Junk banter gave them a 8/10
First up is original golden, hereby known as (OG). The OG Hostess Deep Fried Twinkie is a funnel cake battered sponge cake with creamy filling. Did you catch that one thing? This is a Twinkie covered in funnel cake before it’s deep fried in fat.
I was expecting a golden brown Twinkie out of the oven, but instead got a Twinkie with jaundice. It’s not super crunchy out of the oven, but the Fried Twinkie does have a crispy outside and a softer cake-like inside. Best of all, it totally tastes like funnel cake. It’s buttery and understandably greasy, i.e. it’s delicious.
The creme inside the Fried Twinkie basically becomes vanilla icing once melted. Imagine a funnel cake with warm vanilla glaze on top instead of powdered sugar. Yes, please. The creme filing tastes a lot better in its heated-up state. In fact, these don’t even taste that much like Twinkies. They’re far better. Maybe a bit too much oil, maybe a little straightforward, but a Deep Fried Twinkie sure hits the spot – that very soft spot between your 2nd and 3rd stomach rolls.