Homemade biscuit hedgehog cake

8 servings
5 hours

Each of us has favorite memories from childhood, be it a favorite cartoon, toy or treat. I always adored a cartoon about a hedgehog and a bear cub, and I still can't think of a cake potato. I made this cake for my son on September
1. And believe me, there was no limit to enthusiasm, although the son is already in the 6th grade, and I have not seen any cakes in my performance. I put such recipes in a separate stack marked "especially beloved, " because they are an integral part of some important event. Biscuit hedgehog cake is beautiful in every way. Make it a surprise for your child or make it with your baby. Let your fidget fill your hedgehog tummy with fungi, blind your back, ears, decorate the finished cake with berries, and these moments will forever remain a warm memory in your family.

How do I make a sponge cake? Prepare the products. First for the biscuit. Take natural cocoa, without additives. Nesquik-type powder will not work. Wash the eggs well and dry. Leave 4 eggs intact, divide another 4 into yolks and whites. Yolks will go into dough, proteins into cream. Use high-quality butter that meets GOST.

How to make a biscuit? Fold the eggs, yolks, sugar and salt into a refractory bowl. Place it on a pot of boiling water. Heat the mixture in a water bath to 40 degrees, stirring intensively with a whisk. Determine the temperature by touch - it should become noticeably warm. Warmed eggs will be better kept in shape, and the biscuit will be lush even without baking powder. Pour them into a larger container and whisk for 10 minutes until fluffy, white, smooth foam.

Sift the flour and cocoa and combine in a separate bowl. Next, in three stages, add the cocoa flour to the egg mass, gently mixing it with a spatula.

Melt the butter. Read about how to do this at the end of the recipe. Cool it to room temperature. Add 2-3 spoons of dough to the oil and mix well. So it will be easier to introduce oil into the total mass. Mix everything together. The biscuit dough is ready.

Cover the bottom of the form with parchment. Brush the bottom and walls with a drop of vegetable oil. Pour the dough into the tin and send to the oven, heated to 180 ° C for 30-40 minutes. Check your readiness with a wooden skewer or toothpick - it should come out of the middle of the biscuit dry, without sticking dough.

Cool the finished biscuit on a grill. Meanwhile, prepare a soak for the biscuit. How to make impregnation? In the bucket, combine the water, 50 grams of sugar and lemon juice. Boil the mixture for about 3 minutes to dissolve the sugar completely.

While the biscuit bakes and cools, tackle the creams. The first cream is needed to layer the cakes, form the back of the hedgehog and coat the face. How to make a cream? Whisk the mascarpone a little and combine it with the boiled condensed milk. The most important thing is that the condensed milk and mascarpone are of the same temperature, otherwise the cream can separate. Therefore, take the mascarpone out of the refrigerator in advance so that it reaches room temperature.

The second cream will go to the needles. I decided to make a protein and butter cream. Firstly, I still have proteins from biscuit and they need to be put somewhere, and secondly, it is a wonderfully tender and tasty cream that perfectly keeps its shape. Send proteins with sugar and vanilla to a water bath and bring to 70 degrees. This will allow pasteurization of proteins, and they will be magnificent in keeping a lush shape and not falling off. You'll need a thermometer here already.

Beat the warmed whites first at low speeds, then at maximum. The whipped protein mass should be kept on the weddings with a lush hat and not fall out of the bowl, even if it is turned upside down. The squirrels should cool completely while you beat them up.

Add room temperature oil to proteins of 1 teaspoon! This is important, otherwise the cream will separate. The finished cream will be smooth, glossy, with a clear pattern from the corollas.

For hedgehog, we need chocolate cream. I added sifted cocoa. It can be replaced with melted chocolate, then you need 50 grams of bitter chocolate.

Cut the cooled biscuit into two cakes, then cut the shape of the hedgehog from each. In the upper core, cut out the hole. Grind the biscuit trimmings in a blender. We need this crumb for the back.

Soak the biscuit with the cooled syrup, layer with cream 1. Put cookies in the hole in the form of mushrooms, berries, you can add nuts and dried fruits. In general, fill the hedgehog to your liking.

Combine the biscuit crumbs with cream 1 to make a cake-like mass of potatoes. Leave a little of this mass on the ears, tail and front legs. Form a back, connecting the edges well with the corjas. Coat your head with cream 1. Roll out the green mastic, cut out the weed, put it on a plate or tray. Transfer our hedgehog to weed.

Transfer cream 2 (protein) to a pastry bag. For the needles, I used an & quot; open star & quot; with a diameter of about 1 cm. Place needles along the entire back. Form the ears, legs and tail from the mass remaining from the back. Use mastic to make eyes and a spout. Let the hedgehog stand in the fridge for a couple of hours. Decorate the hedgehog with mushrooms, apples, berries, nuts, whatever you wish. Cake is ready!

Choose quality, proven condensed milk. Without vegetable fats and dietary supplements. The composition should contain only two ingredients: milk and sugar. The taste and quality of the finished dish will ultimately depend on the quality of the condensed milk.

Butter can be melted in a microwave or in a water bath. How to melt butter in the microwave? Cut the butter into small pieces and place in a special container. To prevent oil from splashing when heated, cover the oil vessel with a paper towel. The oil should be melted either at the lowest capacity or in defrosting mode. In the beginning, five seconds is enough. Next, if the oil has not yet melted, reinstall for 5 seconds and start the microwave. Repeat the process multiple times to the desired result. How to melt oil correctly in a water bath? Two vessels of different diameters will be needed. Pour water into a large one and place on the stove. Install a smaller container on top so as to immerse it in water about half. Put the sliced butter in it. Under the influence of boiling water, the oil will begin to melt. Stir the oil lightly to speed up the process. Once the oil pieces have completely dissolved, remove the container from the stove.

It is important to sift through the flour to saturate it with oxygen. Then the pastry will turn out to be airy and will rise well when baking.