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Recipe Hippo Cake Hack

Hippo Cake Hack
  • Serves 8
  • 15 minutes
  • Difficulty Easy
  • 7 Ingredients
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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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

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Comments

  • I am not very artistic and often look at things like this and just know that my attempt would be no where near as good as the picture buy im thinking that even i could manage to have this one looking pretty awesome. now i just need a kid that wants a hippo cake

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  • This is a great idea, very cute.

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  • Super cute! I’d make if if the kids ever got into hippos

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  • I love this mud cake hack. Seems so simple and looks great.

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  • So talented! Wish I can create something like this

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  • Looks so cool. My cakes are mostly epic fails

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  • How effective is this
    Kids would absolutely love this
    Cost wise would be mineral

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  • 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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  • Oh wow, this is too cute and using the mudcake hack takes half the work out. So good, thank you

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  • Looks so good and bonus that it is easy to make. Thank you

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  • Love a good cake hack.

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  • OMG, I love this cake. It’s fantastic and so easy.

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  • love it, might have to try it for my birthday this year 🙂

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  • This is such a cute idea for a cake

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  • I adore the look of this hippo cake and will be making it!

    • It sounds like an easy cake to assemble and decorate with terrific results.

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  • This looks great, doubt that mine would look as good as I don’t have this sort of artistic ability.

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  • This looks so very cute, love it!

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