Billionaire C. Dean Metropoulos and Apollo Global's Andy Jhawar bought a shuttered Hostess Brands for $410 million in April, 2013 and spent another $110 million updating the bakeries. The rejuvenated Hostess bakery in Emporia, Kansas whips up more than 1 million Twinkies a day--and over 400 million a year. Below, Dean Metropoulos shares his family recipe for making one of America's guiltiest pleasures. For the full story on Hostess, check out Twinkie's Miracle Comeback: The Untold, Inside Story of a $2 Billion Feast.

Twinkie Recipe:

Total time: 24 hours. Makes: 1,000,000 servings

1. 

Stir 50-pound bags of Twinkie mix (flour, sugar, salt, xanthan gum and much more!) into a 2,000-gallon mixer with water, corn syrup and vegetable glycerin.

2.

Add batter to endless flow of greased, 72-cake Twinkie pans. Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes in $20 million Auto-Bake Serpentine oven. Cool with industrial fans.

3.

With 216-nose hydraulic cream-injector, stuff 72 golden cakes with vanilla filling. Estimated time: one second.

4.

To prevent Twinkie traffic jam, use laser guidance system to align cakes as they zip by on conveyer belt.

5.

In two seconds, cover and heat-seal individual cakes in plastic wrappers. Use high-tech robot arm to box. Serve within 65 days.

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