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 and the second layer is filled with crushed pineapple and buttercream filling. It is then iced in buttercream with a textured trim and garnished with a buttercream flower!

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!