for 30 pieces

Dough

250 g	honey
¾ dl	milk
75 g	sugar
1	fresh egg
500 g	brown flour
½ tsp	baking powder
1 parcel	bourbon vanilla sugar
1 tbsp	gingerbread spice

Almond mixture

120 g	shelled ground almonds
2 tbsp	sugar
4 ½ tbsp	honey

To bake

1 dl

cream

To decorate

100 g	dark chocolate, coarsely chopped
50 g	almond slivers
30 g	chocolate sprinkles, coarsely chopped

How it's done

Dough

Heat honey, milk and sugar in a pan while stirring until the sugar has dissolved, cool. Stir in the egg. Mix the flour and all ingredients up to and including the gingerbread spice, add to the honey mixture, knead to form a smooth dough and leave to rest for approx. 30 mins.

Almond mixture

Mix all the ingredients together.

To shape

Halve the dough, roll out to approx. 1 cm thick between two sheets of baking paper, cut into strips measuring approx. 7 cm. With wet hands, shape the almond mixture into rolls (approx. 1.5 cm in diameter. Place the almond rolls in the middle of the dough strips, roll lengthwise, cut into pieces approx.. 2 cm wide, shape into balls with your hands and use two fingers to press them into a drop shape, then place on a baking tray lined with baking paper.

To bake

Approx. 25 mins. in the centre of an oven preheated to 180°C. Remove from the oven, coat with cream immediately, leave to cool in a well-sealed biscuit tin.

To decorate

Place the chocolate in a thin-sided bowl and suspend over a gently simmering bain-marie, ensuring that the bowl does not touch the water. Melt the chocolate.

Dip the hedgehog bodies into the chocolate, sprinkle with almond slivers or chocolate shavings, draw eyes and a nose with chocolate.

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