The Redditor who pointed out that Hostess uses different ingredients when making Ding Dongs now wasn't wrong. An old box from 1967 shows that Ding Dongs used to be made from sugar, shortening, flour, water, cocoa, chocolate, nonfat dry milk, corn syrup, eggs, leavening, salt, starch, lecithin, mono and diglycerides, gelatin, and flavor. So that's 16 ingredients total. Modern Ding Dongs