Hostess Ding Dongs
It's from 1967, before you were born.
- Maker
- Hostess Brands
- Type
- Cream-filled cake
- Debuted
- 1967
- Note
- round, foil-wrapped
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About
As of 2026, it's 59 years old.
Ding Dongs are round chocolate cakes with a cream center, wrapped in foil and named, with full confidence, Ding Dongs. Their hockey-puck shape and that satisfying foil peel made them the slightly fancier-feeling member of the Hostess snack-cake family.
Around since 1967 and once advertised with a relentless bell-ringing jingle, they're the cake that somehow made a puck feel like a treat.
Rich, chocolatey, and gloriously silly to say out loud, the Ding Dong is proof that a great snack can survive a ridiculous name.
Hostess Ding Dongs through the years
Introduced
Round cream-filled chocolate cakes in distinctive foil.
Survives the Hostess shakeup
Returns to shelves after the 2012 bankruptcy.
