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Hypnotic Cakes Resemble Candy Colored Marble

Russian confectioner Olga Noskova produces uncanny baked goods, which resemble colored candy marble mirrors. Noskova’s baking talent quickly went viral, after the public feasted their eyes on the polished and shiny surfaces, which are actually edible. Noskova shares her “Mirror Glaze” creations on her Instagram as well as her secret recipe below on how to make this flawless, pristine concoction.

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One Yowah nut, bisected

One of many opal mining sites in the red continent is called Yowah, and is famous for its opal nuts, veins of precious glowing opal within nodules of siliceous ironstone that often form amazing patterns. They vary from 0.5 to 20 cm across, and occur in an iron rich sandstone, near the border with an adjoining mudstone.

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