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Old Fashioned Hedgehog Cake Recipe


Old Fashioned Hedgehog Cake Recipe
* Doesn't actuall contain any small woodland animals. The first time my boyfriend came over, this is what i gave him with coffee. Everyone loves this, I make it for something sweet when we take food parcels down to my grandpa. Its mega easy and can... More

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Ingredients
  • 4 oz butter
  • 4 oz sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 1 Tbsp cocoa powder (heaped)
  • 180g packet plain biscuits (like arrowroot, or milk coffee etc)
  • 1 cup icing sugar
  • pink food colouring

Directions
  1. Break up the biscuits into like...i dunno..half-centimetre sized chunks....(NOT crushed like you would for a cheesecake base).
  2. In a medium saucepan, cream together the butter and sugar, then mix in the egg and cocoa.
  3. Bring to boil for one minute (stirring). Remove from heat.
  4. Add the broken biscuits and mix it all up good.
  5. transfer mixture to a lined slice tin, press it down firmly.
  6. Mix up your pink icing and spread it over the top.
  7. Put it in the fridge to cool....a few hours.
  8. Cut into like..fingers to serve.

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Comments


Ah! not the Hedgehog cake I used to make 30yrs ago, it was a butter sponge and chocolate buttercream effort, shaped like a Hedgehog and studded with toasted flaked almonds, oh the fun they had, the French for Hedgehog was a little too close to my surname for comfort, ha ha thankyou chef, like you didnt make the same joke last time.....must try your hedgehog recipie in the resto, cheers m'dear.


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