I am slightly obsessed with owls these days, ever since decorating my baby’s nursery in owl theme. So when planning my annual Halloween party, I decided that I had to have owl cupcakes. Here’s the thing, I don’t bake. (It’s just not pretty.) So I knew I would need a shortcut. My first thought was Hostess Cupcakes!
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I had everything planned out perfectly for the party, but don’t you know that when I headed off to the store in search of Hostess Cupcakes (you know, the ones with the white swirl down the middle) the store was out. There was a spot for them, but someone had cleaned them out. Grrrr! So I settled on the next best thing – Ding Dongs!
I am pleased to announce, the result is purely adorable. See for yourself!
Want to make these yourself? They are so easy, here’s what you need.
- Hostess Cakes
- Oreos
- M&Ms (brown)
- Candy Corn
- Icing
Then simply half your Oreos, use the icing as glue and ensemble. That’s my kind of dessert.
So, what did my partygoers think of my Halloween Owl Cupcakes?! They were a hit! I was assured that they were as tasty as they were cute. And you know what, I agree – they were yum!
If you are planning a Halloween party, or perhaps just an owl party, I highly recommend adding this simple treat to your menu. They make quite an impact on a desert table plus they are easy and quick, which is the name of the game.
Happy Halloween!
apple blossom says
ding dongs are most wonderful
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Debra Hall says
as a kid i would buy a small bottle of coke and hostess cherry pie for 25 cents
Heather S says
My favorite Hostess snake cake memory is of sharing ding dongs for the first time with my kiddos! They we’re instantly in love! 🙂
Leslie says
My favorite Hostess cake memory was actually peeling off the chocolate frosting layer from the cupcakes and eating that by itself. Then it was on to the cupcake!
Kim Reid says
I carried Hostess chocolate cupcakes in my lunch as a teenager – Thanks!
keely hostetter says
I mostly remember eating them for lunch, in high school. I always get excited about chocolate:)
Karen Glatt says
I remember that when I was a kid if I was not having a good day my mom would have my favorite treat when I got home- A Twinkie! I love the creamy filling and the yellow cake outside. It seemed to make me feel so much better!
Auri Lae says
We would freeze Ding Dongs during the summer when I was little – they were (in my opinion) even better than ice cream!
maria says
My fave Hostess memory would be twinkies! Every day in school, that was my after-lunch treat. I totally looked forward to those!
betty says
Loved Hostess ding dongs. and they traveled well in a school lunch
Heidi says
We didn’t get to eat these very often, but when we did, only a golden twinkie would do. Nothing like a summer day, a picnic outside, and a twinkie to end it all. So much fun!
Susan H. says
Don’t have any special memories. Just remember loving the Ding Dongs. Love the cream in the center.
Janet F says
My favorite Hostess memory is eating a creme filled Hostess Chocolate cupcake for the first time.
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Debra F says
I remember special treats of Pink Snowballs!
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Shawn says
Having Ding Dongs when I would come home from school for a snack.
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Susan C says
My dad would bring home Ding Dong’s once a month for a special treat if we had been good.
Eve says
I remember my mom would buy hotess twinkies for lunch for me and my sisters and it would be gone a couple days later
Patricia Wojnar Crowley says
I used to love having ho ho’s as an after school snack! We rarely had them!
Christine says
My mom used to buy Hostess snack cakes when I was a child. I always looked forward to coming home from school & having a Hostess treat.
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Renee G says
I remember walking to the grocery store with my mom and having her buy a special hostess treat for me. (Usually ding dongs.)
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Amanda K. says
I remember coming home from school and Mom having a glass of milk and Hostess snack out before we did our homework.
Tari Lawson says
I remember eating HoHo’s by peeling off the chocolate then licking out the cream before eating the cake. Yum!
Maureen says
In grade school sometimes my mother would put a HO HO in the lunch. We would peel off the chocolate icing and then put the broken up icing in with the cream after we had unrolled it and then roll it back up and eat it.
Michelle Dehowy says
I love Hostess Cupcakes. The decadent frosting and creme-filled core. Yum!
Janet W. says
I remember letting my daughter eat a Hostess Cupcake when she got home from school. She would be so excited to get one! Now I would get to see my grandson enjoy a Hostess product. We’re a family that loves desserts!
debbie says
I remember it was such a treat to find a hostess twinkie in my lunch that my mother packed for me.
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Theron Willis says
Frozen Twinkies fresh from the freezer. A fond childhood memory.
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Sarah Hall says
Sharing my Hostess cupcakes with my friends at lunch in high school. We all loved them.
Leslie J says
Back in high school we actually had a hostess cake food fight! Twinkies and ding dongs EVERYWHERE — that cream filling is NOT easy to get out of overhairsprayed hair!
Mallory Bailey says
It was always a special treat to open up my brown bag in the school cafeteria and see one of the Hostess desserts.
Linda Lansford says
I remember twinkies most
Kiara says
I remember my mom putting Hostess chocolate cupcakes in my lunch for school.
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Donna L says
I have always liked the Donettes.
Jessie C. says
I remember me and my sisters had ding dongs as after school snacks.
beth shepherd says
I once smashed a ding dong in my mom’s face when I got upset at her when I was 9. Its funny now but at the time I took off runnin. I didnt get in trouble as she laughed – thankfully.
renee walters says
I remember my Mother putting Hostess Ding Dongs in my lunch for school.
DeeAnn S says
Sno Balls were (and still are!) my favorite. I’d slowly take off the coconut fluff covering, eat the chocolate cake from the bottom, scoop out the cream, then eat the rest of the chocolate cake. When that was all done I’d wad the coconut fluff into a ball and take big bites from it. I can still feel that squishy sensation in my mouth! lol
Sally Knott says
My daughter loves owls. I could make these for her next birthday
Cody Anderson says
I remember every Saturday after finishing my chores my mom would give me a Ding Dong.
Kristy Thiel says
I still remember trying hohos with my sister!
Charlotte Padgett says
I loved twinkies and never could get enough of them.
Christine says
My favorite Hostess cake memory – having a Ding Dong for an after school snack
Carly says
I use to eat a Hostess treat every day for lunch when I was a kid.
Mary Calabrese says
I remember getting cherry pies and just loving them!
Stephanie Larison says
I remember opening my lunch box when I was in school and my mom would always leave a hostess snack in there for me.
Ttrockwood says
My sister and i would get the orange cupcakes on special occasions with my grandma- she got one and my sister and i split the second one in the package in half
Wendy says
I remember going to visit my grandparents and every trip my dad would stop at a certain town and we would get Hostess Suzie Q’s… it’s a great memory.
Cindy Merrill says
I remember sharing a hostess cupcake with my first “crush”: Jason, I was 8 and he was 10. I think he liked the cupcake more than he liked me, however.
ELIZABETH C. says
I REMEMBER MY DAD BUYING TWINKIES AND DING DONGS & ALWAYS GIVING MY SISTER & I.
Valerie Taylor Mabrey says
my dad letting me get cupcakes at the grocery
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Kyl Neusch says
a treat after class
Amy H says
I would eat the filling first then the cake.
Tara says
My grandma would always have hostess cakes for us to eat as a snack after school.
Stephanie Grant says
Making chocolate covered twinkies for Christmas 🙂
dani marie says
just eating them after school. my treat for surviving the day.
Caryn S says
I remember getting to try my first one at a friend’s house after school when I was in grade school
Sylvia says
we would always go to the wonder bread store and stock up on pies, twinkies, and other goodies for snacks!
Robin says
I remember trying a twinkie the first time after my baseball game when I was a kid
Ani says
I remember a family friend giving me a huge bag full of hostess snack cakes for my birthday when I was a kid. I was in heaven.
Karen Gonyea says
I remember them being special treats between my grandfather and I 🙂
Marie Darrer says
I remember having them while we were driving to Niagara falls and we had to pull into a rest area to wash our hands afterward….baby wipes were not common back then!
Desiree Dunbar says
I remember eating and loving Pink Snowballs when I was little.
Diane Baum says
My 1st memory as a kid, being in 7th heavan cause I a pink coconut “snowball” cupcake in my school lunch bag!
Steve H says
enjoyed the surprise of what hostess snack cake my mom had packed in my school lunch
Marie C says
I don’t have a memory because mom didn’t buy Hostess. But there is one memory when my son was in school and he had to make a cell. He’s very creative and decided he wanted to make it edible! So he sunk every cell part into clear gelatin. The Hostess Twinkie gave him a fit because it wanted to float.
Hesper Fry says
My mom would always put them in my lunch
Belinda Shaw says
I always enjoyed Hostess after school with grape juice.
Charlene says
My Mom always put a Hostess Twinkie in my lunch everyday at school 🙂
Annemarie Z. says
I remember getting a Hostess treat as a snack at my aunt’s house!
Susan Chester says
When my mom worked nights she would leave me a Hostess Fruit Pie on the table to hold me over until she woke up:)
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Sandy V. says
My memory is eating Hostess fruit Pies on vacation trips in the car.
melina r says
I love hostess chocolate cup cakes, I enjoy them with my kids.
Susan Smith says
My mom would always put Twinkies in my lunch and the kids would try to get me to trade them. I never did.
Mary Cloud says
My grandpa buying me twinkies when I was a little girl
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rochelle johnson says
zingers
rochelle johnson says
zingers, i would get them on all my school field trips
Pauline M says
I remember that we had a discount hostess store near our home and it was always a happy day when my mom would bring home boxes of twinkees for my brothers and sisters and of course me! They would be wiped out within a day!
Erica C. says
I love the donettes!
Kayla says
My mom used to pack them in my lunch!
Gianna says
Getting them for my dad because he liked them.
Miz Vickik says
I remember loving Twinkies as a kid!
Georgie C says
THe time we’d make a trip to the Thrift store and got a whole big bag of twinkies, ding dongs and pies… yummmmm!
Emily says
I remember getting these as treats after girl scouts
Angela Neynaber says
i remember sneaking them after school.
Mya Murphy says
Sharing one with my hubby and getting kinda frisky with the frosting… lol
Leslie L. Stanziani says
I remember breaking the cupcakes in half to get to all the frosting inside first.Then I would eat all the outside frosting and then the cake.Thanks!
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Lisa Garner says
I loved Sno Balls and my mother would put them in my stocking each year as a special treat.
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Kathlyne says
I didn’t get to eat these much, so it was a real treat when I got them.
Jennifer Peaslee says
I remember loving them as a kid. They were more expensive than other brands, so we didn’t get them too much. But when we did get them they always went FAST, lol. jenniferpeaslee at gmail dot com
jenny says
my favorite memory of hostess is trying twinkles for the first time. It was yummy!
Chrissy Nestor says
I loved eating the Cupcakes when i was a kid, and I still love them!
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Tanya White says
Twinkies in my lunch box everyday… oh I how I miss those days!
Theresa H says
eating the frosting off the cakes first
amy deeter says
i remember when my mom would put them in my lunch box
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Terry Cross says
I remember having Twinkies as a special treat when I was a child
Ed Nemmers says
As a child, we would have as a treat Hostess Ho-Hos and love unwrapping the foil before devouring!
Natalie Ginnow says
I love Hostess Chocolate Cupcakes and Hostess Doughnuts
Tiffany Hoyt says
My dad would get me Twinkies. 🙂
Tina W says
My favorite memory is in my mid twenties I once stayed to do a double shift at the hospital I worked at. I was off the next day, so I stopped at a convenience store and bought myself a package of ding dongs. I realized I had no beer at home so I also grabbed a 6pack. The look the cashier gave me when he commented on my “healthy breakfast” still makes me laugh.
Katherine says
after the annual state testing in sixth grade, our teacher gave us all a pack of zingers
kathy pease says
i remember my uncle worked for hostess and use to give my brother and i boxes of stuff that was expiring..lol
lknott says
Hostess was an unusal treat when I growing up! It was so surprising when we got them they were treated with hallowed respect. You each got one and treasured it!!
susan smoaks says
i remember always have hostess snack cakes at Bible school when I was growing up!
Robert Pyszk says
My favorite memory was eating Twinkies when I was a kid. You know ? Back in the day when there was 3x the filling and it was 2x as big? 😉
Charity S says
Eating Twinkies at my nana’s house in the summer.
Calli says
I loved finding a pack of twinkies tucked in the back of the car for a long road trip as a child!
Breanne says
Eating twinkies at my grandma’s house
mary gardner says
i remember having twinkies in my lunch box on fridays! i was always so excited!
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Jamie Martin says
Mailed a box to Hostess Cupcakes to my lady who was too sick to get them herself.
Melanie Montgomery says
The first time I tried chocolate twinkies
Jaclyn Reynolds says
Loved those Hostess Cupcake as a child!
Laurie Emerson says
My husband knew how much I loved Twinkies and on a Valentine’s Day he gave me one with a big paper Valentine heart on the top. I went to break it in half to share with him and there inside was a diamond ring. I loved the way he proposed to me with my favorite sweet treat!
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shirley zolenski says
My dad taking one to work everyday but saying he was too full to eat it and bringing it home to us kids
Lucy Schwartz says
Yeah Twinkies and tey were so good and a treat as they were ..and then someone told me to eat one out of the Freezer.YUM.
Suzanne M says
I remember eating Twinkies with my Grandmother when I was a child and staying at her house.
Sand says
I remember my mom packing me Hostess cupcakes in my lunch as a kid.
Kassondra Flores says
Twinkie’s were my go to snack but what I love the most about hostess was their commercials “where the cream filling?” Lol
Christian Alejandro N. says
Hostess Cupcake are the best!
Jacob LaFountaine says
Your first twinkie
Betty C says
My dad always had Twinkies and Cupcakes to take to work for lunch. It was a real treat when he shared them with me.
Vivi says
How cute and super easy!!! My daughter and son are going to love making and eating these!!
Dawn Lopez says
Oh my goodness those are so adorable! Thanks for the fun recipe idea.. I love no bake!
Richard Hicks says
These are the cutest I have seen and so simple!
Mimi Williams says
These are the cutest little treats! I would make these anytime!