Healthy Homemade Twinkies
These Healthy Homemade Twinkies are sweet, moist, and spongy, and they're stuffed with a creamy, vanilla bean speckled filling. They're the perfect size for snacks, a filling dessert, or satisfying breakfast. Oh, and they're sugar free, low carb, low fat, high protein, gluten free, and keto-friendly too!
Ingredients
Twinkies:
- 112g (1 cup) Coconut Flour
- 48g (¼ cup) Truvia Spoonable
- ½ tbs Double-Acting Baking Powder
- ⅛ tsp Salt
- 185g (¾ cup) 100% Pure Pumpkin Puree (canned)
- ½ cup + 2 tbs Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk
- 114g (½ cup) Plain, Nonfat Greek Yogurt
- 3 large Eggs
- 2 large Egg Whites
- ½ tbs Vanilla Paste
- ½ tbs Liquid Stevia Extract
Vanilla Filling:
- 1 cup Homemade Cannoli Dip (you can use vanilla frosting or cream cheese frosting, or anything you like really!)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and spray a Twinkie pan with cooking spray.
- In a medium-sized bowl, whisk together the coconut flour, stevia/Truvia, baking powder and salt.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the pumpkin, almond milk, yogurt, eggs, egg whites, vanilla paste and stevia extract. Dump the dry ingredients over the wet ingredients and whisk vigorously to remove any clumps.
- Scoop the batter into the prepared pan. Gently tap the pan on the counter to flatten the batter and bake for ~38 minutes, or until the surface of the cakes spring back when tapped.
- Flip the Twinkies on a wire cooling rack and let cool completely. While the Twinkies cool, make the filling of your choice (I used my Homemade Cannoli Dip.
- Scoop the filling into a piping bag (I used a #27 Star Tip) and carefully fill the Twinkies. Puncture the bottom of the Twinkie in 3 spots and squeeze in some of the filling (not too much otherwise the cake will burst).
- Serve immediately or store in a tightly sealed container in the fridge.
Recipe Notes
**Or another natural sweetener that is 2x as sweet as sugar (¼ cup has the sweetness of ½ cup of sugar)
Nutrition Facts
Healthy Homemade Twinkies
Amount Per Serving (1 twinkie [doesn't include filling])
Calories 120
Calories from Fat 32
% Daily Value*
Fat 3.5g5%
Saturated Fat 2.5g16%
Cholesterol 80mg27%
Sodium 135mg6%
Carbohydrates 13g4%
Fiber 7g29%
Sugar 2g2%
Protein 8g16%
Vitamin A 3500IU70%
Vitamin C 3.3mg4%
Calcium 60mg6%
Iron 0.7mg4%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.