Chocolate hedgehog for a child's birthday

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 100 g butter
• 60 g sugar
• 1 pinch of salt
• 160 g flour
• 1 pack of pudding powder, vanilla
• 500 ml milk
• 2 egg yolks
• 150 g sugar
• 250 g butter
• 40 g cocoa powder
• 1 cake base (sponge cake base), bought ready-made
• 50 g sugar
• ½ cup water
• 100 g almonds (sticks)
• 300 g cake icing, chocolate (fat icing)
• Sweets (mini chocolates, lollipops and others for decoration)

Instructions

Working time approx. 45 minutes; Rest time approx. 4 hours; Total time approx. 4 hours 45 minutes

Pudding cream – hedgehog

To make the shortcrust pastry, sift the flour onto a work surface and make a well in the center. Add the butter in small pieces to the well. Sprinkle the sugar and salt over the dough. Then, using a long bread knife (be careful), chop the butter and sugar mixture into the flour until coarse crumbs form, then knead everything into a smooth dough. Let this rest in the refrigerator for about 2 hours. Cut out a template from cardboard, approximately 8 cm oval with a point. Roll out the dough to about 1/2 cm thick and use the template to cut out hedgehog-shaped cookies. Preheat the oven to 200°C. Place the cookies on a baking sheet and bake them on medium heat for about 8-10 minutes, then let them cool. Mix the custard powder with 3 tablespoons of milk and whisk it with the egg yolks. Then bring the remaining milk and sugar to a boil, stir in the pudding mixture, and bring it to a boil. Cream the butter until fluffy. When the cooled pudding and butter are at the same temperature, stir the pudding into the butter. Add the cocoa powder to the remaining cream. Cut the finished sponge cake into small cubes. Boil the sugar with water and pour it over the sponge cake cubes. Cover and let it stand for about 30 minutes. Then carefully mix the sponge cake cubes into the buttercream, making sure the cubes don’t fall apart. Place the cream on the cookies in the shape of a hedgehog. Then place the hedgehogs in the refrigerator for about an hour to set. Melt the chocolate glaze in a water bath. Now place the almond slivers on the hedgehogs. Dip the hedgehogs in the glaze and let them cool on a wire rack. Add two chocolate chips for the eyes and one for the nose. Decorate the rest as desired.