Hostess Cupcakes Recipe

The cupcakes themselves are really good. My son and I wanted to eat all the batter. I was disappointed that the cream filling didn't taste at all like Hostess' filling though. It was basically a custard. I was hoping for the consistency of the real filling but should've known with the pastry cream ingredients that it wasn't going to be the same. And I don't know if milk chocolate chips might help the chocolate top coating to taste more like the original since the original does not have a semi-sweet taste. It's a lot of trouble to make this recipe as its level 4 difficulty indicates. I'm glad I at least tried it though.

I regret not reading the only other review before making these! The "cream filling" is a joke. Nothing like a cream filling, but completely a custard! I looked at a number of recipes (almost all called for heavy cream and white choc), but opted for this as I live overseas and don't have access to traditional heavy cream. I'll be using the 'custard' cream for my apple crumble and doing something different for my hostess cream filling!
Otherwise the rest of recipe is good, but a bit labor intensive for the final result. (I also made holes/used cone cut out in top of cupcakes which worked better)