here's an easy tip for filling cupcakes with creme --- use an apple corer to remove a "core" of cake from the center of the cupcake(don't push it down all the way to the bottom). pipe creme into the empty space and then plug up the top with a "cap" of cake. easy peasy!

This is my husband's favorite cake. We all love it and I use it regularly to make cupcakes to take to any function. By using chocolate cake mix, the frosting as listed and drizzling melted milk chocolate over the top, this turns into a very elegant dessert.

I had this cake when I was younger and forgot about it until I saw it on this site. It is such an easy recipe and so good!

This is a good cake. We think it would be even better served with a strawberry topping. Thanks for posting.

This cake is amazing and tastes very much like a twinkie. A twist that I found on accident was using Maple extract instead of vanilla. What you get is a "Pancake Cake" Tastes just like your morning pancakes. I also make this as cupcakes, keep all the ingredients the same just slice the cupcakes in half, spread the filling and refridgerate. Everyone loves them!

Like another reviewer, I also had trouble cutting, then reassembling the cake. I think it would be much easier to use two 9inch cake pans instead. However, I will not be trying this one again b/c my filling turned out to be lumpy and runny and I followed the instructions exactly. As well, all of my ingredients were at room temperature so I don't know what went wrong. Needless to say, I was very disappointed with this recipe.

AWESOME cake, thanks so much for the recipe. Delicious. I made it for my mom's birthday and she loved it, so thanks for the recipe to a special cake.

I'm only rating the filling because I made a sponge cake for this recipe. One out of six people thought this was O.K. but the rest of us didn't like it at all. For me personally, knowing that there was shortening in the filling just kind of sent me over the edge. Sorry.

WOW!!! So good and very easy. Similar to the Giant Ding Dong Cake on this site. Will definately make again.

good- yum, yum fyi- a cake cutter can be purchased at a craft store for about $3. this will make spliting cakes lenghtwise sooo extremely effortless-reminds you of a cheese slicer just a bunch bigger :)

family loves this cake...have also increased the filling part of the recipe by 1/2 ...

This was just okay I was expecting something great from the reviews but didn't get it. The filling was too runny from beating it that long. The cake was not easy to assemble, adn was well...a mess. I sould've refrigerated the cake and the filling for about an hour before attempting to assemble it and it would've been much easier to work with. I refrigerated the mess that I had made and then re-assembled it the next day. Wasn't pretty but tasted okay. Sort of tasted like a twinkie, but I was not impressed.

I made this cake for our cook-out over the Memorial weekend. I followed the suggestion to make it a day ahead. It was FANTASTIC!!!! All of my guests couldn't wait to try it and all agreed it tasted like a Twinkie, but even better. I used a Duncan Hines yellow cake mix. I think Duncan Hines are the best cake mixes. The filling was fabulous and went together easily although you need to be prepared to beat it for several minutes. I agree it needed to be a tad sweeter and I ended up adding maybe 3 or 4 tablespoons of sugar. I made it Saturday afternoon and we ate it Sunday afternoon. I saved back a piece for myself and ate it Monday night. It was even better then. The second time I made this cake, I did it for church treats. I baked the cake mix in two cookie sheets. It was very thin. I doubled the filling and topped one cake with the other. They looked exactly like Little Debbie Banana Twins after I cut them. The entire church went crazy over the cake. One Lady said she had never had wedding cake that tasted as good. I will make this cake again and again and again.......Thank you Carol!

Excellent and fun cake! My boyfriend, family, and friends ask for it all the time!

This is awesome! The only change I made was I added 1/4 cup sugar to make the filling slightly sweeter. I used devil's food cake and made Suzy Q's and it tasted just like the real ones only better. For a variation, I divided the yellow cake (I used the butter recipe cake mix) and added 2 teas. banana extract to the cake mix and 2 teas. to the filling and made Banana Flips. It was incredible! Will definitely make this again and again. Thanks, Carol!

FANTASTIC. This my new favorite dessert recipe! I made it with devil's food cake mix instead, and it tasted just like a suzy-q. YUMMMM!

I admit, I always taste everything I make as soon as it's done to make sure it's good. But this cake definitely is better the next day as the recipe says! The filling is a little work to make, but turns out yummy. (Didn't taste like a Twinkie to me, but still good.) I even had enough to frost the top. Cutting a 9 by 13 cake in half lengthwise is not easy!! I think next time I will make 2 round cakes instead as previously suggested. That will make it a lot easier!