A creative mum has shared a hack to transform a birthday cake from Tesco in a matter of seconds.
Laura Richardson wanted to make her daughter's day special but was struggling to find what exactly she was after.
She had been searching for a chocolate cake shaped like a dog but was having no luck at the supermarket, the Mirror reports.
Instead, she came across a sloth chocolate cake and soon realised that with one simple move, she could get what she needed.
Laura shared her clever trick to turn the cake from a sloth into a dog on the Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK Facebook page.
She wrote: "My daughter is obsessed with dogs, but finding a chocolate cake for her was quite difficult.
"However, the sloth cake at Tesco very easily transforms."
The mum had removed the sloth's icing paws and placed them on the top of the cake to make dog ears instead.
Her simple but effective idea went viral, with the post receiving more than 22,000 likes and over 900 comments.
One person commented: "Amazing!!! I have a dog-obsessed daughter who needs a birthday cake next Thursday! Great idea."
Another said: "Looks so much cuter the way u have rearranged it. What a great idea!"
Someone else wrote: "Great job looks fantastic. Sometimes a little imagination goes a long way."
One user added: "That looks really good, doesn't it?
"Well done fab mum for pulling it out the bag and doing an easy transformation quick fix bet your daughter loved the cake looks really nice.
"Hope that she had a really lovely day and enjoyed celebrating."
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