Coffee Rum Hedgehog

Name: Coffee Rum Hedgehog
Yield: Serves Six to Eight
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon rum; 75 g/3 oz butter; 50 g/2 oz brown sugar; 3 heaped tablespoons instant coffee powder; 50 g/2 oz whole or split blanched almonds; 50 g/2 oz whole or split blanched almonds; 150 g/5 oz icing sugar; 300 ml/½ pint double cream; 2 plain sponge cakes; 175 ml/6 fl oz water

Preparation info

Serves
Six to Eight

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooking for Friends

By Prue Leith

Published 1978

About

Ingredients

2 plain sponge cakes
175 ml/6 fl oz water
50

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Break the cakes up roughly and put them in a bowl. Boil the water with the sugar and when the sugar is dissolved pour on to the coffee and mix well. Add the rum and pour over the cake. Mix with a fork or your hand, taking care not to mash the cake too much - you want a marbled half-white, half-brown effect. Then press the mixture into a pudding bowl and put a weight on top. (A saucer that fits