My daughter wanted to have a reptile party for her 8th birthday and her favorite reptile is an alligator. She asked not to use any fondant on the cake. I usually only use homemade butter cream icing on all my cakes. I wanted to make the cake look like it was for a girl so I decided … Read more
This was a cake was based on the TV show Swamp People. Meet tree breaker. This is the name given to the monster gators that break the tree limbs that hold the bait. The phrase choot’em was made popular by Troy. He tells his partner to choot’em as he wrestles the gator into position.
My youngest son just turned 4, and requested an alligator cake for his birthday. When I asked him what flavor he wanted it to be, he insisted on alligator flavor. I ended up doing the body/tail/legs in devil’s food and the head in vanilla cake, and the whole thing is filled and frosted with almond … Read more
I made this Alligator Cake for my niece’s 12th birthday. The curvy tail is cut from half of a bundt cake and pointed at the end. The body and head was carved from a sheet cake. The arms and legs are cupcakes cut in half. Scrap pieces of cake made the mounds for the eye. … Read more
I took a Wilton 1979 rocket-ship cake pan and used my imagination. It took one cake mix. I used Duncan Hines white cake mix and used green food color to make the batter green. Grease and floor the pan and pour in the cake mix. Bake at 350 till done. I used a star tip … Read more
This crocodile cake was made by following the directions posted for alligator #9. The body is a bundt cake cut into thirds, the head a Christmas tree pan, the legs are cupcakes and eyes marshmallows. I used spearmints for the spine and toes. The icing is a star tip. The designer for cake #9 did … Read more
My son wanted a Crocodile Birthday Cake for his 2nd birthday. I put together a few different ideas, some from this site and from another. I used a bunt tin and a loaf tin and carved out the pieces. The body is 3/4’s of the loaf tin – the remainder was used for the head. … Read more
I made this cake for my son’s 2nd Birthday. I made several different size and shaped cakes and placed them together to for the whole thing. Then I iced all the pieces smooth to make a clean finished product.
I then baked the end and cut to a point to look like a tail. For the head I cut the tree pan where it was equal size width and height and shaped the end to blend with body. My cake decoration idea for the teeth – marshmallow cut to shape, I put a red … Read more
We took two box cake mixes (in this case confetti) and made two 9×13 cakes for this crocodile cake. We then drew on the cakes with edible ink markers to plan our cuts. The body and feet came from one cake. Head and tail came from the other cake. Frosting was purchased. The green body … Read more
I made this fun Crocodile Cake Design for my kids’ summer camp which had a crocodile theme. I baked two 12 inch round cakes, one 10 inch round cake, and 6 jumbo cupcakes. One round cake became the crocodile’s middle section. I carved the second 12 inch round cake into the tail, and the ten … Read more
I made this crocodile birthday cake for my son who requested (when asked) a crocodile cake for his third birthday. I baked a rectangular chocolate pound cake. I cut out free hand the outline of the crocodile, put it on top of the cake, then cut around it to have the shape of the crocodile. … Read more