CINNAMON NUT HEDGEHOG
⅔ cups butter [room temperature]
¼ cup brown sugar
1 small egg
½ teaspoon vanilla
1 ¾ cups flour [wholewheat]
½ cup ground walnuts [or other nut flour]
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
pinch salt
½ cup chopped walnuts [or other nuts]
250 g chocolate [dark]
_ preheat oven to 170°C
_ line a baking tray with a silicone mat [or baking paper]
_ cream together butter and sugar
_ incorporate the egg and vanilla
_ finally add flour, ground walnuts, cinnamon and salt
_ transfer to a clean work surface to quickly knead into a smooth dough
_ with a teaspoon scoop out a small amounts of dough and form into balls
_ roll them to little teardrop shapes
_ place onto a baking mat and flatten slightly
_ bake for 15-20 minutes [should brown slightly - but take out before the “nose” gets too dark]
_ take out of the oven and leave to cool to room temperature
_ chop chocolate and gently melt in a water bath
_ place chopped walnuts in a small bowl
_ grab a hedgehog by it’s “nose” and carefully dip the back of the body into the chocolate [scrape off any chocolate that ended up on the bottom of the hedgehog]
_ dip it into the chopped walnuts [you can also use shredded coconut or chocolate sprinkles]
_ place back onto the baking mat for the chocolate to harden
_ once all hedgehogs are dipped, put the remaining chocolate into a piping bag with a small piping tip [or a ziplock bag with a tiny hole in the corner]
_ draw eyes and a nose onto each hedgehog
NUSS-ZIMT-IGEL
150 g Butter [Zimmertemperatur]
50 g brauner Zucker
1 kleines Ei
½ Teelöffel Vanille
210 g Mehl [Vollkorn]
40 g gemahlene Walnüsse [oder anderes Nussmehl]
½ Teelöffel gemahlener Zimt
Prise Salz
60 g gehackte Walnüsse [oder andere Nüsse]
250 g Schokolade [dunkel]
