Homemade Ding Dongs Recipe
What You'll Need
- One half cup butter, room temperature
- One cup Imperial Sugar Extra Fine Granulated Sugar
- Four eggs
- One half cups all purpose flour*
- One teaspoon baking soda
- One half cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- One cup buttermilk
- 3.5 ounces marshmallow creme
- Three tablespoons butter, room temperature
- One half cup Imperial Sugar Confectioners Powdered Sugar
- One half teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)
- One half cups heavy cream
- One half cups semisweet chocolate chips
Chocolate cake
Marshmallow filling
Ganache
How to Make It
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Line a 13x9-inch baking pan with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a mixing bowl, beat One half cup butter with One cup granulated sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs, one at a time mixing well after each addition.
- Scrape the sides of the bowl as you mix.
- In a separate bowl combine flour, cocoa powder and baking soda.
- Add flour mixture to sugar/butter mixture, alternating with buttermilk.
- Pour chocolate cake batter into prepared pan and bake in preheated oven for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean.
- Remove cake from oven and cool completely on a wire rack.
- Once cake is cooled, make marshmallow filling.
- Marshmallow filling: Place marshmallow creme and Three tablespoons of butter in mixing bowl.
- Beat on medium-high speed until smooth.
- Stir in vanilla extract and powdered sugar, mixing well until light and fluffy.
- With a 2-3 inch biscuit cutter, cut cake disks out of cooled cake. Set aside to fill.
- To fill snack cakes, cut a cone on top of each cake and remove it.
- Add about 1-2 teaspoons of filling to center and cover with half of cut-out cone.
- Do the same with remaining snack cakes.
- Once all snack cakes are filled, make ganache.
- Ganache: In a saucepan bring heavy cream to a boil over medium-high heat.
- In a heatproof bowl, pour boiling cream onto chocolate.
- Whisk until smooth and the chocolate is melted.
- Set aside to cool slightly.
- Place cut out snack cakes on a wire rack set over a rimmed baking sheet covered in wax or parchment paper for easy clean up.
- With a spoon cover each cake in ganache.
- Leave to cool completely. Once chocolate is cooled and set, invert the snack cakes and pour ganache over bottoms.
- With the help of a pastry brush, cover any remaining uncoated areas.
- Leave at room temperature for ganache to set completely before serving.