Triceratops Cake

My son's obsession as he turns three is dinosaurs!  So, what better cake than a triceratops for our three year old's birthday cake!

Will and I are so proud of this one!  Most of our cakes are someone else's design with our creative perfectionist selves tackling it.  This one, we found the idea after googling dinosaur cake images.  But, we didn't get anything specific.  We are quite proud of what we came up with.

The one clue we were given was one circle cake, cut in half and stood together like on the right.  A second cake baked in a loaf pan, cut into pieces for the head, tail, feet.  

Here is what we came up with un-iced.  Will drew the general shape of the head, tail, and feet on a loaf pan shape to make sure we had enough cake for the slices.  Then we arranged them.  Added ice cream cones for the three horns.  (We just used a steak knife to saw them to a more appropriate size.)  We used a tostada for the frill.  It was the perfect size and crinkly shape, just the only piece that wasn't sweet and yummy.

And, now the iced end product.  (We used the dairy-free vanilla cake on the blog.  Iced with a store-bought vanilla icing, turned green with 75 green food coloring drops and 25 blue food coloring drops.  Tubes of white and chocolate icing for the eyes and beak.  Mini chocolate chips for down the back and on the frill.  Regular chocolate chips for the toes.)