Photo by Farideh Sadeghin.
It's a cake! It's a cookie! It's some sort of inky-black, German fever dream of a combination between a cookie and a cake!Not long ago, a mysterious German friend mysteriously gave MUNCHIES this mysterious recipe for a (mysterious) rolled cookie version of kalte schnauze.In case you haven't spent much time studying the lesser-known, hyper-regional baked goods of Deutschland—can you really even say you've lived if you haven't?—kalte schnauze is a no-bake biscuit cake that, we were informed, translates to "hedgehog slice" or "sweet blood sausage."The thing is, who the hell wants a chocolate cookie cake that is referred to as a "sweet blood sausage"? But Google says kalte schnauze actually translates to "cold snout," which is maybe, possibly, slightly less harrowing. The cold part evidently refers to the cake being a no-bake cake, and the snout part oddly harkens to the snout of a dog—not the snout of a hedgehog.RECIPE: Hedgehog Slice (Kalte Schnauze-Wurst)Whatever the hell you call this riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, just know that it's packed to the brim with delicious butterkekse (butter cookies), requires only six ingredients to make (almost all of which you probably already have), and is far more delicious than the little effort required to make it—or its weird German name—would suggest.We're not quite sure what in the hell you are, rolled-cookie version of kalte schnauze, but we definitely want to eat you.