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My Next Great Carnival Idea:  A rolling cart which produces piping hot, made-to-order Twinkies

What was your last great carnival idea?  

I forget.  That's not important right now.  What's important is fresh, carnie-made Twinkies!  I'm reasonably certain that you wouldn't be able to call them Twinkies, since there's probably some kind of copyright protection involved here, but you get the idea.  Call them Cream-Filled Tube Cakes!  It sounds fun, you can put it on a stick, and I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it will smell fantastic while you're making it.  

So, picture this.  A customer can walk up to a cart strategically placed somewhere around a carnival midway.  They order a small, medium, or large Tube Cake.  A specially designed machine extrudes a tube of cake batter into a vat of fry oil, cooking the batter to a delicious golden brown.  The operator takes the cooked tube out of the oil and puts it onto a second funnel, which squeezes delicious white frosting into the Tube Cake.  You can sprinkle powdered sugar onto the whole mess if you want.  

It seems like a horrible idea.  The execution is questionable at best.  But it also sounds not only delicious, but something that people would come up to you and ask about if you carried one of these things around a carnival.   And after all, isn't that what carnie food is all about?  It's not all that far removed from a funnel cake or an elephant ear, really.  You just have to modify the batter a little bit to be fluffier and have a more cake-like consistency after cooking.  This seems entirely possible.  If you could somehow manage to have the frosting already extruded into the cake during the cooking process, that would be even better.  That seems difficult, though, which is why I invented the two-step process as originally described.  I claim all rights to both processes, of course.  Look for Jeremy's Tube Cakes at a state fair near you!