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‘OMG I thought it was real!’ How this Aussie mum created the BEST Coles mud cake hack EVER!

Steve Irwin would be proud! - by Eliza Scanlan
  • 26 Jun 2019

At first glance, you’d be forgiven to thinking you’d stumbled across a National Geographic website with this photo of a beautiful lizard - not New Idea Food.

But believe it or not, this amazing creature isn’t from the wild - it’s a Coles mud cake hack by an incredibly clever Aussie mum. 

WATCH HOW SHE MADE IT HERE! 

That’s right, mum Samantha shared her amazing creation on the Woolies/Coles Mudcake Hacks Facebook group attracting nearly 9,000 likes and comments with her masterpiece. 

Created for her son’s seventh birthday, Samantha says she made the amazing creation with no fancy decorating tools - just two and a half Coles mud cake slices, ready-made fondant and a range of household items including tweezers and a biro! 

She writes: ‘Ok he’s done! Meet Beardy the bearded dragon.

‘[I used] 2.5 x Coles mud cakes slices, ready to roll white fondant, 2 silver sugar balls coloured with edible black pen and food colour powder (yellow, orange, blue, green- cream would have been great but they didn’t have any).
‘I bought brown liquid dye, but didn’t use it as I wanted to just dust colour him.

‘No cake making tools just rolling pin, paint brushes, pen (no ink), tweezers and about 5hrs ha ha.’

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Image: Woolies/Coles Mudcake Hacks/Facebook

Revealing that the creation was her fourth mud cake hack, Samantha said she couldn’t wait to see her son’s reaction. 

‘7th birthday tomorrow,’ she adds, ‘I’m so excited to see his face.’

So amazing! Posting various photos of her creation in the making, you can see Samantha moulded the Coles mud cake slices into the shape of a lizard before covering it with the rolled-out fondant. 

Samantha then used the other end of a paintbrush and a pen - with no ink! - to create the dots in its skin, and ‘pointy tweezers’ to make the spikes. 

She says: ‘I made the areas I needed raised spikes thicker fondant so I could pinch and flick it up a little.’

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Image: Woolies/Coles Mudcake Hacks/Facebook

To colour the lizard, Samantha used dry food colouring powder and a brush to ‘paint  them on dry.’

She explains: ‘I mixed them with the dry brush first and that made them powdery

I wanted a matte look without moisture where I might loose texture or break the fondant.’

Samantha was blown away by the amazing response her cake received from her fellow Woolies/Coles Mudcake Hacks group on Facebook, admitting that it ‘made me cry, literally.’

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Said one fan: ‘That is a work of art...amazing 👏’ Added another: ‘OMG I thought he was real. So talented 😍😍’

Said a third: ‘This is the best hack of all time!’

Added another: ‘WOW!! That is so so clever! I really had to look because I thought it was a real 🦎’

Said one more: ‘Glad you posted the progress photos! You wouldn’t believe it was a cake if you didn’t!’

We agree! For this and more amazing hacks, make sure you’re following Woolies/Coles Mudcake Hacks on Facebook! 

Eliza Scanlan
Eliza Scanlan
Eliza Scanlan is a contributor with New Idea Food. Eliza has written for several digital titles including Practical Parenting and New Idea, with a passion for consumer and shopping news. Eliza is also a contributor for the Trolley Watch and The Flawsome Mum podcasts. In her spare time, Eliza loves watching Netflix and tending to her horses.

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