Baby hedgehog cookies are so cute and super easy to make. Fun for the whole family! I had a lot of fun making these! I did learn that you can’t use store-bought sugar cookie dough for their little bodies. They just don’t hold their shape when baking.

Author: Annie McDaniel

Baby Hedgehog Cookies

Baby hedgehog cookies are so cute and super easy to make. Fun for the whole family!

Ingredients

1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 3/4 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
4-6 squares of chocolate almond bark
1 cup pecans, finely chopped
1 toothpick

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a small bowl, stir together flour and baking powder. Set aside. In a large bowl, cream together the sugar and butter until smooth. Beat in egg and vanilla. Gradually blend in the dry ingredients.
Scoop cookie dough using a cookie scoop or 1 tablespoon so all the cookies are uniform; shape dough into teardrop-shaped cookies. Flatten the pointed side of each cookie to form the "face". Arrange cookies on the cookie sheet.
Bake in preheated oven until golden brown, 10 to 12 minutes. Cool on baking sheets for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.
Pulse pecans in a food processor until finely chopped; transfer to a bowl.
Melt chocolate almond bark in the microwave for 30-second intervals, stirring in between, until completely melted.
Dip the top of each cookie in the melted chocolate, spreading to fully coat the "body" of each hedgehog. Press cookies, chocolate side down, into the ground pecans forming the "fur". Arrange cookies on a sheet of waxed paper to set, about 30 minutes.
Dip one end of a toothpick into the melted chocolate. "Draw" on the pointed end of each cookie for the eyes and nose.