Description
These look like Twinkies®, but taste way better than the real deal…and they’re better cold/frozen!
Ingredients
- 4 eggs
- ½ cup butter, melted and cooled to lukewarm
- 1 cup water
- 1 (5.1 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding mix
- 1 (18.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix
- ½ cup butter, room temperature
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, room temperature
- 5 cups confectioners’ sugar, sifted
- 1 (8 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 10×15 inch jelly roll pans.
- Beat the eggs until combined; stir in the melted butter. Add the water
- pudding mix
- and yellow cake mix
- stirring well to combine. The batter will be very thick. Divide the batter between the prepared pans
- spreading it evenly.
- Bake until the cakes spring back when pressed lightly with a finger or a tester comes out clean
- 15 to 20 minutes. Cool completely on wire racks.
- To make the filling
- combine the room-temperature butter
- cream cheese
- and confectioners’ sugar. Beat until smooth. Stir in the whipped topping and vanilla extract.
- When the cakes are cool
- spread the filling mixture on top of one cake layer. Place the second cake layer on top of the first
- and cut into bars. Wrap each bar in plastic wrap and store in the freezer.
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 20 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 40 mins
Servings: 25