Cake "Hedgehog"

Ingredients

• flour - 180 g
• cocoa powder (in biscuit) - 40 g
• chicken egg - 4 pcs. (4 yolks)
• chicken egg - 4 pcs.
• sugar - 220 g
• salt - a pinch
• butter - 80 g
• sugar (for impregnation) - 100 g
• water (for impregnation) - 100 ml
• rum (for impregnation) - 2 tbsp. l.
• mascarpone (in cream 1) - 500 g
• boiled condensed milk (in cream 1) - 400 g
• butter (in cream 2) - 200 g
• cocoa powder (in cream 2) - 4 tbsp. l.
• powdered sugar - 6 tbsp. l.
• cookies "Mushrooms" - 250 g
• cranberries - 50 g
• blackcurrant berries (or dragees in chocolate) - 3 pcs.

Cooking

Step 1

Bake a chocolate biscuit. To do this: sift the flour with cocoa powder. Mix eggs, yolks, sugar, salt with a whisk and heat in a water bath to about 40 degrees, pour into a mixer bowl and beat until doubled in volume (beat at high speed for at least 10-13 minutes). Add the sifted flour with cocoa into the dough in 2-3 doses, gently mixing with a spatula. Melt the butter until liquid, add part of the dough to it, mix well and pour into the main dough, mix. Lightly grease a baking dish with butter, put the dough into it (it should flow like a ribbon) and bake at 180 degrees for 30-35 minutes. Remove cake; cool completely on wire rack.

Step 2

Prepare impregnation for cakes. Pour sugar into a saucepan, pour in water, bring to a boil and cook for 5 minutes. Add rum, remove from heat and set aside. Prepare cream 1, it will be inside the cake. Whip a little mascarpone cheese in a mixer bowl and gradually add boiled condensed milk to it, beat well. Prepare cream 2, they will cover the outside of the cake. Lightly beat the butter softened at room temperature until fluffy with a mixer, gradually add the powdered sugar and finally add the cocoa powder.

Step 3

First, cut off the sides of the biscuit cake a little, giving it a hedgehog-like shape. Crush all scraps into small crumbs. Using a culinary ring, cut out a round middle (it does not need to be crumbled). Cut the entire base lengthwise into three cakes.

Step 4

Start assembling the cake. Place the bottom layer on a dish. At the cut out center, cut off thin circles - the bottom and top. Put the bottom in the bottom cake. Soak the cake, lay out an even layer of cream 1. Put the second cake on top, soak it too, cover with cream. put the third cake on top, soak. Pour the "Mushrooms" cookies into the middle, leaving a little for decoration, cover with the top cut from the middle. Mix the remaining biscuit crumbs with a part of cream 1 to make a viscous mass, and form the back of a hedgehog from it. Leave quite a bit of this dough for the ears and eyebrows.

Step 5

Cover the entire cake (except for the muzzle of the hedgehog) with cream 2, in an even thin layer. Cover the muzzle with cream 1. Cream 1 should be lighter than cream 2. Put the cake in the refrigerator for 1 hour. Put the remaining cream 2 into a pastry bag with a suitable nozzle and deposit on the hedgehog's body in the form of imitation needles. From the dough make ears, eyebrows. Eyes and a nose can be made from blackcurrant berries or from dragees in chocolate. Put in the refrigerator for 4-5 hours.