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As a lifelong Hostess Cupcake devotee, when Chocolate Cake Twinkies hit the market earlier this year, my first response was “Stay in your lane, Twinkies!” <\/p>\n
I just didn’t think this flavor swinger\u2019s club was a good idea. The \u201cgolden\u201d iterations of Cupcake were just Twinkie knockoffs to me. Any other flavor in the universe is fair game for either product, but chocolate belongs to Cupcake and vanilla is Twinkies, in my mind.<\/p>\n
Chocolate Peanut Butter Twinkies has softened that stance just a bit.<\/p>\n
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(I\u2019m at my mother\u2019s house \u2013 everything here is quilted. If I leave this Twinkie unattended, it will self-quilt.)<\/p>\n
On opening the individually-wrapped cakes, the aroma that greeted me was all cocoa. Dark, rich cocoa. No peanut at all. Interesting, but it didn\u2019t put me off.<\/p>\n
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Next – the grease test. One Twinkie on a paper napkin for 15 minutes. I find modern Twinkies much oilier than when I was a child. Maybe they always left a shiny slick and I only notice it now as an adult who struggles to fit into the same pants I wore last year. But these Twinkies felt less greasy, and left a sheen so subtle my camera couldn’t capture it. Definitely a plus.<\/p>\n
Like the scent, my first bite was 100 percent cocoa. It almost overwhelmed the peanut butter, which I picked up on increasingly with each bite. I was expecting the teeth-achingly-sweet peanut butter buttercream filling that seems to be the default recently, but Hostess got it right. There’s some sugar, but for the most part, they let the peanut butter be itself. PB is a perfect taste that doesn’t need a lot of window dressing, in my opinion. The texture here is closer to a fluffy frosting than the usual PB thickness. <\/p>\n
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The cake was much better than I expected – a moist, velvety, deep chocolate. Very much like the Hostess Cupcakes I adore – which begged the question: why is this a Twinkie and not a Hostess Cupcake? With a big gob of filling in the center and slab of PB icing on top, the flavor may have taken more of a front seat than in the Twinkie. Or – why not this filling with the usual golden Twinkie cake? Have chocolate and peanut butter become so synonymous that we can’t partner them with other flavors? <\/p>\n
Overall, I enjoyed these very much, and would buy them again, but might have been in rapturous love had it been a Hostess Cupcake. That\u2019s just my cupcakes bias. <\/p>\n
(Nutrition Facts – 2 cakes \u2013 260 calories, 80 calories from fat, 9 grams of fat, 3.5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 10 milligrams of cholesterol, 370 milligrams of sodium, 42 grams of carbohydrates, 2 grams of dietary fiber, 28 grams of sugar, and 3 grams of protein..)<\/small><\/p>\n
Purchased Price:<\/b> $2.50
\nSize:<\/b> 10-pack box
\nPurchased at:<\/b> Walmart
\nRating:<\/b> 9 out of 10
\nPros:<\/b> Lovely not-too-sweet peanut butter filling. Hostess Cupcake-y cake. Less grease!
\nCons:<\/b> Why isn\u2019t this a Hostess Cupcake? Needs a PB icing and squiggle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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