Hedgehog cake is a simple dessert that will be a spectacular decoration for a children's holiday. In addition to external attractiveness, he has incredible softness and juiciness, which are legendary.

Classic recipe

To prepare a hedgehog dessert, you need:

  • 200 g of flour;
  • 6 eggs;
  • 300 g of sugar;
  • 350 g butter;
  • 1 can of condensed milk;
  • 100 g of starch;
  • 100 g of cocoa;
  • 15 ml sour cream;
  • as much cognac;
  • 50 ml of jam;
  • 100 g of walnuts.

In the process of cooking:

  1. Eggs are hammered into a bowl, which are mixed with ⅔ sugar in the foam. Then a mixture of ⅓ cocoa, starch and flour is poured into the contents.
  2. A biscuit is baked from the resulting mass of a homogeneous structure for about 25 minutes at 180 ° C.
  3. After cooling, a chip is prepared from a biscuit.
  4. Condensed milk is boiled and used to prepare the cream by whipping with ⅔ butter and ⅓ cocoa.
  5. The cream is divided into larger and smaller parts. Most is placed in a bowl, where it is mixed with jam, cognac, chopped nuts and biscuit chips.
  6. The base of the “hedgehog” is formed from the mass mixed to homogeneity, the muzzle of which is painted with glaze. It is cooked in advance in a saucepan of sour cream, remaining butter and cocoa.
  7. "Needles" are made using a pastry syringe filled with the second part of the cream.

How to cook without baking

Hedgehog cake without baking can often be found in pastry shops.

If desired, dessert can be prepared independently from:

  • 2 cans of condensed milk;
  • 1 kg of shortbread cookies;
  • 200 ml of sour cream;
  • 50 g of cocoa;
  • 150 g butter;
  • 200 g of powdered sugar;
  • 50 g of poppy
  • a small amount of peanuts.

Working process:

  1. Cookies are crushed into crumbs, which are mixed with powder in a deep bowl.
  2. Everything is filled with cocoa and filled with condensed milk.
  3. Next, soft butter and sour cream are laid out.
  4. A mass with a homogeneous consistency is manually kneaded, after which the body of the hedgehog is formed.
  5. Then it falls off in the poppy so that the muzzle remains clean.
  6. Peanuts make eyes and nose

Based on biscuit

Sponge cake “Hedgehog” is one of the popular desserts, which will take much less time to prepare if you buy ready-made cakes.

You will need:

  • 1 can of boiled condensed milk;
  • a pack of butter weighing 250 g;
  • food coloring;
  • 2 biscuits;
  • marzipan;
  • dragees and peanuts;
  • jam.

Creation Method:

  1. A cream is prepared from butter, melted over low heat, and boiled condensed milk.
  2. An oval is cut from the biscuit for the base of the hedgehog.
  3. Chips are prepared from the second biscuit, which is mixed with jam.
  4. The mixture covers the biscuit base.
  5. From a pre-painted marzipan, a triangle is cut out with the help of which the animal's muzzle is created.
  6. Eyes and nose are made from dragees with peanuts. Needles are created using a cream squeezed out of a syringe with a special nozzle.

Cake "Hedgehog in the fog"

The basis of a delicious dessert is strawberry jam, which was so bravely carried by the Hedgehog Teddy Bear in the Soviet cartoon of the same name.

To execute the recipe you need:

  • 500 ml of strawberry jam;
  • 15 g of soda;
  • 250 ml of kefir;
  • 300 g of sugar;
  • 2 eggs;
  • 600 g flour;
  • 250 ml sour cream;
  • chocolate peanuts.

The main stages of preparation:

  1. From jam, aged with soda for 15 minutes, as well as kefir, ⅔ sugar, eggs and flour, a dough is prepared.
  2. A biscuit is baked on a baking sheet, then dividing along several parts. An oval is cut from each.
  3. Workpieces are greased with whipped sour cream with the remaining sugar.
  4. The "coat" of the hedgehog is created with cream.
  5. A peanut in chocolate is made into a muzzle.

With butter cream

A delicious variation of the recipe, the execution of which requires a simple set of products:

For biscuit dough:

  • 6 eggs;
  • 300 g of sugar;
  • 200 g of flour;
  • 100 g of starch.

For cocoa butter cream:

  • 300 g butter;
  • ⅔ cans of condensed milk;
  • 40 g of cocoa.

For chocolate icing

  • a piece of butter;
  • 15 g of cocoa;
  • as much sugar;
  • 20 ml of sour cream and cherry jam;
  • 15 ml of brandy;
  • 100 g of walnuts;
  • ⅓ cans of condensed milk.

To decorate:

  • dragees, berries.

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. Sponge cake is baked from eggs whipped with sugar, as well as sifted flour and starch. After, he infuses in the cold for 12 hours. This will help prevent its sagging when impregnated with syrup.
  2. Using a mixer, the butter is whipped with the indicated amount of condensed milk and cocoa to an airy structure.
  3. Cakes are grated, after which the resulting crumb is mixed with ⅓ of the cream, cherry jam, cognac and chopped nuts.
  4. A hedgehog silhouette is formed from a fragrant sweet composition.
  5. Next, the ingredients for the glaze are sent to the pan, which is immediately put on the stove. Its contents are boiled until sugar is completely dissolved.
  6. When the mass has cooled, a glaze is applied with a brush to the muzzle.
  7. The body of the animal is covered with the remaining cream in the form of needles.
  8. You can use dragees to create a peephole.
  9. Berries are distributed over the needles to create a more spectacular appearance of a delicious dessert.

With seeds

Creating a "Hedgehog" will certainly interest children who will help decorate such a "beast" with seeds.

It is enough to prepare in advance:

  • 200 g of chocolate dates;
  • as many walnuts;
  • carob;
  • 2 bananas;
  • 150 g dried apricots;
  • 50 ml of honey;
  • raisins and seeds.

While creating:

  1. Bananas are whipped with honey using a blender.
  2. Pitted dried fruits interfere with the whipped mass, and peeled and crushed nuts are added in equal portions.
  3. From the well-kneaded dough, the body of the animal is formed, which is covered with carob (except for the part intended for the muzzle).
  4. Seeds are stuck in the body as needles.
  5. Eyes and nose are made with raisins.

It is interesting: the benefits and harms of carob

DIY cake in the shape of a hedgehog

Upon seeing this cake, every mother will definitely want to surprise her baby with such a sweet surprise with a cute little face. To prepare a dessert in the form of a hedgehog, you will need to prepare the products according to the list presented.

For biscuit:

  • 5 eggs;
  • 250 g of sugar;
  • 250 g semolina;
  • 70 g of flour.

For custard:

  • 250 g of sugar;
  • 2 eggs;
  • 15 g of flour;
  • 20 g of starch;
  • a pack of oil weighing 200 g.

For interlayer and decoration:

  • 3 peaches;
  • 100 g of poppy seeds and seeds.

How to make a cake yourself:

  1. Flour with semolina is poured into beaten eggs with sugar, after which the kneaded dough is baked until cooked.
  2. Peaches are diced and boiled.
  3. Sugar, eggs, starch and flour are mixed in a pan, where milk is poured after boiling.
  4. After cooling, the base of the cream is whipped with oil.
  5. A hedgehog form is prepared from the cooled biscuit, which is covered with cream.
  6. Peaches are distributed on top, which are sprinkled with crumbs from biscuit scraps to give the hedgehog volume.
  7. The voluminous silhouette is again smeared with a creamy composition.
  8. The muzzle is white and is decorated with raisins.
  9. The body is sprinkled with poppy seeds.
  10. Pre-fried sunflower seeds are stuck as needles.
  11. The cake goes cold for 8 hours to soak.

Hedgehog cake is a wonderful sweet surprise, which will be appreciated not only by the child, but also by adults gathered for the holiday. It is simple to perform, interesting and tasty. What else is needed for a festive dessert?

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