I need help re: Ding Dongs.

[LaraMN]

I'm making a birthday cake for my geezerly son, who turns eight tomorrow, and it's a dinosaur. The recipe requires something called "ding dongs." What the hell are ding dongs? Are they like twinkies? I hope so, because those what I bought. I saw nothing which made any reference to either dings, dongs, or both, on the grocery store shelves.

[LSK]

1. never heard of ding dongs? are you series!?!?

[jpgray]

2. A Ding Dong is a hockey-puck-shaped Hostess cupcake

[Robb]

3. They are much like twinkies, only chocolate

Think of a Hostess cupcake dipped in hard-ish chocolate, and you're there.

[RevolutionaryActs]

4. Ding dongs are made by Hostess

They're round chocolate cakes filled with cream, like a Twinkie.

[LaraMN]

5. Shit! So they're round, huh?

Damn.

[billyskank]

6. So it has nothing to do with Leslie Phillips?

"Is that the delightful giggle I hear of a saucy young popsy? Ding dong!"

[AllegroRondo]

7. Little Debbie makes a 'generic' version of them

and typically only $1 a box too.