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. ...

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 German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...

it is called (cold dog), (cold snout) or (cellar cake). In some languages it is named after its appearance, such as

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(named for both its resemblance to old-time radios and its ability to be eaten soundlessly so as to not disturb radio broadcasts),

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or Greek . The Danish and

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simply mean

biscuit cake Biscuit cake is a type of no bake tea cake, similar to American icebox cake, found in Irish, English, Danish, Arabic (Especially Tunisian cuisine known as "Khobzet Hwe"), Bulgarian and Jewish cuisine. It is made with digestive biscuits and is ...

. The

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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 Chocolate salami is an Italian, Romanian and Portugal, Portuguese dessert composed of Cocoa solids, cocoa, broken biscuits, butter and sometimes alcohol such as port wine or rum. The dessert became popular across Europe and elsewhere, often losin ...

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. The name "Kalter Hund" has been theorized to have passed into German through the Slovakian word (box-shaped trolley), which might have been a reference to the rectangular pans in which the dessert is often made. In Germany, it is often described as a

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food that conjures nostalgic associations of the 1950s. In 2019, inhabitants of Ronneburg made a 994.9 meter long cake, the longest to date in Germany.

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