Cake Hedgehogs - homemade cake made from cookies or biscuit crumbs

What mother doesn't want to please her child? One way to express your love is to make a colorful and original children's cake. Today I will tell you how to decorate it so that it leaves an indelible impression not only on children, but also on adults. I believe that all the details and decoration on the cake should be completely edible and accessible to cook even for beginner confectioners. Therefore, I propose to prepare a family of funny hedgehogs from scraps of biscuit. Such an original homemade Hedgehog cake can be used not only as a decoration for a large cake, but also as an independent small dessert. After all, it is prepared on the basis of the well-known and beloved Potato cake.

Cake base ingredients:

• biscuit - 180 gr;
• condensed milk - 2 tablespoons;
• ground walnuts - 70 gr;
• butter - 70 gr.

Cream Ingredients:

• egg white - 1 pc;
• sugar - 50 gr;
• butter 80 gr;
• black chocolate - 50 gr.

First of all, we need to prepare the mass, which serves as the basis for the Potato cake. To do this, you need a ready-made biscuit. I baked it according to this recipe . I used part of it for the cake, and the rest went into the crumb blender. You can use any biscuit, store-bought cookies, or even prepare such a base from crackers and condensed milk.

How to make hedgehog cake

We start cooking by combining biscuit crumbs and ground walnuts in a deep bowl.

Add condensed milk and soft butter to them. Knead with your hands until a homogeneous plastic mass is obtained. It feels like plastic to the touch. If your mixture is too thin, then add a little more crumbs or coconut flakes. We save too dry and crumbly mass by adding condensed milk.

Now you can sculpt the torso of our hedgehogs. According to my idea, a hedgehog mother and two hedgehogs should turn out. Therefore, I divided my mass into two parts. From one I blinded a large body, and divided the second part in half for the bodies of the hedgehogs. We sculpt the bodies like this: we roll a large ball, then we give it the shape of a drop and flatten it a little in a thin part, forming a nose and a muzzle.

We will make needles for hedgehogs from an oil-protein cream. His step by step recipe is here. I immediately prepared a large portion, and then, divided and tinted in the right colors. If you are preparing this cake as an independent dessert, then prepare a white butter cream on one protein, and then add melted and cooled to room temperature chocolate to it. Don't forget to put a teaspoon of chocolate in a pastry bag. From it we will later make eyes and a nose.

Beat the cream again until smooth.

For work, you will need a “grass” nozzle, which you see in the photo. It is suitable not only for creating floral decor. With its help, it is very convenient to make long fur for animals or, in our case, needles for hedgehogs.

Fill the bag with this nozzle with cream. The algorithm for depositing “needles” is as follows: we hold the nozzle perpendicular to the surface, touch the cake, press the bag and tear it off sharply, stopping the pressure. In this case, short standing "needles" are obtained. We draw the nose and eyes with melted chocolate, which we put aside in a pastry bag in advance. Put the finished hedgehogs in the refrigerator so that the cream hardens.

Here we have such cute cakes Potatoes in the form of a hedgehog.

They can be used as a themed decoration for a children's cake . Or make the same size and serve at a children's party as portioned cakes. I know for sure that delight, and not only for children who saw these confectionery masterpieces, is guaranteed to you. 🙂