Sci Fi Alien Twinkie Stonehenge -Twinkiehenge

Stonehenge has always been a mystery, Twinkies have also had a bit of mystery too them, now together they make a sweet mystery. There is something a little magnificent to the Twinkie Stonehenge phenomena.. why are people making them? who are they? what happens to the Twinkies afterward.. all these questions and more will not be answered by this post : ) but you WILL find the recipe and directions for making your own TwinkieHenge or Twinkhenge below.

The Stonehenges below (one the green table) are from the Burning Man Festival.

I don’t think that quite counts as a science project!

Last (and most certainly least) we have the bacon wrapped Twinkie Stonehenge. Seriously. Someone actually created this… what could they have been thinking? What could be so wrong with someone that they . . just a moment… I am getting a craving… I am losing my control…. okay, I so I am going to go and make a BWTS, so what? Who are you to judge me?!? bwuahahah! (yeah, that’s supposed to be evil laughter)

Stonehenge is the proper way to spell it but many people also spell it stonhedge and stonehege.

CREATE YOUR OWN TWINKIEHENGE RECIPE BELOW:

So, you want to make a stonehenge out of Twinkies? sure, everyone does and now we are going to show you how.

It’s very simple. You start by mixing up some instant chocolate pudding, according to the package instructions. The recipe called for a 5.9-ounce package, but all I could find was two 3.9-ounce packages. This didn’t bother me; have you ever noticed that you never hear the phrase “too much pudding”? I mixed up the pudding and put it into a serving bowl, and topped it with crushed Oreos, about 16 cookies’ worth.

Now it was time to add the Twinkies. The recipe says to cut Twinkies in half crosswise and stand them up on end, with the rounded edges up and the cut ends pushed into the pudding. But this seemed to me to be only halfway there. Stonehenge isn’t just standing vertical stones; it’s the crossbars that make it truly distinctive. Without them I’d have Twinkie Rapa Nui. So I halved a few Twinkies lengthwise as well and laid them atop the posts, and voila: Twinkiehenge.

Some of you may have found the combination of chocolate pudding and crushed Oreos familiar. When I was in my teens, back in the last century, our Y-Teens gatherings often featured a dessert known by a number of names: Better than Sex, Better than Robert Redford, God in a Pan. (Yes, we were in our mid-teens and Robert Redford was in his late 40s at that point. What can I say? The man can still bring it.) BTS was made of chocolate pudding, crushed Oreos (often still a bit chunky), and whipped cream or Cool Whip. We did not bother with Twinkies, or henges.

Of course on Saturday it took us a while to get around to eating Twinkiehenge. It’s one of those dishes that looks too pretty, or at least too goofy, to eat. But we cast aside our fears of little Twinkie Druids casting little Twinkie curses on us, and dug in. Unsurprisingly, the combination of pudding and Oreos was tasty. The Twinkies didn’t really add anything to that. They didn’t detract; they were just kind of there.

Verdict: Success, albeit silly. I don’t think I’ll be bothering with the Twinkie part again, but we’re working on transforming too much pudding into no more pudding.