The Giant Version of a Classic Childhood Snack: Ding Dong Cake
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2023
- This ding dong cake is like a giant version of the sweet snack cake! It's made with rich chocolate cake layered with a creamy filling and a chocolate ganache topping.
Recipe: sugarspunrun.com/ding-dong-cake/
Ingredients
Filling Base
1 cup granulated sugar (200g)
5 Tablespoons all-purpose flour (40g)
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup whole milk (236ml)
Cake
1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour (205g)
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed (200g)
1 cup granulated sugar (200g)
¾ cup natural cocoa powder (75g)
1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
¾ teaspoon salt
½ cup unsalted butter, melted (113g)
½ cup neutral cooking oil (118ml) (canola, vegetable, or avocado oil)
2 large eggs + 1 egg yolk, room temperature preferred
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup buttermilk, room temperature preferred (236ml)
½ cup hot coffee (118ml)
Filling
1 filling base (from above)
1 cup unsalted butter, softened (226g)
1 teaspoon clear vanilla extract (see note)
Ganache frosting
8 oz semi-sweet chocolate (226g)
1 cup heavy whipping cream (236ml)
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Instructions
See recipe link for full instructions.
Notes
Vanilla extract
I like to use clear vanilla in the filling because it keeps the filling pure white. It also lends itself to a slightly more authentic ding-dong flavor (which I suppose is artificial). You can absolutely substitute classic, real vanilla extract instead.
Storing
Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days. The filling is soft, if left in a warm environment for too long it could start to melt and the layers could slide.
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8 in the morning checking my cabinets to see if I have everything to make this now. 😂❤
🤣 I hope you love it! :)
It’s a favorite of mine ❤. I’d ordered one similar years ago for my birthday. Now I can use your recipe. Thank you.
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Same…. As I’m going to Walmart later …. I just need a few items !!!
I can tell already, even before making your "Ding-Dong" cake. It will be far better than the "original" version. Looks delicious!
I don't make cakes or pies, but I'd pay top money for one of these already baked. ⬆
Omg! Made this cake today, and it is delicious! Followed the recipe exactly. It was time-consuming, but totally worth it! I’ll definitely be making this again.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it so much! :)
THE only thing I've come up with for the TIME CONSUMING part of making home made is to measure the day before
and prepare the pans as well. At my age, it all gets overwhelming, cleaning up and putting things away..
@@lllowkee6533Yes, I kind of did that earlier this week when I made it again. I made the cake the night before, wrapped it tightly in plastic wrap after cooling, put it in the fridge, and did the rest the next day. It worked much better for me, not only time wise, but the filling and ganache were easier to apply, since the cake was cold from the fridge. Took it to work and everyone loved it.
I grew up calling them Ring Dings…ugh loved them
Me too!
There are both Ring Dings and Ding Dongs…2 different manufacturers. I’ve eaten them both.😊
Drakes makes Ring Dings- Hostess makes Ding Dongs
This cake is so absolutely amazing! I’ve made it once a few weeks back and today I’m making one for my wife to take to work for Valentines Day tomorrow! Definitely a once a month cake, I think! It’s fabulous! Moist! So full of flavor. I just can’t say enough about how delicious it is! ❤
I'm so glad you are enjoying it so much! :)
This flour frosting was almost the same as the original white frosting recipe I was given with the first RED VELVET RECIPE in in 1965.! When I showed it to my mother she said her oldest sister used to make similar flour icing in the 1930 s , it was the only ingredients they had. Sugar, flour, butter.
They didn’t even have cocoa until after WW II.
Enjoyed watching this show. ! Thanks .
You're welcome! Thanks for watching and sharing your story. It's always interesting to hear these kinds of things. I couldn't even imagine how it would be to only have sugar, flour, and butter. It's crazy! :)
We're so lucky , so far!!??
My family had molasses and honey during War II when sugar was rationed and scarce, esp in the Appalachian mountains .Mother said they were NEVER hungry as many were..bc they grew everything.
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I have read many times that ermine frosting was the OG with red velvet cake. Not sure when cream cheese frosting came to crash the party, but boy, she sure became popular with red velvet. On the rare occasion I make red velvet, I too go with the OG ermine frosting.
Same
You sold me! I love how you scrap the bowls, explain why you want, for example, room temp eggs, & you still keep it real! Looks delicious & I will try making this! Thank you from a new subscriber ;)
I can't imagine anyone not liking this! Chocolate, ermine frosting filling, ganache topping, what's not to love?
I make this ermine frosting for my salted peanut cake. Oddly enough, the recipe calls for almond flavoring in the frosting. Together with the peanut flavor of the cake, it’s a little slice of heaven. One of my most favorite cakes ever. Another is Kentucky Butter Cake.
New to your channel, but I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your style. Very clear, you explain what to know and do for each step and one can also clearly follow along visually. Thanks for this video!
Thank you so much for the kind words, so happy to have you here! ☺️
I am sure this will be amazing. My favorite frosting has always been ermine frosting. I like the texture when chilled and that it seems less sweet to me. Can't wait to give this a try.
I hope you love it! :)
Mercy Sakes Alive girl! That cake looks amazing. Thanks for sharing it with us 😊
Thank you for this "Ding-Dong" delicious recipe that I can't wait to try! Thanks for all you do for this channel!
I don’t eat them anymore, but ding dongs were always my favorite. I may have to make this “just to see if it tastes the same” 😅
This cake doesn't have all the additives and chemicals as real DING DONGS . Those things last for 20 years!!!!!!
You’ve basically made my *favorite* cake for *everything!* (minus the ganache.. I want all buttercream!!) Even the buttercream is basically how I’ve made mine for many decades now. Love*Love*Love it too❣️
YES! Found the perfect cake to make my guy for his birthday - you rock! Thank you!!! 💕💕💕
Sam, you are the cutest! When I was a kid, those lil chocolate cakes were called Ring Dings. This cake looks delicious and I’ll be sure to try my best to bake one for my spouses birthday. Boy will he be surprised! (assuming it comes out good). Feel free to make a Twinkie cake next. I’ll be looking forward to that.
I hope he loves it! :)
They were wrapped in *foil* too❣️
A Twinkie cake sounds amazing, and something that my husband would love!
Or as my 4 yr old used to call Ding Dong’s when he couldn’t’ remember the name, and it’s stuck since, Circle Weenies. That’s my boy! He’s 21 now and it’s just too good to pass up, lol.
Knowing I can have the ding-dong experience without the preservatives mucking the taste up sounds heavenly.
Definitely going to try.
Thank you!❤
Wow! Wow! Wow! I am in love with your videos. It started when I looked up a lemon blue berry cake recipe when I fell upon your recipe. It led me to your recipe for a lighter version of cream cheese frosting, to your fluffy lemon cake, to your lemon curd, to this ding dong cake and its ermine frosting. You are a wealth of information. You speak to the ingredients and methods of how they should be used and why. And, by the way, I LOVE LOVE LOVE how you always scrape every last bit out of bowls or pots. I do the same. Bonus.... I appreciate how you use a hand held mixer (primarily because I don't own a stand mixer.) Continue the good work. I wish you boundless success.
Fan for life,
Mara
Thank you so much, Mara! I am so grateful for your support and I am so happy to hear that you've enjoyed everything so much! :)
I’m from back east, NYC area. We had Drake’s cakes, and this snack was called a Ring Ding. There was a no-icing version called Yankee Doodle, my personal favorite. The rolled up version (Swiss cake) was a Yodel.
Ring Dings were better. I have only found them in one store where I live.
That cake looks absolutely delicious and equally important you did a superb job explaining each step in making it.
Thank you so much! I hope you love it. 😊
I am absolutely making this cake this weekend!! Thanks Sam!! You're the best!!!
Thank you! I hope you love it! :)
Thank you for sharing your Ding-Dong cake recipe 🤗
I super love deep dark chocolate cakes.
I would like to suggest that you use a damp towel on your countertop, and place your mixing bowl on top, so that when your mixing your ingredients, your bowl won’t be slipping and sliding on your counter.
Also if you place two pieces of parchment paper across your cake stand, then put your cake on top of the parchment paper. Then go ahead and put the icing on your cake. When you’re done just pull the two pieces of parchment paper out from underneath the cake. Your cake pan should be nice and icing free.
Thank you for the tips. :)
If the cake comes out of the oven too dry, sprinkle the cake layers with a light syrup. That gets a delicious moist cake. I'm such a chocolate lover, I would add one recipe of gnache on the cake, chill, then add a 2nd gnache and chill again. Ding Dongs don't have enough gnache.
This looks amazing! Can’t wait to try it!
Ok, I don’t remember how many holidays you said you were going to make this cake for, but I think I’m going to add on a few more!!! I can’t wait to make this cake!!! Thank you so much for this recipe!!! Have a great weekend!!!!!!!
This is definitely a great option! Have a great weekend! :)
Ding dongs were and still are my favorite! Love this idea of a cake form!
I hope you love it! :)
I've made this for my daughter's birthday. It was heavenly!
I'm so glad everyone enjoyed it! :)
A couple of tips:
1. Set your prepared cake pan under your dripping beater blades to catch the drips. (It's cake batter and it's going to end up there anyway.) Once you have filled your cake pans, use the bowl that you mixed the cake batter in, to catch the drips.
2. A long serrated knife (like a 12" bread knife) set on top of several craft sticks (tongue depressors) laid side-by-side and taped together with cello tape, will cut a cake layer level. Just stack the tongue depressors to the height you want, make two of them the same height, steady the knife on top of the two stacks and cut away. Cello tape is thin and won't tend to catch your knife like masking or painter's tape can. You can add or subtract sticks to change the height.
Great tips! I love the cake leveling idea! :)
I love all your explanations, thank you for always being so thorough. 😊😊💕💕
The classic DingDong in the foil wrapper is my favorite snack. In my sixty-plus years no other commercial snack has even gotten close to that perfect combination of ingredients. I would steal an entire box from my parent's store, go to the shed covering the air intake and eat all 12.
However, tossing the foil on the ground revealed my secret. Zillions of shiny silver balls littered my hideaway and dad moved them to the top top shelf of the double licked walk-in meat locker.
This recipe is somewhat in the ballpark. If you're wanting the recipe to be exact, then don't bother.
When The Closer was on TV, I discovered the DingDongs were real, not props. Hostess refused to sell any of their supply.
Yet, three months later I got a box. I promised never to tell how I obtained them.
I put them in the freezer, made some of my special milk, gave 3 to family and devoured everything. They were wonderful.
Even though some media outlets reported that they were not real, they were a limited number of boxes made. Hostess denied their existence because so many people called but the foil was a choking hazard and insurance would not cover them. Hostess denied their existence to stop the requests.
I made this today, mostly because I wanted to taste the filling, so I used a box devil’s food cake as a shortcut. It was fantastic! Ganache was really good, but the filling really took it over the top. Next time I’ll make it as cupcakes and inject the filling inside.
I bet it would be wonderful as cupcakes, too! Yum!
This looks like a perfect giant size of one of my favorite treats! Also it’s wonderful to see someone besides me using parchment paper instead of plastic wrap on top of a filling, custard, etc. Anywhere we can cut down on 1 time use plastic is great. Thank you for this and an amazing recipe!!❤️❤️
She said it was WAX PAPER , not parchment. ??
Because , don’t bake biscuits on WAX PAPER, I mistakenly did that one morning when my grown children had come home for Christmas and asked for biscuits. The wax melted into the biscuits!😢😵
Yes I did hear her say wax paper but I'm hoping she meant parchment. 😊 Like you I used wax paper because the recipe said to. This was in the mid 1980's. It was a recipe for the sponge for a pumpkin roll. I never liked the results and was so happy to discover parchment paper! 😄
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I put almost everything on parchment paper. I line broiler pan with aluminum foil, then parchment to roast chicken or bacon or anything.... Thankfully, it isn't hard to find any longer.!!!
BUT , we may get out of everything now if the wars get worse or we dont get a new president!
Oh my goodness. Parchment paper and this video are all I will comment on. She put out a lovely video and recipe for everyone to enjoy.
I posted THREE comments and in one of them I noted how much I ENJOYED THIS VIDEO ....but THANKS for stopping by to shame me! The discussion started bc she said WAX PAPER in the delightful video so I'm still not sure if she meant
wax or parchment..... which are NOT the same thing ?!
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Thanks Sugar Spun! I'm supposed to cut back on sweets. After watching this; so much for that idea! That cake looks DELICIOUS!!!
Looks scrumptious!
Oh my goodness a ding dong cake amazing Ooh no wonder why it's 20 minutes for that cake
That looks amazing and I LOVE ding dongs!!!
I hope you love it!!
That looks so good! Thanks for all the little tips too.Delightful watching you.
Thanks so much! 😊
Love it! Must try!
Enjoy! :)
I'm drooling!
I plan on making this. Yum!! Thank you.
That looks amazing. Definitely on my baking list~ Thank you!
I hope you love it! :)
OH MY GOODNESS!!!!! I MUST HAVE THIS! A dream come true. 😅
I used to eat Ding Dongs and Ho Ho’s all the time as a teenager. Looks delicious.
Thank you!
What a great idea! Love this!
Thank you! :)
Excellent instructions! That cake looks fabulous. Thanks for the recipe!
You're welcome! Enjoy! :)
Hey Mrs. Ding Dong!! Lol. This is my go to cake baking channel!! Loved this one, can't wait to try it!
🤣 Thank you so much! I hope you love it! :)
Wow, this is wild! Love it.
Thank you! Enjoy! :)
I'm a Ding Dong fanatic. This is my go-to cake.
I need to make this for Thanksgiving! It looks delicious!!
I hope you love it! :)
Excellent video! Thanks for the clear and fun instructions.
You're welcome! Enjoy! :)
Your Ding Dong cake looks absolutely delicious!!! Trying to think of a reason to make it, so I can give it a taste myself😄 Maybe we'll have to have Ding Dong cake and pumkin pie for dessert for Thanksgiving!
That sounds like a great idea to me! :)
That looks amazing
It looks delicious, I can't wait to make it and taste it!! Thank you so much for sharing.
You're welcome! I hope you love it! :)
That filling looks great; fantastic the idea of ermine as the base - - creative!
Thanks so much! Enjoy! :)
Looks really good! I always add coffee to my chocolate cakes. It enhances the chocolate flavor really well.
There's a bakery near me that makes 5inch ding dongs and they are amazing. You can't just buy one, you could but what happens is...as soon as you begin eating one someone ask can i have a bite. Just say NO and point to the fridge, there's one in the there 😂
🤣 Sounds like you speak from experience. :)
Looks delicious! When I was growing up they were called Big Wheels until they were sued because of the name and later changing the name to Ding Dong
You have made my chocoholic heart very happy with this cake.
I hope you love it! :)
I was so excited when you cut it! Such a success!
:) :) :)
Ooooooooo….. I’m in my third trimester and this insane craving for this cake has completely kicked in! I plan to try this recipe for Halloween night/dinner with my family. Ufff, I can’t wait!
I also made a Ding Dong Cake! Followed your recipe on Wednesday and we cut into it last night. Truly a superb dessert. The cake is fudgy and decadent - mmm. And the filling blew me away. Making it was a first for me although I make a lot of thick sauces, etc., for other foods. It is so light and smooth like whipped cream. Fantastic. So much better than an actual Ding Dong. Your instructions are terrific. I watched the video through a couple of times then paused/started while I followed along in the kitchen. It was fun! And after a day of work very therapeutic. The Grinch Cookies are on my list. I'm envious of the fresh eggs!😎
I’m so glad you enjoyed it so much! It’s a really tasty cake. 😊
Ding Dong Cake must be the Hostess version of Drake's Ring Dings Cake...plan on making this weekend-yum!
I hope you love it! 😊
Think I’m going to make one tomorrow. Looks delicious & just like a ding dong!
I hope you love it! :)
That cake looks delicious, I'll dare to make it 👌✨
I need this in my life!
It's so good! :)
I'm going to make this one for Christmas , I can't wait to make it , you make the most tasting dessert Yum and I have made so many of them
Thank you so much! I hope you love it! :)
I love Ermine Butter Cream on a red velvet cake, and on yellow cake. So tasty. I cannot wait to make this cake!!!!
Just lovely! Thx a bunch!
Enjoy! :)
From Louisville, KY: I CAN’T WAIT
2 try this !!!
Now I need to make this
Thank you for always sharing great recipes
I hope you love it! :)
I will b making this it sounds delicious
I am so relieved you didnt use sweetened shortening ❤
Love that filling.
Ermine frosting is my favorite! This looks delicious.
You are a very good teacher you don’t drag on and on easy to follow. I will try looks tasty
Thanks so much 😊
I made today came out perfect
I LOVE THIS!!!!
Enjoy! :)
In elementary school, my friend's mom always threw a Ding Dong into her lunch and I was SO jealous! I should make this for her next time she visits :-D
That would be a wonderful treat! :)
That looks so yummy!
Thank you! :)
Oh my goodness, I ate my fair share of Ding Dongs as a kid, along with Funny Bone and other sweet treats! I have a sweet tooth that just wont quit! I can just taste it this and I will be making this recipe for sure! TFS!
I hope everyone loves it! :)
Made it for work and everyone LOVED it ❤
I’m so glad everyone enjoyed it so much! 😊
Excellent instructions. Thank you!
I feel like ding dongs don’t taste the same since they took away the foil packaging 😭 this cake looks delicious, I have to try it!
I hope you love the cake! I wonder if there was a recipe change in the ding dongs? 🤷♀️
They sold the company and the price dropped and so did the quality
I have to agree but I do feel that since they sold the company quality and recipe has changed. They definitely are not the same. So sad.
I actually laughed every time you said ding dong!! I’m definitely gonna try this one! Looks so yummy, as always❤
I hope you love it! :)
I’m sure I will! ❤
I love ding-dongs - that is my kind of cake. Looks delish.
I hope you love it! :)
This looks SO good and I like how you go through each step--I made ermine frosting for a Detroit Bumpy Cake--delish!
I hope you love it! :)
This looks so good!!!
Enjoy! :)
My an amazing old-time favorite. You made this look effortless. I'm an aspiring Baker (my niche) and can't wait to try it. If it is a fraction as good as it looks then I'm in for a real treat. Thnx 4 sharing. Sugar Spun.👍🏾😉💜🍰
It is sooo exciting to just try this cake. Thank you for this video.
I hope you love it! :)
Looks delish!!!
Thank you! :)
Thank you cake looks awesome! I cannot wait to make this cake!
I hope you love it! :)
This is amazing, my grandkids are got to love this so much. Thanks you so much for the recipe. God bless
You're welcome! Enjoy! :)
Gasp!!!! I need this, gonna make it thank you!!!
I hope you love it! :)
OH MY GOD THIS LOOKS SO GOOD. and who doesn't love saying "ding dong"?
Oh. My. Goodness! 🤤
I love Ding Dongs! I hope to make this soon! Maybe for Christmas. I love your presentation too❤
Thank you! I hope you love it! :)
Oh my!! ❤ I made this for a party on Sunday and was amazing 😮😊
I'm so glad everyone enjoyed it so much! :)
Awesome!!!!
Thanks!!