Hedgehog cake
Hedgehog cake
Preparation Time: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Cook Time: 55 - 60 Minutes
Serves: Makes 1 large cake
A cute and fun cake that your kids will absolutely love making with you!
Ingredients
200ml cooking oil
375ml (300 g) sugar
45ml smooth apricot jam
635ml (350 g) Snowflake self-raising flour
7ml bicarbonate of soda
2ml salt
60ml (25 g) cocoa powder
375ml milk
4 extra-large eggs
Icing and topping
100ml butter or margarine, softened
500ml (250 g) icing sugar, sifted
60ml (25 g) cocoa powder
30ml hot water
5ml vanilla essence
30ml milk
Decoration
10ml cocoa powder
125g ¼ quantity marzipan
3 jelly beans or any other sweets or extra marzipan
15 flake chocolates
Method
- Whisk oil and sugar together. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition until light and creamy. Add jam.
- Sift flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt and cocoa powder together. Add, alternately with milk, to creamed mixture. Mix well.
- Spoon mixture into a deep round greased ovenproof glass bowl (3.5 litre size) and bake in a preheated oven at 180 °C for 55 - 60 minutes. Leave in bowl for a few minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- Icing and topping: Cream butter and icing sugar together. Mix cocoa powder with hot water until smooth and add to icing. Add essence and enough milk to mix to a smooth, spreadable consistency.
- To assemble: Cut cake horizontally into two layers and sandwich together with icing. Cut off 4 - 5 cm of cake on two opposite sides. Place the two cut-off pieces on top of cake to make the top more peaked. Cover cake with remaining icing.
- Decoration: Add cocoa powder to marzipan and knead until well combined. Shape into a little face and stick onto cake. Place sweets on face for eyes and one for the nose. Cut each flake into three and press into icing while still soft.
