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<\/p>\nA woman who runs a cake business in south-east Victoria has been accused of using Woolworths mud cakes in recipes for customers and then charging up to $180 for them.<\/p>\n
Nadine Walters, based in Morwell, sells elaborate and eye-catching cakes, running her business from home for five years.<\/p>\n
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The classic mud cakes cost no more than $10.\u00a0A Current Affair<\/p>\n
However, some customers have accused her of purchasing mud cakes from Woolworths before icing them at home and selling them for a huge markup.<\/p>\n
The alleged cake concealment was uncovered when a customer shared a cake they had purchased from Walters, peeling back the icing and instead seeing the famous swirl that is known to come from the Woolworths cakes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe biggest shock is she didn\u2019t even wipe the icing off,\u201d the customer, Sarah, told A Current Affair.<\/p>\n
Sarah claims she has had problems with Walters\u2019 business before, alleging that a cake she previously bought was covered in cat hair.<\/p>\n
\u201cI went full out for the birthday, so for this big extravagant cake that I was expecting, to come covered in cat hair … I was disappointed,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Walters was approached by A Current Affair and she claimed that she had no choice but to resort to Woolworths mud cakes on one occasion.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy oven had a malfunction,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI bought layers for a few cakes, that was the end of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Woolworths mud cakes sell for about $7 to $10 across the country. Walters charged customers as much as $180 for the cakes that were supposedly homemade.<\/p>\n
In a statement provided to A Current Affair, she said: \u201cI am fully responsible for not being more forthcoming\u2026 It was never my intention to deceive anyone\u2026 I am fully registered… and have completed all relevant food safety.\u201d<\/p>\n
Walters also said she refunded some customers who received the supermarket mud cakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who runs a cake business in south-east Victoria has been accused of using Woolworths mud cakes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-894154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}