My sons 17th birthday and what a cake he wanted! This cake was much easier to make than I expected and thanks to watching Buddy from Cake Boss I nailed it! My son choose coffee and walnut for the head, chocolate fudge for the body, carrot cake for part of the tail and lemon drizzle for the end of the tail.
Oscar’s 17th Florida Gators Birthday
To make the alligator first draw your alligator body shape on your cake board, then place your cake circles or squares on the board, carve the cake to the shape drawn, cover with frosting, roughly shape and add the eyes, eyebrows and nose now in icing.
Roll your icing out to your thickness then roll across a alligator skin impression mat, place on your alligator cake, repeat until covered, when covering the head you can now mould the icing over the eyes and nose to create a more life like look. Using a chopstick or special tool join up the alligator skin on the joins to hide the seam. Using edible spray paint add some texture to the alligator. Next make four legs by rolling a large ball of icing to a burrito shape, pinch out 4 claws and bend to look like a leg.
To make the spines roll out your icing about 2 inches thick, cut the icing to the shape of the tail and pinch up spines in three lines of spines and place on the tail, for the body you will need four lines of spines.
Roll out your t shirt icing and coping the picture place on the alligator with the name and number of the birthday boy or girl.
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