Homemade cake Hedgehogs - children's birthday cake

I bring to your attention a spectacular and very tasty children's cake Hedgehogs. It has everything that our kids love: a soft chocolate biscuit; bright, melting in the mouth, biscuit on yolks; butter cream with boiled condensed milk and butter cream, which acts as a decoration. The design of a homemade cake in the form of a summer meadow, which a friendly family of hedgehogs came out to, I came up with especially for my daughter. She loves animals very much and was just delighted with such a surprise. Surprise your kids, and I will tell you in detail how to cook this children's cake at home.

Now let's take a look at the list of ingredients. It turns out to be quite impressive, but we do not need exotic products.

Butter biscuit on yolks:

• butter - 100g;
• egg yolks - 7 pcs.;
• milk - 100 gr;
• sugar - 100 gr;
• vanillin - 1 pinch;
• flour - 150 gr;
• baking powder - 1 tsp without a slide.

Chocolate biscuit:

• chicken eggs - 4 pcs.;
• flour - 100 gr;
• sugar - 120 gr;
• vanillin - a pinch;
• cocoa powder - 20 gr;
• instant coffee - 1 tablespoon;
• boiling water - 2 tablespoons;
• baking powder - 1 tsp;
• refined vegetable oil.

Coffee impregnation:

• boiling water - ½ st.;
• instant coffee - 1 tablespoon;
• sugar - 2 tablespoons;
• cognac (optional) - 1-2 tbsp.

Butter cream on boiled condensed milk:

• cream with a fat content of 33% and above - 400 gr;
• boiled condensed milk - 300 gr.

Green buttercream for decoration:

• cream with a fat content of 33% and above - 150 gr;
• powdered sugar - 100 gr or to taste;
• green food coloring.

Custard oil-protein cream for decoration

• egg whites - 3 pcs.;
• sugar - 150 gr;
• butter - 200 gr;
• food colorings.

How to make hedgehog cake at home

We begin work on our future masterpieces with baking biscuits. Separately designed detailed step-by-step photo recipes can be found at the links in the list of ingredients. I note right away that for both biscuits you will need 11 eggs. We use 7 of them completely, but there are still 4 proteins left. If you, like me, do not like unused leftovers after making a cake, you can use 2 eggs and 4 egg whites for a chocolate biscuit. The result will be excellent, and besides, you will save two whole eggs.

To bake a chocolate biscuit, we use a mold with a diameter of 24 cm. Cool the workpiece and cut it into two layers.

Butter cake is baked in a rectangular shape. I have a little less than the standard 30x40cm. We cut out a circle with a diameter of 24 cm from the layer. The rest will be used to prepare hedgehogs.

Earlier, I told in great detail how you can cook a very tasty butter cream with boiled condensed milk. Link to go in the list of ingredients.

I additionally decided to soak the chocolate biscuit. Impregnation prepared the simplest. Pour sugar and coffee into a glass, add boiling water, stir and cool. I always add cognac to the cooled liquid. I am deeply convinced 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 look for yourself and decide how to act according to your convictions.

Using a teaspoon or brush, evenly soak the layers of chocolate biscuit from the side of the cut.

We put a tablespoon of cream on a dish, on top of it the first chocolate layer, cut up. We distribute half of the cream over it.

Then, put the butter biscuit, the remaining cream and the second chocolate layer cut down. We remove the collected cake in the refrigerator.

For the second cream, combine chilled cream with powdered sugar and a small amount of green food coloring. We beat everything until a stable dense state. I strongly advise NOT to use dyes for Easter eggs. There is absolutely no way to eat them. If you want to cook beautiful children's cakes, get safe dyes: dry powder or gel.

Coat the chilled sponge cake with green buttercream on top and sides. We try to level the surface a little, especially the side.

How to decorate a children's hedgehog cake

Since we agreed to make the cake festive and spectacular, it remains to prepare a stunning decor. Therefore, we again remove the cake in the refrigerator and go to beat the butter cream on the proteins to decorate the cake.

I divided the finished cream into 4 parts: I tinted 2 of them with pink and blue dyes - for flowers, the third with green - for leaves, and whipped the last part with melted chocolate - for hedgehog needles. The detailed process for making cute hedgehogs is described earlier in this recipe .

It remains to let the hedgehogs out for a walk and create comfortable conditions for them: plant flowers and grass in a fabulous meadow.

To make flowers , I used nozzles of the “asterisk” type, and “planted” the grass with the nozzle of the same name already known to you from making hedgehogs. We decorate the middle of the flowers with confectionery pearls. Don't forget to pay attention to the sides of the cake as well. On the top and bottom, masking the irregularities, we plant the curbs using the “leaf” nozzle or any other at your discretion. To complete the picture, we plant pink flowers between the borders.

We remove the cake in the refrigerator for the night. In the morning, we not only admire our masterpiece, but also take pictures of it from all sides and with everyone. 🙂

And now the most long-awaited moment has come - tasting.

I'm just sure that everyone will appreciate this soft, soaked and decorated with delicious cream biscuit cake Hedgehogs, and you will gain fame as a brilliant confectioner.

Prepare beautiful and delicious children's birthday cakes at home. Delicious and beautiful homemade masterpieces to you!!!