A hedgehog slice is an uncooked flat, square or bar-shaped chocolate snack/dessert, similar to a fudgey

chocolate brownie A chocolate brownie or simply a brownie is a chocolate baked confection. Brownies come in a variety of forms and may be either fudgy or cakey, depending on their density. Brownies often, but not always, have a glossy "skin" on their upper crust. ...

but with alternating lighter and darker areas. The darker areas are chocolate flavoured. The lighter areas are crushed

biscuit A biscuit is a flour-based baked and shaped food product. In most countries biscuits are typically hard, flat, and unleavened. They are usually sweet and may be made with sugar, chocolate, icing, jam, ginger, or cinnamon. They can also be ...

,http://womansday.ninemsn.com.au/food/everydayrecipes/994498/hedgehog-slice Hedgehog slice recipe from Woman's Day rice puffs, or similar. Nuts may also be added. It usually has a topping of chocolate icing on which may be sprinkled coconut, hundreds and thousands, or other kinds of sprinkles or raisins (e.g. chocolate or coffee flavoured, etc.). The dish goes by a variety of names. In

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it is called (cold dog), (cold snout) or (cellar cake). In some languages it is named after its appearance, such as

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(named for both its resemblance to old-time radios and its ability to be eaten soundlessly so as to not disturb radio broadcasts),

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or Greek . The

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and

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simply mean biscuit cake. The

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name comes from a promotional recipe book published by Calvé and is named after its mascot character, while the

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' refers to the Delfia deep-frying fat mentioned in this recipe. The dish is derived from

chocolate salami Chocolate salami is an Italian dessert made from cocoa, broken biscuits, butter and sometimes alcohol such as port wine or rum. The dessert became popular across Europe and elsewhere, often losing alcohol as an ingredient along the way. Choco ...

which was invented in the beginning of the twentieth century and which in turn traces its heritage to various kinds of fake sausage confectionery without chocolate from the start of the nineteenth century. Many German histories refer to a 1920s recipe from baking firm Bahlsen that combined chocolate with packaged cookies. The name "Kalter Hund" has been theorized to have passed into German through the Slovakian word (box-shaped trolley), which might have been a reference to the rectangular pans in which the dessert is often made. In Germany, it is often described as a

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food that conjures nostalgic associations of the 1950s. In 2017, inhabitants of Ronneburg made a 994.9 meter long cake, the longest to date in Germany.

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