you've probably heard the urban legends that Twinkies aren't made from actual food so you know they've got a shelf life of like forever it's not true this is real sponge cake this is real cream filling or I wouldn't want to do this oh yeah because it's real food we can make an amazing home clone so I'm gonna go over here to the store get some ingredients meet you back in the lab oh and if you want to see what a Twinkie does look like it's been sitting on a shelf for over 10 years hang in there tom top secret recipe top secret recipes top secret recipes Todd Wilber for $26 you could go to William Sonoma and get this here Twinkie pan which is crazy because for that same amount of money you could get this many Twinkies a hundred Twinkies you don't need to buy this pan I'm going to show you how to make the Twinkie pans from scratch it's super easy we'll love put this on eBay because I'm heavy-duty foil rip off the square piece fold it in half lengthwise fold it in half again good self Spice bottle Spice Islands is great cut a round bottom on it makes it look more like a Twinkie hold it up like this fold in the ends take out the bottle I get tight here on the ends put this in a pan we're going to use this pancake mix this is our cake mix but we're not going to pay attention to the instructions on the back instead we're going to do this four egg whites beaten until kind of stiff like this okay then take this pound cake mix up it into a bowl a little bit of water mix that up so we have our cake mix looking like this we're gonna get our egg whites fold them in spray these suckers so we can get our creamy keys out later a little nonstick spray in there golden and then load in some Twinkie betta felt about that much in each one okay get this marshmallow cream 2 cups a little bit of shortening some powdered sugar and just a touch of vanilla look at that perfect right its Twinkie filling here's our real Twinkie and if you look on the bottom there's three holes that's where the filling goes so we're going to do that in our clone same thing grab your clone out of the foil get a chopstick and start making the cavity inside your Twinkie this is where the filling is going to go now what your filling in a pastry bag I've got this gun right here okay that's how we're gonna load it start loading fill it up fill it up fill it up ready Twinkie cream filling and into mouth mmm who's actually still warm that makes it way better oh that's so good clone Twinkie now let's find out what the old ones look like I've been waiting for this see that see that right there that's when I bought these Twinkies let's see what they look like thirteen year old Twinkies no mold no no weirdness they still look like a Twinkie isn't it crazy except for one thing they're hard okay like petrified look it like it they're hard like a rock can smell funny too smell that yeah hahaha man sit look at this okay now let's let's open it oh my God look the filling the filling is completely hard inside Twinkies do not last forever I have an idea let's take these outside maybe outside and petrified I think I just got petrified Twinkie in my eye