HEDGEHOG CAKE

Hedgehog Cake image

Take your cake-making skills to the next level with our Hedgehog Cake recipe. With spines made from chocolate bars, dried apricots for feet and a jellybean nose, this Hedgehog Cake recipe from My Food and Family will be a hit at your next birthday party.

Provided by My Food and Family

Categories Recipes

Time 30m

Yield 16 servings

Number Of Ingredients 10

Ingredients

1 pkg. (8 oz.) PHILADELPHIA Neufchatel Cheese, softened
1-1/2 pkg. (4 oz. each) BAKER'S Semi-Sweet Chocolate (6 oz.), broken into pieces, melted
2 Tbsp. sugar
1-1/2 cups thawed COOL WHIP LITE Whipped Topping
18 chocolate chip cookies (2 inch), divided
2 bars (3.52 oz. each) Swiss milk chocolate nougat bar, broken into triangles
4 dried apricots
2 white and chocolate chunk cookie (2-inch)
2 pieces shoestring licorice (2-1/2 inches each)
1 jelly bean

Steps:

Beat Neufchatel cheese in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until creamy. Add melted chocolate and sugar; mix well. Gently stir in whipped topping. Remove 1 Tbsp. of the Neufchatel cheese mixture for later use; spread small amount of the remaining cream cheese mixture between each of 16 of the cookies to form two logs of 8 cookies each.
Place logs, side-by-side, on serving platter for the "hedgehog's body." Add remaining 2 cookies to one end for the "face" as shown in photo. Spread face and body with remaining Neufchatel ixture until completely covered.
Cut each apricot to resemble a foot with claws; attach to the body with the reserved Neufchatel cheese mixture. Press chocolate triangles into the "body" to resemble quills. Decorate with white chocolate chips for the "eyes," jelly bean for the "nose" and licorice for the "whiskers." Store in refrigerator.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 240, Fat 14 g, SaturatedFat 8 g, TransFat 0 g, Cholesterol 15 mg, Sodium 110 mg, Carbohydrate 28 g, Fiber 1 g, Sugar 19 g, Protein 3 g