Yeah, took me a week of baking sheet cakes, and about 9 hours decorating, but mr alligator is now finished.

He is 4 and half feet long, and weighs about 50 lbs. His head is strawberry, his chest is chocolate, his back is yellow and his tail is lemon! Serves 250 people (I hope!)

I just had to share him with you guys!

Oh wow! That is amazing! Great job!

Dang! loriemoms! That is awesome! Is that an alligator or a crocodile? What is the occasion? I am super curious!

Just perfect! Don't let your dog out of your sight! The Croc? might get 'im!

Super job!!!

Great job!!

Wow, good job!! =)
...50 pounds!!!! mmm...lots of cake!!!

He looks great! I love his smiley face! He wouldn't harm a dog now would he!!

I love it!

And OMG--what a BUNCH of WORK--good work, that is!

--Knox--

FANTASTIC is all I can say lol wish I had your talent

darcat

THat is really cool!!

that is awesome. Good job.

That is so cool! You did an awesome job!

I'm not a fan of the gators seeing I'm a Seminole, but this cake ROCKS! You must of had fun doing
this cake. Good job!

Wow! Awesome. How did you transport it? What kind of event was it for?

You did a really good job on that! I know that took a really long time.

Fantastic job!

Great job. Hope you took pictures along the way so you can share a "how to" with us. Love the expression on his face and the bright green.

Wow! Looks Amazing!

You have awesome talent

I was looking forward to seeing this and you didn't leave me disappointed. Extremely impressive!!!! Super job!

Wow! Great job! How long did it take?

that is absolutely awesome...

great job!!

Great job! That's one big cake. I'm curious what the occassion was. Not very often you get a request for a gator.

Wow, that's a piece of croc cake! looks great! you did marvelous job on this one!

Thanks guys! I had a ball doing it! (and I am so glad I didn't do the stars! I would still be working on it! haha I think I cut out 200 circles!)

This is for a swim team, called the Abbington Alligators. They just finished up their season and have a big banquet, which features this huge cake. (there are about 100 members in the team, so they come and their parents, etc) The back of my car folds down flat to 5 feet, so three of us are going to carry him out to the car.

He took 7 sheet cakes, so it took me a week to bake them (everyday after work, I would put one in the oven) and last night when I came home from work around 5 and took the cakes out of the freezer, made the buttercream and began to kneed all that fondant! Pulled out all my sketches (I couldn't decide to make him cute or real..decided to go with cute) and started working away! I finished him at 3:30 this morning!! (working constantly...my legs are more tired then anything, becuase I had him in one room and had my fondant layed out in another! hahaha

I have attached a "naked picture" You can see, he is pretty simple underneith it all.

The transformation is amazing. You did a wonderful job! I'm sure that was a lot of work. I'm also sure that everyone will love it!

loriemoms:

You say he weighs 50 pounds?

I just can't get the picture you put into my head standing on the scale holding the Alligator shaking your head wondering how you gain all that extra weight......

BTW - great job, he is magnificent!

That is one amazing cake!!!! I don't think I would have the patience for something that involved!!

Awsome !!! What a project!!! I'd be scared to death to even dream making something of that dimension. Congrats!!!

GREAT JOB!!!

Amazing gator!!!!! that's a piece of art!!! I'm sure they'll appreciate it!!