Hostess CupCake

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Hostess CupCake is a snack pastry brand previously manufactured and distributed by Hostess Brands and is currently owned by private equity firms Apollo Global Management and Metropoulos & Co The most common form is a chocolate cupcake with brown sugar coating and vanilla creme filling, with eight different white streaks at the top. However, other flavors have been available at times. It has been claimed to be the first commercially produced cupcake and has become an iconic American brand.

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Histori

The Hostess CupCake was first sold on May 11, 1919. According to author Andrew F. Smith, it was the first commercially produced cupcake, originally produced by Taggart Bakery as a Chocolate Cup Cake. The hostess also claimed that it was "the first snack cake ever introduced to the market." In 2004, rival Tastykake denied this claim, claiming that Tastykake introduced the first snack cake.

Initially, two cupcakes sold for five cents. Different flavors were offered during the early years, including topped cupcakes with vanilla or flavored milk malt icing. During the 1940s, an orange flavored cupcake was developed, with orange cake and icing. However until 1950, Hostess CupCake did not have a filling or a white line grooved on it.

In 1947, D.R. "Doc" Rice, who started her career at Hostess in 1938 with a job requiring dumping baked cookies on the table, was given the task of developing the Hostess CupCake further. This development culminated in an updated cupcake in 1950. A white line consisting of graffiti was added to the top to distinguish Hostess CupCake from other brands. The contents of vanilla creme are also added. Rice got the idea to use creme filling when a new machine to inject the fill into the Mistress Twinks became available. Improvements were also made to a mixture of chocolate cake and chocolate coating in 1950. According to Rice, the updated cupcakes were first produced and marketed in Detroit.

Other flavors of the Hostess cupcake that have been available at times have become golden (vanilla with brown sugar coating) and strawberries.

In 1988, 400 million Hostess Cupcakes were sold. In 2011, the Hostess sold over 600 million CupCakes annually. Although Hostess Brands went into bankruptcy protection in 2012, the company plans to continue making Cupcakes and other snack cakes such as Twinkies and Sno Balls. The plan was derailed by the company's liquidation and the announcement that it will be out of business on November 16, 2012. However, the company was eventually purchased by Apollo Global Management, which began selling Hostess products in July 2013.

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Producing

The cookies are produced from dough that includes flour, sugar, cocoa and water. Baked in a tray for 17 minutes in a 70 foot (21 m) conveyor oven that can produce 11,000 cupcakes per hour. After cooling, the cake is injected through the top with vanilla creme, then brought by the conveyor to be covered on it with a brown sugar coating. After a special machine puts white icing in the signature streak, the cake is cooled and wrapped.

The complete ingredients are: Sugar, Enriched Wheat Flour (Flour, Ferrous Sulfate, Vitamin B [Niacin Vitamin B3, Thiamine Mononitrate Vitamin B1 {Thiamin Vitamin B1}, Riboflavin Vitamin B2 {Riboflavin Vitamin B2}, Folic Acid Vitamin B9 ]), Water, Vegetables, and/or, Animal Shortening, Contains One Or More Of The Followings (Partially Partially Oxidable Soybeans, Cotton Seeds, Or, Canola Oil, Beef Fat), Corn Syrup, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn Syrup ,, Contains 22% or less, Whey, Corn Starch Modified, Leavening (Baking Soda, Sodium Acid, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Monocalcium Phosphate, Sodium Phosphate), Salt, Solid Maize Syrup, Calcium Carbonate, Corn Starch, Calcium Sulphate, Dextrosa, Soybean Lecithin, Polysorbate 60, Mono and Digliserida, Gum Cellulose, Calcium Caseinate, Wheat Gluten, Agar, Gelatin, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Caramel Color, Chocolate Drink, Grasshopper Powder, Potassium Sorbat, and Sorbat Acid, hanan Freshness, Natural Flavors & amp; Artificial

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Branding

Hostess CupCakes is temporarily marketed by the animated character Captain Cupcake, who is a companion in Twinkie the Kid and Fruit Pie the Magician ads. One marketing slogan used is "You get great pleasure in every bite." Many ads show the slogan "Hey! Where's the cream filling?"

Hostess Cupcakes are sold as "PingÃÆ'¼inos" ( Penguins ) in Mexico, and with Latin Latin remaining extensions, by Marinela regional company (bakem pastry division of Bimbo breadmaking brand).

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Other Flavors

Standard: In addition to chocolate flavor, this Hostess CupCakes flavor is available throughout the year in an 8-quantity box:

• Orange CupCakes
• Red Velvet CupCakes

Limited Edition: This taste (or has been) available as a "Limited Time Only" or "Seasonal" product in the 8-quantity box; all these flavors were first introduced after the acquisition of Hostess by Apollo Global 2013 Management.

• Cup Cake Caramel Sea Salt (caramel ice yellow cake with sea salt topping & caramel filling)
• Golden CupCakes (yellow cake with brown sugar coat)
• Baseball CupCakes (yellow cake with vanilla icing)
• Baseball CupCakes (chocolate cake with vanilla icing)
• Star Spangled CupCakes (yellow cake with blue ice)
• Candy Corn CupCakes (yellow cake with vanilla ice cream & sprinkles)
• Caramel Apple CupCakes (apple caramel cake with stuffing)
• Pumpkin Spice CupCakes (seasoning cake with stuffing)
• Dark Chocolate Raspberry CupCakes (dark chocolate cake with chocolate and raspberry chocolate coating)
• Strawberry CupCakes (strawberry cake with strawberry icing)
• Chocolate Covered Strawberry CupCakes (chocolate strawberry cake)
• I Love You Cakes - heart-shaped
• ScaryCakes (chocolate cake with orange coating) - available during Halloween time period
• HolidayCakes (yellow cake with vanilla ice cream & sprinkles)
• Shamrock CupCakes (chocolate cake with mint stuffing)
• Spring CupCakes (yellow cake with pink vanilla icing)

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See also

• The food portal

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References

Source of the article : Wikipedia