Chocolate Hedgehog

Ingredients

• HEDGEHOG BASE
  175g butter
  2/3 cup caster sugar
  4 tablespoons Cocoa powder
  2 tablespoons desiccated coconut
  1 egg, lightly beaten
  ½ cup shelled pistachios
  250g packet shredded wheat biscuits, broken into pieces

• CHOCOLATE TOPPING
  250g  dark cooking chocolate, chopped coarsely
  50g butter

Method

1. In a saucepan melt butter, sugar and cocoa over a medium heat for 3 minutes. Stirring to ensure sugar dissolves.
2. Remove from heat add coconut, egg, pistachios and biscuits. Press mixture into a baking paper lined 28cm x 18cm slab pan. Chill for 1 hour.
3. Melt chocolate and butter in bowl over simmering water. Spread over slice. Allow to set in refrigerator for 20 minutes. Slice with hot knife into pieces.