When the news first broke of the possible closing of the doors at Hostess, makers of Wonder Bread and Hostess Twinkies, to name a few, people began hording remaining store supplies. Additionally online searches for twinkies and twinkie recipes spiked, as did the price of twinkies being sold on sites like ebay.
For a time it appeared that Hostess would survive after all as contract negotiations with workers resumed. With the final announcement that the company is going out of business, consumers are driving online searches up once again with questions like, how to make twinkies, and the best homemade twinkie recipes.
In an earlier article, we posted a recipe for homemade twinkies found online which reportedly combined the winning recipes from an annual competition for making your own twinkies. The recipe took the winning recipe for the cake part of the twinkie and combined it with the winner for the twinkie filling recipe.
Hostess has announced that there is a lot of interest in their products from their competition. As they proceed through their bankruptcy and liquidation, it is almost a certainty that the proprietary recipes, and the branding for products like Hostess Twinkies, Wonder Bread and other popular snack foods, will find their way to a manufacturer and back out on store shelves.
Fans of the twinkie and other hostess brands fear not. While the twinkies may had disappeared from store shelves for now, they will very likely return. In the meantime, take a look as some of the top online twinkie recipes and make your own.