Butterscotch Krimpets

Somehow the discussion came up, a few weeks ago, about the family-collective craving for TastyCakes. Every time we visited Pennsylvania as kids we had to have Butterscotch Krimpets, made by the Tasty Baking Company in, I think, Philadelphia. We never ate that sort of thing at home (and goodness knows the Hostess Baking Company tried to tempt us with Twinkies etc.) but it was one of the things we looked forward to on a trip to PA. We always referred to them as TastyCakes (the company) but what we really meant was their Butterscotch Krimpets - a sponge cake sort of thing with butterscotch icing. Simple pleasures.

And since we called them TastyCakes, Mark had no way of knowing that we were really wanting to zero in on just the baker's one offering, so he secretly ordered a case - an assortment - of TastyCakes to be delivered here in Washington. My mother was visiting at the time (thank goodness we had a least a little help with them!) and we enjoyed the variety. Even though we did manage to stash some away in the freezer, we mostly ate our way right through them. Good grief.

Mark did 'get it' then that it was the butterscotch that we had craved all those years, and just last week another TastyCake box appeared on our doorstep - a whole case of Butterscotch Krimpets. I think the case contains 18 boxes, each of which in turn contains 8 packages with 2 Krimpets in each. Todd helped a little, and we pawned a few of them off on a friend in Portland and some folks at work...

They freeze well, but I have a small freezer...

They keep for a long time, but there's only 2 of us...

That's a lot of calories. On top of holiday baking.

(Yum!)