The brands of Hostess
As Hostess Brands Inc. prepares for possible liquidation, more than jobs and pension obligations are at stake.
Perhaps less iconic is a Dolly Madison variation on the Twinkie called the Zinger. The Zinger pictured is basically a Twinkie covered in a raspberry confection. Dolly Madison is best known in the Midwest.
While not quite as iconic as the Twinkie, the Hostess Cupcakes' identifiable squiggles pre-date the Twinkie by 11 years.
Hostess Sno Balls are cream-filled chocolate cakes covered with marshmallow frosting and coconut flakes. While usually colored pink, Hostess often changed the colors for holidays like Halloween and St. Patrick's Day.
Drake's Coffee Cake is a single-serving round crumb cake that gained special notoriety thanks to references in "Seinfeld" and "The Rosie O'Donnell Show." Drake's was a Northeastern brand Hostess acquired in 1998.
Another of Drake's best known products was the Devil Dog, an unfrosted devil's food cake sandwich with round edges resembling a hot dog bun, filled with a vanilla cream.
While much of the country knows this hockey-puck-shaped chocolate cake as the Hostess Ding Dong, an identical cake was sold by Drake's under the Ring Ding name.
Much like the Ding Dong, the Ho Ho, a miniature Swiss roll covered in chocolate, had a Drake's counterpart known as the Yodel.
Hostess also owned various brands of bread, including a popular brand of rye breads called Beefsteak.
Hostess' best known brand of breads was Wonder, which dates to 1921. Wonder was one of the first brands of sliced bread.
The future of some of the most iconic brands in baked goods is up in the air. See some of the best known and some of the less known products Hostess produces.