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
I took ideas from another alligator cake but I changed a few things. First I cut the shape of a head from a small oval cake pan. Then I used the bunt cake pan for body but shortened on piece for the tail. I used mini round cake pans (larger than cupcake size) cut in … Read more
We got the idea for a crocodile cake from this website. However we changed the instructions and made due with what we had at home. We made a 9×13 cake and a bundt cake. The bundt cake was cut into three equal sections turned opposite each other for the body. The 9×13 was cut into … Read more
This Gator Birthday Cake was not as difficult as I thought it would be considering I haven’t baked a cake in over 30 years. It was easy since the night before baking it, I drew up a template on sketch paper in the actual cake size that I wanted but it still took 5 hours … Read more
I made this Homemade Swamp People Birthday Cake for the son of one of my husband’s coworkers – he loves the show Swamp People. I started several days ahead of time making the leaves, dragon fly, and cats tails out of marshmallow fondant- it is very humid in Louisiana and fondant does not like to … Read more
A love of the Crocodile Hunter – Steve Irwin led to my three year old demanding a crocodile cake! Not sure what to do I searched the internet for a crocodile or alligator cake, hoping to make it more feminine. We threw in Captain Hooks hook, some pirate money and Tinkerbell. The body of the … Read more
The idea for this crocodile cake came from my sons love for reptiles and Steve Irwin. We put our heads together to come up with this cake after searching different websites for crocodile cakes. The croc was carved out of a pound cake already made from the freezer section at the grocery. It’s more firm … Read more