Snack cake

Snack cake

Hostess Twinkies snack cakes
Type Cake
Main ingredients Cake base, icing
Cookbook:Snack cake  Snack cake

Snack cakes are a type of baked dessert confectionery made with cake and icing.

Markets

Canada

The main manufacturer in Canada is Vachon Inc. which makes and distributes such products as May West, Jos. Louis, Passion Flakie, and Ah Caramel!.

United States

Little Debbie Zebra Cake

Snack cakes can be found in many American supermarkets and convenience stores, sold either individually or by the box. Examples include Drake's Devil Dogs, Twinkies and zebra cakes. Well-known American manufacturers of snack cakes include Hostess, Little Debbie, Dolly Madison, and Drake's. In 2004, the snack cake industry in the US experienced major consolidation, which resulted in fewer products being offered to consumers.[1] For example, Dolly Madison zingers, Hostess brand Twinkies, and Drake's coffee cakes were all solely produced by the now defunct Interstate Bakeries Corporation.[1]


United Kingdom

Jaffa cakes are a popular type of biscuit-like snack cake in Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Snack cake cross-brand equivalencies (US brands)

The following is a chart of equivalent products produced by major snack cake labels.

Entenmann's Hostess Drake's Little Debbie Tastykake
Sponge Creme Cupcake Twinkie Zoinks! Cloud Cakes Dreamies
- Ho Hos Yodels Swiss Cake Rolls Swiss Rolls
- Ding Dong Ring Ding Cocoa Cremes Chocolate Bells
- Suzy Q's Devil Dog Devil Cremes Chocolate Kremies
Chocolate Creme Cupcakes CupCake Yankee Doodle Creme Filled Chocolate Cupcakes Creme Filled Chocolate Cupcakes
Butterscotch Cake Butterscotch Zinger - - Butterscotch Krimpet
- Chocolate Zinger - - Chocolate Krimpet

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Piece of cake (article) - from All Business website, February 1, 2004.