a hole in the top of the cupcake and push some of the filling inside.
6. Frost with chocolate frosting.