Woman makes ‘stunning’ wedding cake for just $57

A Victorian mum has transformed a supermarket staple into a “stunning” three-tiered cake for her friend’s wedding for just $57.

Tucking into a slice of Woolworths mud cake has become an Australian rite of passage over the decades.

It’s the cheap and cheerful treat that’s regularly wheeled out in classroom birthdays, business meetings and CWA tea rooms across the nation.

But one Victorian mum has taken her love of the iconic chocolate cake to an entirely new level — three levels, in fact — after she used 11 Woolies mud cakes to create a “stunning” three-tiered wedding cake for her friend.

Best of all, it cost less than $60.

Silvina Werner loves making cakes for her husband and children.

It’s easy to see why avid baker Silvina Werner turned to the most iconic cake manufacturer the nation has ever known for help to create her masterpiece — they make a damn good cake.

THE WOOLIES MUDDIE

There’s many things to love about the Woolies mud cake, like its thick ganache coating, its fancy icing drizzle and its cost — just $4.

But the best part of this cake is easily its decadent chocolate centre, so dense and moist you’d swear you’re on the set of MasterChef, not eating it out of a plastic tub in your kitchen.

So, when given the task of creating a cake for her friend’s wedding last weekend, Silvina turned to the supermarket giant for help.

And the finished product looked like something out of a glossy magazine.

Silvina's resourceful cake hack has won her fans around the country.

Silvina told news.com.au she loved “making cakes for my children” and leapt at the opportunity to make one for her friend’s special day.

“I’m just a mum who likes to decorate cakes, I am no professional baker,” she said,

“My friend asked if I could make her wedding cake, so I gave it a shot.”

Posting her phenomenal efforts — that set her back just $56.80 — to a Woolies and Coles mud cake hack Facebook page, Silvina explained she got creative and sculpted a designer-looking wedding cake at a fraction of the cost.

“I was extremely nervous about making it, and it took me all day to get it done until I was happy with it,” she said.

Silvina's resourceful cake hack gives a designer cake a run for its money. Picture: Facebook

THE PROCESS

Silvina explained her process to hundreds of stunned group members, who flooded her post with praise for the “beautiful cake”.

Using 11 chocolate mud cakes to create the three-tiered wedding cake, Silvina began by squeezing two large cakes together in a tin to create the base.

She repeated this process and stacked eight cakes on top of one another to achieve a solid first tier.

“I then froze them in the tin, and they stayed together well,” she said.

“I placed the two cakes on top of each other and squeezed them together, left icing on for moisture and to help with blending them together.”

She created the larger base cake from squeezing multiple mud cakes together in a tin and freezing it. Picture: Facebook

Her second tier consisted of two mud cakes, with the icing sliced off the top, squeezed together in a larger tin and frozen in place.

“For the third tier, I cut a mud cake into two smaller ones and stacked them,” she said.

Silvina used Betty Crocker butter cream icing — which costs $4 a tub at Woolies — to “glue” her tiers and layers together and even more to coat the entire cake.

“Fresh flowers supplied by the bride,” she said, claiming she was extremely proud of her efforts.

“My friend said she loved the cake.”

It took 11 of these delicious cakes to make the masterpiece. Picture: Woolworths

THE RESPONSE

Silvina says a good tip when attempting a cake of this size is to line each tin with cling wrap before pressing the cake inside, so it can be removed easily and intact.

Her post attracted hundreds of likes and comments from people gobsmacked by how beautiful her cake turned out.

“A wedding cake is absolutely important at this special time, you have done and extraordinary cake that will be talked about for many years,” one woman wrote.

Another added: “You know the cakes taste amazing, so why bake when you can go all out with decorating.”

Silvina said she was “blown away” by the responses to her wedding cake.

“I feel very humbled by it, I’m just a mum who likes to decorate cakes,” she said.

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