I actually made this homemade cupcake alligator birthday cake for my grandson’s 8th birthday in 2009. I had seen a book that was all cakes designed with cupcakes and thought it was cool. I looked at this site and got some ideas and then came up with a plan. I baked the cupcakes in the … Read more
I was asked to make a Alligator Swamp People Cake for a friend’s son who was turning 10. He wanted chocolate so I opted for a heavy fudge chocolate cake recipe as I knew I would need to do a lot of sculpting. I also froze the cake prior to sculpting it to further prevent … Read more
For this cake decoration idea I found a party hat cake pan and used one cake mix. Using both my mom and her homemade frosting we chose different colored greens for the body, white for eyes and teeth, black for mouth, pupils and warts and blue for the water. For the eyeballs I used two … Read more
I made this alligator cake for my sons 4th birthday. It was really simple to make. I used 2 boxes of cake mix to prepare the cake. Using two 8″ round cake pans and one 4″ round pans.s 4th birthday. It was really simple to make. I used 2 boxes of cake mix to prepare … Read more
I actually saw this idea for a Crocodile Birthday Cake in a cupcake book. My daughter was having a Tinkerbell birthday party for her 4th birthday so in addition to the Tinkerbell doll cake I made her, I thought I would make her the crocodile from the movie. I baked 24 chocolate cupcakes, just using … Read more
This Alligator cupcake cake was so much fun! Giving credit where credit is due, this idea came from a book titled “Hello, Cupcake” (I got mine at a local craft store). Using one cake mix, bake 24 regular cupcakes. Ice them with “gator-green” buttercream by piping on overlapping rows of “scales”. Arrange them in the … Read more
For my sons 7th birthday we had a jungle theme. I found a cute crocodile cake pattern in the Family Fun magazine we used. Since we had so many coming we also decorated some cupcakes to look like a crocodile bobbing in the water. We decorated with vines made from paper sacks and cut big … Read more
Steve Irwin was and still is my sons hero. So after watching his memorial he decided he wanted a Steve Irwin party. Silly me asked him if he wanted me to make him a crocodile – alligator cake. Of course he did. I ended up using a heart pan for the head and used a … Read more
I made this Crocodile Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 8th birthday, as we had ‘Crocodile Encounters’ to entertain the children. I made a sponge cake, cut out a hole for the pond, and filled it with two shades of blue fondant icing rolled together to get a marble effect, I then covered the cake in … Read more
My grandson Ryan wanted a gator cake for his 5th Birthday party, this is what we wound up with. I started out with a 14×3 round cake pan for the body, and a 14x14x3 square to make the gators tail, nose and feet. For the head I used 2 lg cupcakes. I used butter cream … Read more
When I asked my oldest son (just turned 4) what type of birthday he wanted, he told me an Alligator birthday. I was not at all surprised as he loves animals of any kind. So after many months of trying to convince him to go with something else with out any chance of him changing … Read more
My son is obsessed with alligators so for his 3rd birthday I came to the coolest birthday cakes website and found some really great ideas for an alligator cake (you can even see the printout I was using in picture #1!) I tweaked this one a little and the results were fantastic. I used Swiss … Read more