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Hippo Cake Hack

Serves 8
15 minutes
Difficulty Easy
7 Ingredients

Quick and easy mud cake hack.

Ingredients (serves 8)

1 Woolworths Mud Cake
125g Softened Butter
1.5 cups Icing Sugar
1 Tbsp Milk
3-4 drops Food Colouring
3 Marshmallows
1 Liquorice

Method

Cut the mud cake in half. Sitting one half up on cut edge and other half in front of it, carving the edges to give it a less rounded appearance.
Mix the icing by putting the icing sugar in a bowl, add in the softened butter and a small amount of the milk, mix together adding milk as you go. Separate into 2 bowls.
Place desired colour of food colouring into each of the bowls - we used blue for water and grey for hippo. Ice the cake as displayed.
Use some grey icing around the outside of 2 marshmallows placing them on as ears. Cut the remaining marshmallow in half and place on as eyes. Cut the liquorice into 4 pieces and use icing to secure on eyes and in place of nose.

17 Comments
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- - mom160270 said
  - 29 Sep 2024
    3:35 pm
This is a great idea, very cute.

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- - mom465794 said
  - 25 Sep 2024
    8:47 pm
Super cute! I’d make if if the kids ever got into hippos

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- - mom103778 said
  - 05 Aug 2024
    1:04 pm
I love this mud cake hack. Seems so simple and looks great.

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- - mom490681 said
  - 12 Jul 2023
    6:10 pm
So talented! Wish I can create something like this

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- - mom462038 said
  - 31 May 2023
    2:19 pm
Looks so cool. My cakes are mostly epic fails

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- - mom492462 said
  - 12 Apr 2023
    3:46 pm
How effective is this
Kids would absolutely love this
Cost wise would be mineral

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- - MummaBear said
  - 02 Apr 2023
    3:36 pm
A great birthday cake idea! This would be pretty cool to create a Koala version easily on a branch with leaves or something also, can’t wait to try it out.

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- - Frankiielot said
  - 25 Feb 2023
    7:47 pm
Oh wow, this is too cute and using the mudcake hack takes half the work out. So good, thank you

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- - mom111059 said
  - 23 Jan 2023
    9:23 am
Looks so good and bonus that it is easy to make. Thank you

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- - MummaD said
  - 16 Jan 2023
    8:25 pm
Love a good cake hack.

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- - rovermum said
  - 16 Jan 2023
    11:32 am
OMG, I love this cake. It’s fantastic and so easy.

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- - shocolatmoose said
  - 16 Jan 2023
    9:21 am
love it, might have to try it for my birthday this year

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- - mom486197 said
  - 13 Jan 2023
    2:06 pm
This is such a cute idea for a cake

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- - mom93821 said
  - 13 Jan 2023
    7:31 am
I adore the look of this hippo cake and will be making it!
- mom93821 replied
  
  14 Jan 2023 , 6:10 am
  It sounds like an easy cake to assemble and decorate with terrific results.
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- - mom101628 said
  - 11 Jan 2023
    11:23 pm
This looks great, doubt that mine would look as good as I don’t have this sort of artistic ability.

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- - Motherhoodmama said
  - 11 Jan 2023
    9:40 pm
This looks so very cute, love it!

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