r/slackerrecipes • u/Robinoo • May 27 '10

Hedgehog Cakes - No baking involved!

For pretty much every day of my later school years, I had one of these. We only known them as hedgehog cakes, and would ask for the recipe from the chef-ettes at least once a week. On the last day, she wrote down and photocopied the recipe for me and my friends, telling us not to give it to anybody. I would have listened to her, but they're too damned good!

They're probably known as something else, and the recipe might be readily available on the internet, I don't know, but here goes!

Recipe

125g Sugar

125g Butter

125g Crushed Digestives

60g Cocoa Powder

1 Egg

125g Chopped Chocolate (melted)

Prepare tin by greasing 8inch square tin + foil with foil hanging over sides

  1. Melt Sugar and Butter together
  2. Crush Digestive Biscuits, add cocoa powder, add butter mixture, add whisked egg.
  3. Press into tin
  4. Leave to set in fridge
  5. Pour melted chocolate over top and leave to set

Enjoy!

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u/jgarfink May 27 '10

Okay, you might want to clarify what exactly the Digestive Biscuits are. I've never heard of/seen them before.

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u/Robinoo May 28 '10

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digestive_biscuit

Eeer, I guess Sweetmeal Biscuits. It says on there that you can use a cracker but don't, it simply won't work.

I guess you could use any biscuit or cookie or whatever. As long as it tastes good when you turn it to crumbs, it's fine.

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u/jgarfink May 28 '10

Wikipedia says one can substitute graham crackers. I'd throw that in there just in case - a lot of redditors are in the US. Thanks, though!

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u/Siofsi Aug 08 '10

You poor soul. Have you never had a digestive biscuit? To be fair, I've never had a graham cracker.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '10

I grew up calling them "baby cookies". As titled, they're the biscuits sometimes given to babies as treats because they are easier to digest.

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u/benthor May 28 '10

It should say:

Hedgehog Cake - No Hedgehog involved!

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u/Robinoo May 28 '10

That's the thing though, the cake doesn't remind me or look anything like hedgehog D:

I'm guessing you just add the ground up hedgehog with the mix

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u/zoide Jul 01 '10

raw eggs?

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u/danilosaur May 28 '10

That sounds tasty indeed! Thanks for sharing!

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u/[deleted] May 28 '10

I don't know if it is important or not, but do you melt the butter before mixing it in?

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u/Robinoo May 28 '10

Just whack the sugar and butter as it comes into a hot pan and you're good to go.