For those with a sweet tooth, any dessert is always a joy. But cakes are always especially popular among people. No celebration can be complete without a sweet treat. And if decorated with all sorts of edible decorations, a congratulatory inscription, birthday candles, then it becomes the main dish of the festive feast.
Let's talk a little about the benefits of cakes
There are no limits to the imagination of confectioners. You can decorate your holiday treat on any theme. Anniversary, personalized, wedding, children's, special purpose cakes - you can't count them all. You can not only treat dear guests with a cake, but also present it as a gift for a personal holiday. The original design of the confectionery product, taking into account the tastes of the hero of the occasion, will be especially appreciated by him.
However, holidays in life do not happen as often as we would like, but you can treat yourself to sweets every day. As you know, sweets can improve people's mood. Especially if the dessert is made from natural high-quality products. The reason for the improvement in well-being is the hormone serotonin, otherwise called the hormone of happiness. Positive reaction to sweets explained high content They contain valuable amino acids that can provide the human body with energy, relieve stress and give positive emotions. Therefore, in order to give a worthy rebuff to life’s difficulties and troubles, you must certainly bring yourself joy by eating at least a little delicious cake.
Easiest to buy ready product in a store where there is always plenty confectionery. But much better tastier cake, made by hand.
Unfortunately, most culinary recipes They differ in the complexity and duration of the preparation process, and there is not always enough time for cooking. So-called cold cakes come to the rescue - products that do not require heat treatment and complex manipulations. The basis of such dishes can be all kinds of cookies, crackers, and crackers. Corn flakes, marshmallows and semi-finished biscuit products are also suitable for the cake. The choice of the main product depends only on the taste of the sweet tooth.
Delicious "Hedgehog"
Hedgehog Cake (no bake) is a classic example. instant cooking sweet treat. To create it you need very little time, plus the invention and imagination of the owner. Making a Hedgehog cake with your own hands is not difficult even for adult men with a sweet tooth. This treat will delight the kids too. This cute animal, the hero of many cartoons, is sure to evoke strong emotions in young children. You should definitely involve your assistants in the cooking process. Joint creative work in the kitchen contributes to the development of imagination in children, enriches them with new knowledge and adds life experience.
Peculiarity
You can read about how to make a Hedgehog cake in cookbooks. Although the cooking principle is described approximately the same everywhere. The only difference is in the ingredients and methods of decorating the product.
Option one. "Hedgehog" biscuit
The most delicious of all types is the Hedgehog cake, created on the basis of the semi-finished product, which can be freely purchased in a confectionery store or in a special section of supermarkets, where biscuits are baked simply behind the counter. If time allows and there is a desire, then you can make the preparation yourself ahead of time.
To prepare the sponge cake, you need fresh chicken eggs and sugar, which should be beaten thoroughly and for a long time with a blender or mixer at the highest speed. The mixture should turn into a strong, stable foam. It is considered ready if a fingerprint remains on the surface.
Next comes a very important moment, on which the quality of the biscuit depends. With great care, flour mixed with potato starch. To prevent the egg-sugar foam from falling off, pour the flour through a fine sieve and mix with gentle, rare movements to evenly distribute the ingredients. The dough is immediately placed in a warm oven and, gradually increasing the temperature, baked until done. The baked biscuit must rest for twelve hours to fully “ripen”.
You can do it differently
Hedgehog cake can be prepared from sponge cake even after a few days, keeping the semi-finished product in the refrigerator. First you need to beat butter cream, consisting of condensed milk, butter and cocoa powder. The sponge cake should be crushed into coarse crumbs. To do this, you can break it with your hands or grate it if the biscuit is already dry. To the resulting crumbs you can add a little cherry jam with berries, chopped walnuts, grated chocolate, cognac and a third of butter cream. The resulting mixture should be mixed until a viscous mass is obtained, from which you can sculpt a hedgehog figurine. For additional hydration, you can add condensed milk a little at a time.
Chocolate glaze is cooked from a mixture of butter, sour cream, sugar and cocoa until thickened over low heat, without boiling. Warm glaze should be applied to the hedgehog's face using a soft brush. The nose and eyes can be made from jelly beans, chocolate-covered peanuts or hazelnuts. The remaining buttercream is applied to the hedgehog using a pastry bag with a spiky star tip. The wonderful Hedgehog cake is ready to serve!
Second option. We use crunchy cookies
The composition of products for a confectionery dish can be changed in accordance with your taste preferences and financial capabilities. In order not to waste time baking a biscuit, you can simply take the most ordinary cookies - poppy seed crunch. The basis for the Hedgehog cake will be prepared from it, the recipe for which is very similar to the recipe
The cookies are easily crushed into fine crumbs using a wooden rolling pin. Powdered sugar, cocoa powder, condensed milk, sour cream and softened butter. The products are mixed into a homogeneous confectionery mass, from which the body of the hedgehog is sculpted.
The finished figurine can be rolled in poppy seeds and decorated with peeled sunflower seeds, imitating needles. The last step is a painstaking process. In order for the DIY “Hedgehog” cake to turn out beautiful, the work must be done carefully and carefully.
Third option. “Maria” and “Zoological” as the basis for “Hedgehog”
It is worth considering another option for how to prepare a cake from Hedgehog cookies. In this case, the basis will be, for example, “Maria” or “Zoological”. Warm water is introduced into the mashed base. chocolate glaze, cooked over low heat from sugar and cocoa powder. Raisins and softened butter are also added to the mixture.
From the resulting sweet mass you need to sculpt a hedgehog with a pointed muzzle and place it on large dish. To avoid any difficulty cutting the cake when serving, line the dish with a sheet of parchment paper.
The final stage. Decor
Then the registration procedure begins. The Hedgehog cake is sprinkled with cocoa powder and decorated with peeled seeds. On the back of the hedgehog you can place fruits and mushrooms made from edible mastic. Such decorations are sold in confectionery stores, but you can make them yourself. The process of creating design elements is reminiscent of classes in creative circles, where various figures are sculpted from plasticine.
Mastic has a plastic consistency and is quite suitable for creating fruits or berries. The easiest way to make mastic is based on condensed milk. It is mixed with milk powder and powdered sugar. To add flavor, you can pour in a few drops of cognac and a couple of spoons lemon juice. Using food coloring, mastic can be easily colored in all sorts of shades.
A no-bake cake is a simple and delicious solution to a difficult problem!
You can please your child with a delicious dessert any day, without waiting for a holiday. Hedgehog cake is not very difficult to prepare, but it is incredibly tasty and will surely appeal to children and adults. The main highlight of the cake is its appearance.
There are two ways to prepare the delicacy. The first involves baking a biscuit, while the second does not require baking (dry cake is used as a basis). crumbly cookies). In general, these two recipes are similar, only the first one will require more time and skill. The cooking process will take about 2 hours. Besides, delicious dough- this is the basis for any dessert, if possible, better cake cook it yourself.
Recipe for “Hedgehog” cake with baking biscuits
For the dough you will need the following ingredients: 
- 100 g semolina;
- 300 g flour;
- 4 medium eggs;
- 200 g sugar;
- 300 g sour cream 20% fat;
- 1 packet of baking powder;
- 1 packet of vanilla.
For the cream you need to take the following products:
- 1 liter of milk;
- 150 g sugar;
- 3 tablespoons of semolina;
- 300 g butter;
- 2 full tablespoons of flour;
- 1 egg.
To decorate the cake you will need the following ingredients:
- 50 g poppy seeds;
- 2 teaspoons cocoa powder;
- 1 bag of peeled sunflower seeds;
- 2 teaspoons cocoa powder;
- raisins to make a nose and eyes for the hedgehog.
Cake making method
We begin the work by preparing the dough for the cakes. To do this, beat the eggs with sugar and vanilla until a white thick foam forms. Add one packet of baking powder and sour cream to the mixture. Mix everything carefully or beat with a mixer. Add 100 g semolina and 300 g flour. Mix everything well. The dough is ready.
Then you need to bake two cakes (one slightly larger, the other smaller), for which you should divide the dough, most of which should be placed on a baking dish, previously greased with butter. The mold should be placed in the oven for 20-25 minutes. The readiness of the cakes can be checked using a toothpick or match. To do this, stick it into the cake: if it is ready, the toothpick will remain dry, without sticking dough. The second cake is baked in the same way.
Bye ready-made cakes will cool down, you can start preparing the cream. To do this, beat the egg, sugar and 150 g of milk. Add flour little by little, in small portions, so that lumps do not form. And the rest of the milk is added to the resulting slurry, the mixture in a saucepan is put on fire. The cream must be stirred constantly until it thickens. The main thing is that it doesn’t burn. Immediately after boiling, the cream must be removed from the heat.
After the sweet mass has cooled, add soft butter to it and mix everything with a mixer until smooth.
The crucial stage begins when the cake is formed. The main thing is to approach this matter creatively.
The Hedgehog cake will definitely delight children with its taste.
It is advisable to make the treat not only tasty, but also funny. Your child may want to help you prepare dessert.
When finishing preparing the cake, you need to take a larger cake layer and cut off the edges so that it becomes an almond-shaped shape. Then this cake needs to be thoroughly greased with cream and left for a while. After this, take the second cake and crumble it into large pieces, fill them mostly custard, mix well and place on the first cake layer, forming a hedgehog figurine with a nose and ears.
To decorate, mix 2 tablespoons of cream with cocoa powder to obtain a dark mass, which should be used to cover the hedgehog’s face; its body should be spread with white cream. This part of the cake should be generously sprinkled with poppy seeds and seeds should be inserted into it, which will act as “needles”. And from raisins you can make eyes and a nose for a hedgehog. For these purposes, you can also use prunes and candied fruits or small sweets.
There are cakes where hedgehog “needles” are made from the same chocolate custard using a pastry syringe with a special attachment. True, such a cake will turn out to be quite high in calories. Can be added to cakes when baking canned cherries, then the hedgehog comes with a surprise inside. You can experiment with the dough in different ways.
The above recipe is not entirely easy to implement. There is a lightweight version of the cake without baking, which can be made in an hour. This option is perfect for busy mothers who have little free time.
Cake "Hedgehog" without baking
Ingredients needed: 1 kg of crumbly fresh cookies, 2 cans of condensed milk, 200 g of sour cream, 200 g powdered sugar, 3 spoons of cocoa powder, 200 g of butter, a bag of peeled sunflower seeds, chocolate-covered peanuts for decoration.
First, knead the cookies thoroughly. This can be done using a blender (coffee grinder) or a regular mortar. The ingredient should look like small crumbs. Then cocoa powder and powdered sugar are added to the cookies, and condensed milk is gradually poured into the resulting dry mass. Softened butter and sour cream are also added here. The dough should be quite thick and flexible. If it turns out liquid, you need to add crushed cookies.
Then comes the main moment, namely sculpting the hedgehog. The resulting mass should turn out to be a hedgehog without “needles.” After preparing the base, be sure to roll the hedgehog in poppy seeds (until completely covered) and begin making “needles.” For this, peeled seeds are used again. A nose and mouth are made from chocolate covered peanuts. Raspberries and a variety of candies and cookies in the shape of mushrooms will look very good on such a cake. It will seem that the hedgehog has already been to the forest and harvested. You need to be creative when making a cake.
Thanks to a flight of fancy, the cake will not only turn out amazingly tasty, but will also delight children with its appearance. This dessert can be great holiday treat at a child’s birthday party, delighting guests with taste and appearance. The main thing is to learn to give the required form cake. Everything will definitely work out!
I bring to your attention a spectacular and very tasty children's cake Hedgehogs. It has everything our kids love: soft chocolate sponge cake; bright, melt-in-your-mouth sponge cake made with yolks; butter cream with boiled condensed milk and butter cream, which acts as decoration. I came up with the idea of decorating a homemade cake in the shape of a summer meadow into which a friendly family of hedgehogs came out especially for my daughter. She loves animals very much and was simply delighted with such a surprise. Surprise your kids too, and I’ll tell you in detail how to prepare this at home.
Now let's look at the list of ingredients. It turns out to be quite impressive, but we won’t need exotic products.
- butter - 100g;
- egg yolks - 7 pcs.;
- milk - 100 g;
- sugar - 100 g;
- vanillin - 1 pinch;
- flour - 150 gr;
- baking powder - 1 tsp. no slide.
- chicken eggs - 4 pcs.;
- flour - 100 gr;
- sugar - 120 gr;
- vanillin - a pinch;
- cocoa powder - 20 g;
- instant coffee - 1 tbsp;
- boiling water - 2 tbsp;
- baking powder - 1 tsp;
- refined vegetable oil.
Coffee impregnation:
- boiling water ‒ ½ tbsp.;
- instant coffee - 1 tbsp;
- sugar - 2 tbsp;
- cognac (optional) - 1-2 tbsp.
- cream with a fat content of 33% and above - 400 g;
- boiled condensed milk - 300 gr.
Green buttercream for decoration:
- cream with a fat content of 33% and above - 150 g;
- powdered sugar - 100 g or to taste;
- green food coloring.
- egg whites - 3 pcs.;
- sugar - 150 gr;
- butter - 200 gr;
- food colorings.
How to make Hedgehog cake at home
We start working on our future masterpieces by baking biscuits. Separately designed detailed step by step photo recipes you can find the links in the ingredients list. Let me note right away that both biscuits will require 11 eggs. We will use 7 of them completely, but there will still be 4 proteins left. If you, like me, don't like unused leftovers after making a cake, you can... chocolate biscuit take 2 eggs and 4 whites. The result will be excellent, and in addition you will save two whole eggs.
To bake a chocolate sponge cake, use a mold with a diameter of 24 cm. Cool the workpiece and cut it into two layers.
We bake the butter sponge cake in a rectangular shape. I have a little less than the standard 30x40cm. Cut out a circle with a diameter of 24 cm from the layer. The remainder will be used to prepare hedgehogs.
Previously, I told in great detail how you can prepare a very tasty buttercream with boiled condensed milk. Link to go in the list of ingredients.
I additionally decided to soak the chocolate sponge cake. I prepared the simplest impregnation. I poured sugar and coffee into a glass, added boiling water, stirred and cooled. I always add cognac to the cooled liquid. I am deeply confident that 1 tablespoon of cognac for a whole cake will not affect the well-being of children in any way and will definitely not be addictive. 🙂 And you see for yourself and decide what to do according to your convictions.
Using a teaspoon or brush, evenly saturate the layers of chocolate biscuit from the cut side.
Place a tablespoon of cream on a dish and place the first layer of chocolate on top of it, cut side up. Spread half the cream over it.
Then we put butter sponge cake, the remaining cream and the second chocolate layer, cut side down. We remove assembled cake in the refrigerator.
For the second cream, combine the chilled cream with powdered sugar and a small amount green food coloring. Beat everything until stable and dense. I strongly advise NOT to use dyes for easter eggs. It is strictly forbidden to eat them. If you want to make beautiful children's cakes, get safe dyes: dry powder or gel.
All that remains is to let the hedgehogs out for a walk and create comfortable conditions for them: plant flowers and grass in a fairy-tale meadow.
To do this, I used “star” type attachments, and “planted” the grass using the attachment of the same name, already known to you from making hedgehogs. We decorate the centers of the flowers with confectionery pearls. Don't forget to pay attention to the sides of the cake. Along the top and bottom, masking the unevenness, we plant borders using a “leaf” attachment or any other attachment of your choice. To complete the picture, we plant pink flowers between the borders.
Place the cake in the refrigerator overnight. In the morning we not only admire our masterpiece, but also photograph it from all sides and with everyone. 🙂
And now the most awaited moment has come - tasting.
I'm just sure that this one is soft, soaked and decorated delicious cream sponge cake Hedgehogs will appreciate everything, and you will gain fame as a brilliant pastry chef.
Prepare beautiful and delicious children's birthday cakes at home. Delicious and beautiful homemade masterpieces to you!!!
Description
Cake "Hedgehog" will be a wonderful decoration for any table! There is nothing complicated in preparing it, the main thing is to stock up on everything necessary ingredients in advance so that during the cooking process you don’t suddenly discover that you are missing something.
You can experiment with the cake filling as you please. You can prepare the cream that you like best and it will not harm the cake at all.
When it comes to decorating a cake in the shape of a hedgehog, you first need to work a little with the ingredients for it. Take the marzipan prepared in advance and make a small depression in the mass, then add the dye there and begin to knead thoroughly until the color is evenly distributed. If in the end the shade is not too saturated, you should repeat the procedure from the beginning.
To get several multi-colored pieces of marzipan, you need to repeat all the above steps with each of them separately. So, if you are planning to make a cake in the shape of a hedgehog with your own hands, then our master class with step by step photos will become you a great assistant during the cooking process.
Ingredients
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Cooking steps
First we need to make a sponge cake. To do this, take a container in which it will be convenient to beat the ingredients, and break 4 eggs into it. After this, add sugar and begin to beat intensively until the mass becomes homogeneous and increases several times, acquiring a creamy hue.
After this, you can add the sifted flour and baking powder, continuing to beat. Then we transfer the dough into a mold, which we have previously greased with oil, and put it in the oven. It must be preheated to 200 degrees. The dough should be baked for 20-25 minutes.
You can check the readiness of the biscuit with your hand. It will be more reliable than a stick. To know if it is ready, you need to lightly press it with your hand. If after pressing there is a hole left, then you should wait a little longer.
When the sponge cake is ready, take it out of the oven and, depending on how tall it turns out, cut it into two or three parts, each of which needs to be greased with cream.
The cream is prepared very simply: melt the butter over low heat, put the condensed milk in a container in which it will be convenient to whip it. Then pour the condensed milk with melted butter and begin to beat thoroughly until the mass turns out to be light brown. After this, we begin preparing the decoration.
Make a sponge cake for the base of the cake decoration. The amount of ingredients depends on what size hedgehogs you want to make. The photo shows a sponge cake made from 8 eggs for a large hedgehog.
Using a small and convenient knife, cut out an oval shape - the basis for the sponge hedgehog.
Using scissors, trim the edges and “bevel” them slightly.
Now you need to lubricate the figure with cream. We make the cream from biscuit scraps. Add any of your favorite jam to them and mix to get a thick, homogeneous mass.
Using our hands, we give the figure a shape similar to a hedgehog and wait until the mass dries on it.
Now take the pre-painted marzipan, roll it out on the table and cut out a piece in a shape resembling a triangle.
We take the resulting piece of marzipan and carefully wrap it around the side of our hedgehog where its muzzle will be.
To make the spines, we need a pastry bag and a special nozzle for it, which looks like this.
We take a pastry bag, put cream in it and begin to make “thorns”, trying to place them as close to each other as possible so that there are no “bald patches”.
Now let's start making the legs and ears. For this we need sugar mastic and marzipan. Cut out small semicircles and give them the shape of ears.
We make the paws in the shape of a “droplet” and use a small knife to cut two short strips.
The eyes and nose can be made from dragees or cream, depending on your imagination. We decided to make them from mastic and marzipan, which we painted in advance.
Now we take a thin brush, food coloring and remember our drawing lessons in elementary school. Carefully draw a mouth for the hedgehog, tint the eyes, nose, and use a wide brush to make red cheeks.
We cover the cake with mastic or coat it with cream on all sides, place our hedgehog on it, let the cake brew and the treat is ready! Now you can safely treat your guests and household members to it! Children will be delighted with this dessert!
Bon appetit!
“Hedgehog” cake is one of the most popular desserts that caring grandmothers and mothers prepare for children's parties. The funny face of the animal, peeking out from under its prickly “fur coat,” has not left children of all ages and their parents indifferent for many years.
The main difficulty in preparing the dish is assembling it. Here you need to show the talents of the sculptor and apply all your care and diligence to make a beautiful hedgehog with a cute face and even rows of needles from sunflower seeds. The time spent making such a dessert will not be in vain, because all efforts will be fairly rewarded by the genuine delight of the guests.
The cake usually consists of standard sponge cakes, layered with cream, with the addition of all kinds of dried fruits and nuts. They are cut and laid in a certain shape, decorated on top with various trimmings that form the head and spines of the hedgehog. To do this, use powdered sugar, icing, cocoa powder and chocolate chips, cream and much more.
There are also “lazy” dessert recipes. In this case, the cakes are not baked, but a special soft mass is made based on ready-made sponge cake, cookies, gingerbread and butter (condensed milk). It is supplemented with various ingredients, and then the body of the hedgehog is molded from it, which is also decorated with cream and colorful decorations.
Which of the recipes below to choose for yourself can be easily decided by trying them out in practice.
Cake “Hedgehog” with cherries, chocolate and sour cream
Adorable hedgehog with oil needles chocolate cream carrying delicious cherries. Inside the cake is made of chocolate sponge cake, layered sour cream and flavored walnuts and cherries.
List of ingredients:
Dough:
- Chicken egg – 5 pcs.
- Semolina – 100 g.
- Wheat flour – 250 g.
- Sugar – 100-200 g.
- Flavoring (vanillin or cinnamon) – 1 pack. or 10 g.
- Baking powder – 1 pack.
- Cocoa powder – 70 g.
Butter chocolate cream:
- Cocoa powder – 40-50 g.
- Condensed milk – 100 g.
- Butter – 150 g.
Sour cream:
- Full-fat sour cream – 300 g.
- Powdered sugar – 150-200 g.
Decoration and filling:
- Thick cherry jam with whole berries – 100 g.
- Walnuts – 100 g.
- Jelly (marmalade) balls – 5-6 pcs.
- Cocktail cherries – 3-4 pcs. (optional).
- Large yellow raisins – 2 pcs.
- Cocoa – 20 g.
- Powdered sugar – 20 g.
Cooking method:
- Grind the eggs until white with sugar, sift into them semolina, cocoa powder, wheat flour, flavorings and baking powder.
- Knead into a thick but pourable dough. Bake two biscuits from it, preheating the oven to 190 degrees.
- The biscuits must cool completely. Cut one of them into two cake layers.
- Cut the bottom cake into a hedgehog shape, chop the rest of the biscuit into coarse crumbs (small cubes).
- Make two types of cream. For sour cream, you need to dry the sour cream in advance by hanging it in a piece of gauze over a bowl for two or three hours. Beat the resulting curd mass together with powdered sugar until fluffy.
- For the chocolate cream, first beat the slightly soft butter. Then add thick condensed milk to it in small parts and mix each time with a mixer. Cocoa powder is poured in last. This cream must be cooled before use.
- Pour boiling water over the walnuts and wait until the bitter husks come off. Dry them in a dry frying pan or paper towels. Chop coarsely.
- Mix biscuit cubes with sour cream, cherry jam and chopped nuts. For more sweetness, you can add condensed milk. Place on the main crust in a hedgehog shape.
- Cover the entire surface of the cake with chocolate cream. Make the muzzle matte using cocoa powder mixed with powdered sugar. Make the nose and mouth from marmalade balls. The eyes are made of large yellow or black raisins.
- Cool the rest of the chocolate cream further and place it in a pastry syringe with a special attachment.
- Make “needles” from chocolate cream on the hedgehog’s body.
- Decorate the needles with jam cherries or more decorative cocktail cherries.
- Cool the cake in the refrigerator for an hour and a half and serve.
Cake "Hedgehog" with poppy seeds
A “bald” animal without needles, generously sprinkled with poppy seeds instead. You can complicate your task and decorate the cake with sunflower seeds on top of the poppy sprinkles, but this is a long and painstaking job. And without the seeds, the cake turns out pretty cute.
From the specified amount of products, approximately 1.5-2 kilogram cake is obtained.
List of ingredients:
Dough:
- Chicken egg – 4 pcs.
- Semolina – 250 g.
- Wheat flour – 250 g.
- Full-fat sour cream – 350 g.
- Vanillin in sugar - 1 pack.
- Baking powder – 1.5 pack.
- Butter – 200 g.
- Poppy beans – 50 g.
- Sugar – 150 g.
- Salt.
Custard cream:
- Milk – 1 l.
- Sugar – 100 g.
- Cocoa powder – 30 g.
- Butter – 200 g.
- Chicken egg – 1 pc.
- Wheat flour – 70 g.
- Semolina – 50 g.
Decoration and fillers:
- Prunes – 50 g.
- Other dried fruits for decoration.
- Sunflower seeds.
- Poppy beans – 100g.
- Cocoa powder – 30 g.
- Powdered sugar – 50 g.
Cooking method:
- Grind the eggs white with sugar and mix with fat sour cream and part of the poppy seeds.
- Add semolina, baking powder, flavoring, and salt to the flour. Gradually add the resulting dry mixture to the eggs and sugar.
- The dough should be thick but pourable. It needs to be divided into two equal parts.
- Grease a baking dish with butter and bake two cakes. Each cake requires 20 to 30 minutes at a temperature of 170-180 degrees.
- While the dough is baking, you can prepare the custard. To do this, beat 200 ml chicken egg into a fluffy mass. milk and sugar.
- Using a whisk, mix into this mixture wheat flour and semolina.
- Dilute the entire cream base with the remaining milk and place on low heat.
- Stirring constantly, cook thick cream with the consistency of liquid semolina porridge. Pour about a fifth of it into a separate bowl, add cocoa powder to most of it.
- The cream should not be allowed to boil; after the first bubbles appear, it must be removed from the stove.
- Cool the white and chocolate mass before room temperature and beat them separately with a mixer along with butter. Cool.
- Cut one of the biscuits lengthwise into two layers. Cut the bottom one so that you get a drop shape, where the narrow part will be the face of a hedgehog.
- Coat this “drop” generously with chocolate custard.
- Soak prunes in warm water and sort through. Leave two pieces for decoration, cut the rest into strips.
- Crush the remaining one and a half sponge cake into large pieces and mix with 2/3 of the custard and prunes.
- Place the sweet mass on the base, giving it the appearance of a hedgehog.
- Grease everything with cream on top. The muzzle is white, and the body is chocolate.
- The muzzle can be additionally sprinkled with powdered sugar. You also need to make button eyes and pointed ears from prunes.
- Sprinkle the chocolate part of the hedgehog generously with poppy seeds and, if desired, decorate with “needles” of sunflower seeds.
- The assembled cake needs to sit for about an hour or two and cool in the refrigerator. After this, you can safely serve it to the table.
Lazy hedgehog cake with assorted nuts and fruits
The name speaks for itself. The most technologically simplified cake recipe, which includes a real scattering of nuts and dried fruits. The base of the cake is a sweet mass made from shortbread cookies and butter. It doesn't require baking. To reduce the calorie content of the “dough”, you can take equal parts shortbread and Lenten cookies like "Crocket", "Maria".
From the specified amount of products, approximately 1.5-2 kilogram cake is obtained.
List of ingredients:
Dough:
- Shortbread cookies – 500-600 g.
- Butter – 150-200 g.
- Sugar – 100 g.
- Vanillin in sugar – 1 pack.
Caramel cream:
- Boiled condensed milk – 250 g (1 can).
- Butter – 150 g.
Filling:
- Raisins – 100 g.
- Dates – 50 g.
- Roasted peanuts – 50 g.
- Hazelnuts – 50 g.
- Figs or dried apricots – 50 g.
- Almonds – 50 g.
- Walnut – 50 g.
Decoration:
- Whipped cream in a container – 100 g.
- Condensed milk – 50 g.
- Cold water – 20-30 ml.
- Ready-made decorations from mastic or marmalade (apples, flowers, butterflies).
- Cocoa powder – 20 g.
- Sublimated coffee – 20 g.
- Powdered sugar – 20 g.
- Black raisins – 3 pcs.
Cooking method:
- Mix the broken cookies in the bowl of a food processor into a dense crumbly mass along with butter, sugar and flavoring. Three four shortbread cookies leave for sprinkling the cake.
- Divide the resulting lump into two unequal parts (30 to 70%). Wrap most of it in plastic cling film and cool in the refrigerator.
- Place a small piece on a cake plate according to the shape of the future hedgehog.
- Pass the frozen dough through a meat grinder, immediately cutting the ribbons into smaller pieces with a knife.
- Chop and fry all the nuts, pre-soaking them in boiling water if necessary to remove the bitter skin. Soak dried fruits in hot water, sort and chop finely.
- Combine the dough “crumbs” with chopped nuts and dried fruits.
- Make the cream by whipping soft butter with condensed milk and cooling the mixture.
- Carefully mix the nut-fruit mixture with caramel cream (leave a little for the top) and spread it over the surface of the base, molding the body of the hedgehog.
- Coat the top of the hedgehog with the remainder caramel cream and sprinkle with fine crushed shortbread cookies.
- Highlight the face using powdered sugar mixed with cocoa powder.
- Make eyes and a mouth from dried fruits (raisins, dried apricots), securing them with cream.
- In a blender bowl, combine a thick coffee solution (powder and cold water), whipped cream and condensed milk. The result will be coffee cream.
- Pipe the needles with coffee cream from a pastry syringe with a special attachment.
- If desired, decorate with ready-made mastic or marmalade decorations.
- Place in the refrigerator for an hour and a half to infuse and cool.
