Hedgehog Biscuits

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 125 g unsalted butter
• 1 cup icing sugar
• 2 tablespoons cocoa
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 1/4 cup coconut
• 2 cups marie biscuits (for australians) or 2 cups graham crackers, broken into pieces (for americans)
• 1/2 cup hazelnuts
• 125 g dark chocolate
• 125 g milk chocolate
• 1 tablespoon copha

Recipe

• 1 melt the butter in a large saucepan over a medium heat.
• 2 remove the pan from the heat, and stir in the sifted icing sugar and cocoa, and mix well.
• 3 stir in the beaten egg, and return the pan to the heat and stir until the mixture boils.
• 4 remove the pan from the heat and stir in the coconut, biscuit pieces and nuts. the biscuits are generally broken into pieces about the size of a hazelnut, but some larger pieces is fine, and the pieces certainly don't have to all be the same size!
• 5 spoon the mixture into a baking paper lined 18cm x 28cm (approximately 7" x 11") slice pan and press down firmly.
• 6 icing the hedgehogs: melt the dark chocolate, milk chocolate and copha together in a microwave-safe bowl or jug in a microwave oven on a medium setting for approximately 2 minutes; stir well, pour - and spread evenly - over the hedgehog base.
• 7 chill to set.
• 8 once chilled, cut into 24 slices. or larger or smaller slices if you wish!
• 9 notes: for extra flavour, add 1/4 cup of sultanas.