Happy Hedgehog

I’ve been promising you my mum’s amazing Hedgehog recipe for such a long time……the photo above is of her efforts, not mine, as I can never make it like she can. Everyone in the family makes it, but my mum’s is by far superior, even though we all use the same recipes. I have watched it being made time and time again, but I still just can never get mine the same.

At all family occasions, Mum is requested to make hedgehog because “it’s not the same when I make it”. My nephews and niece also regularly call up and ask “Kaye, can you please make me some hedgehog?” to take to school for end of term party etc.

Mums are awesome, aren’t they……

Hedgehog

1 pkt Marie biscuits

125 gms butter

1/2 cup sugar

2 eggs, lightly beaten

2 tbsp cocoa

Melt butter over low heat; add sugar and stir until dissolved.  Remove from heat and let cool slightly.

Add cocoa and stir well.

Add beaten eggs, stir well.

Roughly crush biscuits into mixture (with your hands), stir well.  Press into greased log tin (or line with baking paper).

Refrigerate for several hours, turn out and cut into squares.

I hope I’ve got this written out correctly – if not, Kaye will make a comment to put me right I’m sure!

Happy Fooding!

Delectable Desserts, Christmas Style

Lindy’s ice cream pudding

No recipes for these (although I can put in a request from my mum for the cheesecake one if you want it, but I think the ice cream plum pudding is a family secret of my step-mum’s!), but I just wanted to share these pictures of some of the sweet goodies we enjoyed on Christmas Day.

I don’t usually eat sweet stuff much, but I could not resist the ice cream pudding, and boy was it amazing!

Hedgehog (above, on the same plate as the Christmas cake) is a staple sweet thing in my family – my mum is famous for hers. I thought I’d shared that recipe with you but I can’t find it, so I must not have…yet. And the Christmas cake is the dead easy low-fat one you can make at the last minute (we did pour some booze over it a few days before!).

Fruit salad is….well….fruit salad! And of course we had chocolates, chocolates and more chocolates. We totally forgot to get out the mince pies (bought ones, cos’ sometimes you just have to be lazy about things) and I don’t think we even had any shortbread this year. There’s always plenty to go around though, no one ever goes hungry on Christmas Day!!!

Happy Post-Christmas Fooding!