A hedgehog slice is an uncooked flat, square or bar-shaped chocolate snack/dessert, similar to
rocky road but with alternating lighter and darker areas. The darker areas are chocolate flavoured. The lighter areas are originally complete
biscuit
A biscuit is a flour-based baked food item. Biscuits are typically hard, flat, and unleavened. They are usually sweet and may be made with sugar, chocolate, icing, jam, ginger, or cinnamon. They can also be savoury, similar to crackers.
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s, outside of Germany possibly alternatively crushed ones,
[http://womansday.ninemsn.com.au/food/everydayrecipes/994498/hedgehog-slice Hedgehog slice recipe from Woman's Day] or even crushed rice puffs, or similar. Nuts may also be added.
[ It usually has a topping of chocolate icing, upon which may be sprinkled coconut, hundreds and thousands, or other kinds of sprinkles or raisins (e.g. chocolate or coffee flavoured, etc.).
The dish goes by a variety of names. In ]German
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it is called (cold dog), (cold snout) or (cellar cake). In some languages it is named after its appearance, such as Swedish (named for both its resemblance to old-time radios and its ability to be eaten soundlessly so as to not disturb radio broadcasts), Turkish or Greek . The Danish and Serbo-Croatian
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simply mean biscuit cake. The Dutch
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* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
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name comes from a promotional recipe book published by Calvé and is named after its mascot character, while the Norwegian ' refers to the Delfia deep-frying fat mentioned in this recipe.
The dish is derived from chocolate salami which was invented in the beginning of the twentieth century and which in turn traces its heritage to various kinds of fake sausage confectionery without chocolate from the start of the nineteenth century.
Many German histories refer to a 1920s recipe from baking firm Bahlsen
Bahlsen GmbH & Co. KG is a German food company based in Hanover. It was founded in July 1889 by Hermann Bahlsen (1859–1919) as the "Hannoversche Cakesfabrik H. Bahlsen".
Bahlsen makes products such as chocolate-dipped Pick Up! snack bars. B ...
that combined chocolate with packaged cookies.retro
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food that conjures nostalgic associations of the 1950s.
See also
* Batik cake, Malaysian version of hedgehog slice
* Chocolate biscuit pudding, Sri Lankan version of hedgehog slice
* List of desserts
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References
External links
A recipe from ABC North Queensland
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