Use Little Debbie Snacks As The Foundation Of A Simple No-Bake Cake

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Of the list of mistakes everyone makes when baking a cake, "bothering to bake a cake at all" is not listed. But, maybe it should be? We're obsessing hardcore over the concept of bake-less Little Debbie cake decorating, based on a video by Wildflour Mama that we watched on YouTube. These teeny-tiny, very aesthetically-pleasing cakes would, we think, be perfect for an intimate party, like an anniversary dinner or a birthday party with your two or three besties. We've seen the origins of birthday cake explained, but making a picture-perfect dessert with snack cakes was a new one for us. Now that the genie is out of the bottle, however, we can't stop thinking about the possibilities.

In the video, Wildflour Mama takes round Little Debbie snacks — and, if they aren't round already, she cuts them into a round shape — and uses a schmear of frosting to stick the first snack to a cake stand. A rotating aluminum cake turntable is your best bet for getting great coverage and flexibility of design without needing 360 degrees of access to your project. Using icing as the glue, she stacks several snack cakes until the size of her desired mini-cake is achieved. Then, she applies a neat coat of frosting (you can use an angled offset icing spatula) and decorates the cake, usually based on its flavor.

While you may be wishing you could make this no-bake cake project with discontinued Little Debbie snacks we're never getting back, like Spice Cakes, there are still tons of products that we can see using creatively with this hack. For a ladylike tea party or bridal shower, how about a rectangular stack of Little Debbie Fancy Cakes iced all in white with elegant curlicues of white piping? 

In fact, you don't even need to use Little Debbie snacks... a competing brand would work just as well. We can see some Hostess Twinkies stood on end and formed into a cylinder with icing to make a delicous sponge cake — this would sing with some fruit-flavored frosting and perhaps fresh berries on top. Wildflour Mama introduced the idea of unfurling roll cakes to make a bigger jelly roll, so how about transforming some fudgy, creamy Ho Hos into a luxurious chocolate cream cake? With chocolate ganache and chocolate chips, you are looking at a cocoa-riffic cake that could satiate any sweet tooth! 

Lucky enough to be blessed by the presence of Drake's Cakes in your grocer? We're imagining a tower of peanut butter-filled Funny Bones overlayed with chocolate icing (yes, we are chocoholics 'round these parts) and studded with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. The possibilities are nearly limitless, and the only thing holding you back is the selection at your local supermarket.