With a few simple tweaks and ingredients, you can turn Woolworths birthday cakes into personalised masterpieces.
Gone are the days when supermarket cakes are dry and taste like cardboard. If the many Woolworths birthday cakes hacks are to go by, store-bought cakes can be a smart and time-saving way to baked desserts heaven. Even Chris Hemsworth enjoys a Woolies birthday cake.
Are you ready to create some unforgettable birthday parties? Check out these epic upgrades, some taking as little as 15 minutes.
Mud cake hacks for instant decadence
The Woolworths’ mud cake is a fan favourite for its rich, moist texture and great taste. With some quick and creative adjustments, you can turn it into an impressive dessert centrepiece.
Bluey & Bingo cake
This viral mud cake hack makes two favourite cartoon characters: Bluey or Bingo. It only takes a few steps: Cutting the cake into the correct shapes, covering it with rich buttercream (blue for Bluey and tan for Bingo) and decorating.
Flower power cake
For this beautiful little girl’s cake, you’ll need three white mud cakes (or sponges). Slice off the tops of the cakes to make them flat and then stack them on top of each other with whatever filling you like—icing, buttercream or even the original icing from the mud cakes. Decorate with pink buttercream and daisies made from fondant.
Loaded mud cake
This bright and fun-looking cake is a very easy and fast hack. Like the flower power cake above, slice off the tops of the cakes to make them flat and then stack them on top of each other with whatever filling you like—icing, buttercream or even the original icing from the mud cakes. Surround the cake in rows of chocolate or caramel chocolates before placing it in the freezer to cool and set. When it’s ready, cover the top with rainbow colours using sweet treats of your choosing.
Trucks & diggers cake
This cake will impress any construction-mad kid. You’ll need two chocolate mud cakes, buttercream, cookie pieces and crumbs, and decorations. It’s a simple stack cake covered in buttercream and decorated with machines.
Pink Sparkle Cake
You can create any pink-loving child’s dream cake using three mud cakes of varying flavours, lots of sparkles and pink decorations.
Sponge cakes for spectacular results
If mud cakes aren’t quite your preference, the Woolworths sponge is another excellent base for your dessert creations. Check out these hacks.
Epic drip cake
For this, you’ll need two vanilla sponges, dulce de leche, Tim Tams and buttercream. The finished result looks like it came straight from a cake cafe. If you want to swap the colours around, you can do a chocolate buttercream and use white chocolate ganache for the drip.
Hidden sweet treats
This cake has surprises on the inside. Cut a rough circle out of the middle of the cakes and stack them on top of each other. Then, fill the inside with various small edibles. Decorate the outside however you like. People will get a big surprise when they cut the cake, revealing the hidden treats.
Dramatic musician cake
This is another easy stack cake. It uses vanilla sponges, but you can use a fluffy chocolate sponge if you like instead. Decorated with buttercream and an edible printed photo, this cake will give you some big ideas for your next party.
Magical mini cakes
Using the Woolies mini cake range as the main content of the cake, plus some beautiful buttercream work, gold paint and a rice paper sail, you’ll have a whimsical cake fit for a princess.
Love heart cake
Wear your heart on your sleeve, or the birthday cake, with this Woolies sponge cake hack. It’s amazing what two sponge cakes, some buttercream and a little imagination can give you.
The convenience of Woolworths birthday cakes
When life gets busy or if buying custom cakes is out of the budget, the catalogue from supermarket giant Woolworths with its store-bought cakes can help provide inspiration.
Planning an event can be a tough job, but Woolworths’ birthday cakes make it easier by offering cakes that can be customised with minimal effort. Whether you’re using the new range of baked desserts or their classic mud and sponge cakes, you’ll find that these simple cakes can transform into a showpiece in no time. With a mud cake, sponges or a carrot cake, you can create your own “team taste” worthy cake.
Why go out and buy milk, sugar, flour and eggs when you can simply whip up some colourful buttercream to save the party? Using basic Woolies cakes, you can explore countless value ways to upgrade your birthday cake without breaking the bank.
