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    Hostess at Home - Easier Than You Think

    By CaseyBarber  |  Posted November 16, 2012  |  Clifton, New Jersey
     

    CNN PRODUCER NOTE     CaseyBarber, a food writer in Clifton, New Jersey, says many Hostess products and their associated feelings of nostalgia are easy to conjure up in a home kitchen, but there's one thing she's never been able to replicate: 'There's just a fakeness about them, a teeth rattling extra super-sugaryness that comes with the high fructose corn syrup that you're not going to get if you make a Twinkie or Devil Dog at home.'

    She made these raspberry zingers -- a snack cake sold under both the Dolly Madison and Hostess brand names -- in October. The recipe is in her forthcoming book, "Classic Snacks Made from Scratch."
    - dsashin, CNN iReport producer

    As the author of the upcoming cookbook Classic Snacks Made from Scratch, featuring homemade versions of everything from Twinkies to Zingers to Drake's fruit pies, I've suddenly become the unofficial grief counselor for friends mourning Hostess and wanting to make their own snacks to assuage the loss.

    My advice, after making 70 different types of nostalgic treats, is this: if you're attempting homemade Hostess treats for the first time, don't sweat the specialty pans. Sure, Twinkies and Devil Dogs look great when made in a custom canoe pan, but they can be cut to fit from the loaf pans you've got rattling around your cupboard or even baked in a plain old muffin tin if you're desperate. (Sno-Balls, in fact, are nothing but regular Hostess Cupcakes turned upside-down and covered in marshmallow.) And it's the taste that counts the most, right? Save your money for a candy thermometer: it's crucial for making the pillowy boiled-sugar whipped frosting that fills these classic snacks.
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