A Super Cute Hedgehog Cake

This sweet little Hedgehog Cake was fun and cute and a perfect birthday cake for the hedgie lover in your life! I'm sharing the details of how I made it along with links to the recipes and tools used!

This was my last cake of 2022 and I couldn't have been more excited to make it. It was small and easy and fun!

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My daughter is a hedgehog lover and owner and she's mentioned a few times me making a hedgehog cake so I had to say yes... even though I had the weekend "off" from cake and had planned for it to be a down week for me.

Sarah has owned three hedgehogs... this is her current baby, Stardust:

They were in the Pet Parade at a local festival last Fall and won 1st place 😊

Anywho... I digress. Let's talk about the cake.

How to Make a Hedgehog Cake

I don't have a photo tutorial but I hope I can talk you through this sweet little cake.

1. Bake, fill, and crumb-coat two (2) 7-inch cakes. I used this white almond sour cream cake and vanilla buttercream. But you could use any flavors you like, including chocolate, strawberry, etc. As always, I baked in Magic Line pans.
2. Chill your cake until cold all the way through. I prefer overnight.
3. Trim the top corner edge off the cake to give it a rounded look. Just a small trim will do the trick.
4. Cut out a semi-circle piece modeling chocolate for the face. I used this Satin Ice Chocolate Fondant and place it on the cake. If you have trouble getting it to stick, using a slightly damp paper dowel, dab the side of the cake until the buttercream is moist and sticky so the fondant will stick to it.

5. Mix up three colors of buttercream (I used pink, yellow and dusty blue). One cup (or less) of each is plenty.
6. Using these Russian piping tips and a #22 star tip, pipe the flowers/stars onto the cake, mixing up the colors to give it variation.
7. For the feet, arms/legs, and ears, I used the backend of large piping tips to cut out circles of modeling chocolate. For the arms/feet, I used thicker modeling chocolate, then a butter knife to score them. For the ears, I roll it out thinner. You could also use small circle cookie cutters.

8. For her face, I cut out an oval-ish piece of modeling chocolate then added nose/snout on top in a small pyramid shape. One benefit of modeling chocolate is being able to smooth seams until they disappear and that's what I did here. Then I added the pink nose and used a ball tool to make an indention to add small balls of black fondant for the eyes.
9. That's it!! She was presented on a cake drum with a white ribbon. See my tutorial here for adding ribbon to a cake board.

And that's all I have for you! I fell in love with this sweet little cake and I hope I have an opportunity to make another one!