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Peanut Butter Kandy Kakes = One of the Greatest Junk Food Items on Earth.
Doesn't that say enough?
(If not, how about the Butterscotch Krimpets, the Chocolate Cupcakes, the Chocolate Cupcakes with Creme Filling or the Chocolate Chip Cookie Bar? Any one of those will do you fine for a junk food fix.)
I would kill a hobo for a lifetime supply of Tastykake.
http://Tastykake.com you can send these treats to friends and love ones.... how else can you live in philly and not know or love tastykake if you do not please shhhh .don't tell me ... i love them
No true Philadelphian would give anything but five stars! Such an easy review. My favorite? Peanut Butter and Jelly Krimpets. I buy a whole bunch when they put them out around Easter and freeze them for enjoying all year long!
2 words:
Butterscotch Krimpets
There's a classic episode of "The Simpsons", when Marge announces to the family at dinner, "I hope you all saved room, because I made your favorite dessert. Store bought snack cakes - both kinds!" She then serves what looks like cartoon versions of Hostess Twinkies and chocolate cupcakes. I guess "Springfield" is not in Pennsylvania. If it was, they'd be eating Tastykakes, instead of inferior Hostess, Drake's, Little Debbie, or Table Talk products.
One half of my brain thinks that a fresh Tastykake Lemon Pie might be the world's most perfect junk food. The other half perpetually craves a 3-pack of Tastykake Butterscotch Krimpets. What a dilemma.
What jives with milk best
Is a peanut butter Kandy Kake
How I wish they'd grow west
For my own darn sake
Tastykakes are to Hostess products as prime rib is to the McDonald's McRib. Seriously, have a Tastykake, and then try to eat a Twinkie or a Ding Dong again without being sorely disappointed. I've been addicted to Tastykakes since visiting relatives in Jersey when I was 13, and Hostess cupcakes have never tasted quite as good since. I don't know what it is about Tastykakes -- their freshness? Their perfect ratio of frosting to cake? Everything about them is heavenly.
I remember for one brief, shining moment, my college in California sold Tastykakes. I don't know how. I don't know why. I don't know where they got them from. I didn't question it, I just accepted it and visited the campus store multiple times per day to stock up. Then, just as suddenly as they appeared, they were gone. I knew it was too good to be true. Why can't we have Tastykakes in the west???
Last Tastykake story: My boyfriend mailed me a huge box of Tastykakes once, and it was the greatest day ever. Okay, that's all. But seriously, you should try these if you never have.
F'real dawg. Nobody bakes a kake as tasty as a TastyKake
I fell in love with Tasty Kake about 25 years ago. Back in the day, everyone in my elementary school used to take our butterscotch krimpets and smash them into the lunch table...why? Well, when you opened up the package, the frosting stayed stuck to the package and you could eat it separately from the kake. For some reason, this was considered desirable. I, of course, took it one step further and used to pick the jelly blobs out of my jelly krimpets and eat them separately. What? You didn't do this too? Stop looking at me funny.
I don't eat tasty kakes very often anymore -- it's not that they're not good, because they still are, but it's the calories dude. Anyway, tasty kake has figured out a way to lure me back. No, it's not the newish lo-cal tasty kakes (as if!). Rather, they've capitalized on my love of all things limited edition. I'm such a sucker for limited edition products, it's ridiculous. It's like I see those two little words and my synapses misfire, causing me to scrounge up whatever change I have so I can buy things like cool mint doritos (limited edition!) and chicken kiev kit kats (limited edition!)
So here's how Tasty Kake sucked me back in. First, I noticed the limited edition spice kake krimpets in the fall. These are divine, resembling pumpkin bread? banana bread? I don't know, something spicey and good. Love them. Next, I spotted the dark chocolate peppemint kandy kakes at Christmas. Aside from the rather frighteningly red mint layer, these too were delightful. This spring/summer, Tasty Kake has gone all out, offering a limited edition strawberry layer cake (yuck! does not resemble strawberry in any way! smells slightly like a strawberry shortcake doll!) and....pancake krimpets?!? waah? I'm a little bit embarrassed to report that these are pretty good. They're butter-flavored krimpets with creme filling and maple flavored frosting -- too rich, and fake butter-y tasting, but I secretly enjoyed them. Apparently, Tasty Kake also has an altruistic side, offering lemon krimpets, part of the proceeds of which are donated to Alex's Lemonade Stand. I haven't tried these yet, but I will.
I don't think you can actually buy tasty kakes directly from the bakery, but in the relatively near future, they are moving to a new facility in the naval yard, and they'll be offering (gasp) factory tours!!! Sign me up.
Just when I thought the Peanut Butter Kandy Kake could not be improved upon, Tastykake introduced the Banana Cream Kandy Kake. I could devour them by the case.
A long time ago Philly mag compiled a Worst list and for the category of cakes and pies, they wrote "Anything by Tastykake". I was furious. How jive I thought, taking a shot just to be different. Like everybody in Philly, I too grew up on TastyKake. Chocolate cup cakes, Butterscotch Krimpets and the pies, lemon, apple (plain apple not french), cherry and peach. Your mother never had anything to say because the label said, flour, eggs, pure vanilla, fruit filling etc. etc., pretty much how she made hers. Mom would not be happy today! The label on the TastyKake wrappers reads like a primer for DuPont chemists. More disturbing are some of the natural ingredients, palm oil? Palm oil! This stuff can clog a 4 inch sewer pipe and costs a nickel a gallon, an exaggeration. Reading on made me sick. The whole idea of TastyKake was that is was different from Hostess and Drake. Even your Mother liked it. I can't believe that the Philly mag writer grew into his smart ass review. Anyway, there's an 800# on every TastyKake wrapper. I call. The recording says I'll get a call back. I do. She listens, cordially asks if I'm finished and explains that she just takes these notes to pass on to the "higher ups' and that they will probably want to send me some product. Ya think she was listening?
love love love
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