Mother's Day White Alligator Cake

This New Orleans White Alligator Wedding Cake is made with Haydel’s famous almond wedding cake. It is a double-layer/split-layer cake, meaning one layer is filled with strawberry jam and buttercream filling, & the second layer is filled with crushed pineapple and buttercream filling. It is then iced in buttercream with a comb-textured trim and decorated for Mother’s Day!

Since its founding in 1959 as a small, 24-hour window-service bakery by Mildred and Lloyd Haydel, Haydel’s Bakery has since become a legendary New Orleans-area institution for its wide variety of scratchmade cakes, cookies, pastries, and more family-recipe NOLA-inspired treats – and its king cakes are a Mardi Gras tradition for countless locals. Haydel’s is today run by the third-generation of the Haydel family, and owner David Haydel is the only baker in Louisiana who’s internationally certified as a Craftsman and Master Baker. In 2010, Haydel’s even broke the Guinness World Record for the World’s Largest King Cake!