Name: Hedgehog
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 3½ tablespoons cocoa powder; 2 eggs; 285 g butter; 110 g (½ cup) white sugar; 185 g (1½ cups) pure icing sugar; hundreds and thousands; ¾ teaspoon vanilla essence; ¾ teaspoon lemon juice; 2 tablespoons hot water, approximately; 10 g butter, softened; 2 tablespoons cocoa powder; 500 g Marie biscuits

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Australian Blue Ribbon Cookbook

By Liz Harfull

Published 2014

About

People in Warracknabeal turned a little feisty when changes to state government legislation about five years ago meant the local shire council could no longer grant a public holiday for their mid-week show.

Concerned that it could see the end of a tradition that has been part of the Victorian farming community’s annual calendar for almost 130 years, they made their feelings known and a few years later the legislation was amended.

Among those who joined the protest were