My 17th birthday Florida Gators cake was so awesome, I loved it. My mum is not a baker and only makes one cake a year, my birthday cake! Mum watched Buddy from cake boss on you tube to see how he made his 16ft life size alligator cake and followed his lead and made me the best most awesome Florida Gators Alligator Cake!
I had four cake flavours in my cake the head was coffee and walnut, the whole body chocolate fudge, half the tail was carrot cake and the rest was lemon drizzle, a flavour for everyone.
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, add the eyes, eyebrows and nose now.
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 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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