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This hedgehog cake tastes moist, creamy, tender and chocolaty. With its cute appearance, it is ideal for a kids birthday party. You can make it at home using common ingredients and without much effort. You can find a detailed chocolate hedgehog cake recipe with the exact quantities and step-by-step instructions below.
Refine with nuts
You can add a change of flavor to the hedgehog cake with nuts, just like to the chocolate sausage. Walnut kernels or peanuts, for example, go very well with this.
Roast the nuts in a frying pan or in the oven beforehand and leave them to cool. Then chop them coarsely and mix into the cake mixture.
Quick no-bake hedgehog cake alternative
You can also make this chocolate hedgehog cake quickly without baking. Simply use ready-made butter cookies, just like for the kartoshka made from cookies recipe, instead of preparing the cake base yourself. Crumble them finely and mix them with the cream, just as the recipe says.
You will then have to find the right amount of cookies yourself. Add as much of them to the cake cream until you have a malleable mixture, similar to the classic kartoshka cake, chocolate kartoshka or kartoshka made from rusk.
Decorating the chocolate hedgehog cake
Raisins, poppy seeds and sunflower seeds transform the cake into a real-looking hedgehog. Although it takes a while to place the “spikes”, it is worth it in the end. Not only do they make the cake look great, they also give it a nutty note.
You can also decorate the cake with the Russian mushroom cookies. For a big party, the tree stump cake fits perfectly on the coffee table.
Eye-catcher for kids birthday party
In addition to the turtle cake and the cake “Muraveynik”, the chocolate hedgehog cake is perfect for a kids birthday party. Its appearance is guaranteed to make the little ones’ eyes light up. The cake is also quite large, so it’s big enough for lots of people.
This hedgehog cake is
- moist,
- creamy,
- tender,
- chocolatey,
- incredibly delicious,
- with a nutty note from the sunflower seeds,
- easy to make with ordinary ingredients,
- a cute eye-catcher on the coffee table,
- ideal for a kids birthday party.
How to make hedgehog cake: tips and tricks
- The amount of flour specified in the recipe for the cake base may vary. Add as much flour to the liquid mixture until you have a very soft dough. It must not become too dry.
- Don’t knead the dough for too long so that the cake base is crumbly and tender after baking.
- For a quick no-bake hedgehog cake version, you can use ready-made butter cookies for the cake mixture instead of baking the cake base yourself. Read more about this in the article above.
- You can refine the cake with roasted and roughly chopped nuts by mixing them into the cake mixture.
- The cake tastes even better over the next few days than it does straight after preparation. So you can prepare it in advance for a party.
Did you make the chocolate hedgehog cake using this recipe? I look forward to your result, your star rating and your comment below on how it turned out and how you liked it.
Try out these other unusual cake recipes:
- Sun cake recipe – perfect for baby or christening party
- Winter hat cake – recipe for fancy knit hat cake
- Cake “Grafskie razvaliny” – with meringue and without flour
Hedgehog cake
Ingredients
for the dough
- 250 g butter room warm
- 2 eggs room warm
- 150 g sugar
- approx. 580 g flour
- 1 pinch of ground vanilla bean
- 1 pinch of salt
- flour for rolling out
for the cream
- 550 g sweetened condensed milk
- 200 g sour cream
- 150 g butter room warm
- 30 g cocoa powder
to decorate
- approx. 50 g sunflower seeds roasted
- approx. 20 g ground poppy seeds
- 3 raisins
Instructions
Preparation of the dough
- Beat softened butter, sugar, vanilla and salt for approx. 5 minutes to form a creamy fluffy, light-colored mixture.
- Add eggs one at a time and beat briefly each time to form a homogeneous mixture.
- Add flour in batches and knead briefly and quickly to form a soft dough.
- Shape the dough into a sheet, cover and chill for 40 minutes.
- Roll the dough sheet lightly in flour, roll it out to the size of the baking sheet on a sheet of baking paper to a thickness of approx. 1 cm and place the baking paper with the dough on the baking sheet.
- Bake the cake base in a preheated oven at 356 °F (180 °C) for approx. 20 minutes, leave to cool and crumble finely.
Preparation of the cream
- Mix chopped soft butter, sweetened condensed milk, sour cream and cocoa powder in a large mixing bowl with a whisk to form a homogeneous mixture.
Preparation of the hedgehog cake
- Add the cake base crumbs to the cream and mix to a homogeneous chocolate mixture.
- Shape the chocolate mixture into a hedgehog on a cake plate.
- If the mixture is too dry, add a little sweetened condensed milk or sour cream. If it is mushy, chill it for about 30 minutes before shaping the hedgehog.
- Sprinkle the hedgehog, except for its face, with poppy seeds.
- Place sunflower seeds all over the poppy seed-covered surface as the hedgehog's spines.
- Make the hedgehog's eyes and nose out of raisins.
- Chill the chocolate hedgehog cake for about 2 hours.
Notes
- The amount of flour specified for the cake base may vary. Add as much flour to the liquid mixture until you have a very soft dough. It must not become too dry.
- Don't knead the dough for too long so that the cake base is crumbly and tender after baking.
- You can refine the cake with roasted and roughly chopped nuts by mixing them into the cake mixture.
- The cake tastes even better over the next few days than it does straight after preparation. So you can prepare it in advance for a party.
- Note the detailed tips and tricks for making the hedgehog cake at the top of the article.
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