Easy To Make Hedgehog Birthday Cake

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Ok, so this is nothng to do with retro gaming or technology in general but I thought that I would share anyway.

I originally posted this article back in 2010 after I made this cake for my daughter Issy's birthday.

She wanted a Hedgehog cake for her birthday, and I had noticed previously that Tesco sold ready made Hedgehog cakes.

Tesco Holly Hedgehog Cake - Discontinued

Unfortunately, Tesco had discontinued their hedgehog birthday cakes a few months before Issy's birthday, and so I was reduced to frantically grabbing cake making items and then creating a cake on the fly from imagination.

I was rather pleased with the result though.

After several webspace changes / webspace deletes etc. I thought that the pictures of the cake were lost, but I was pleased to rediscover my cake pics in my Google Album Archive.

I did notice that someone had swiped a pic and added my hedgehog birthday cake to a "Top Ten" list of hedgehog birthday cakes on the internet.

So once again, XX years later... Here is how to make my easy Hedgehog birthday cake.

You will need the following ingredients:
  1. Several small Toblerone's for the Spikes.
  2. Two white chocolate drops for the Eyes.
  3. One Malteser for the Nose.
  4. Two Matchmakers for the Whiskers.
  5. Two Large Chocolate Swiss Rolls for the body.
  6. One pot of Betty Crockers Chocolate Fudge Icing.

And then do the following with those ingredients:
  1. Put the two Swiss rolls next to each other length ways and trim them into an approximate hedgehog head and body shape (Pointed at front and rounded at back).
  2. The bits of the Swiss roll that you trim off, cut up into smaller pieces and use to fill the gap between the top of the two swiss rolls and also to shape that back and head some on top.
  3. Plaster that body shape in Betty Crockers Icing all over. You are aiming for a flattened cone shape on its side, not too pointy at the front and rounded off at the cones base.
  4. Use the icing while still wet to glue the Toblerone spikes to the body.
  5. Add nose, whiskers and eyes.
  6. Dot of icing in middle of each eye.

Job done. Happy Daughter!

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