"Birthday Dinosaur!"

I had planned to try my hand at a 3-d, sitting triceratops, but while at Hobby Lobby for something else, Jacob grabbed this Wilton pan and marched down the aisle, saying "Birthday Dinosaur!" and that was that. I'm sure it was actually much easier, especially since I cheated and used the tubes of the Wilton premade icing for almost the entire thing. The downside? The cake is really, really sweet. But that's probably good, because it means little pieces.
Rick is not a fan of chocolate cake, but the boys always pick out chocolate cake mixes, so I thought I would be sneaky and purchase a 6 pack of white cupcakes at the store, pull the character rings off of the bright frosting and stick a dinosaur in them. But....I had taken Rick's car to the store, which has absolutely no trunk space (thanks to some enormous speakers that make him very happy), so I had to pile the groceries in the front seat so Jacob wouldn't eat them on the way home. Somewhere between Kroger and home, they slid sideways and all the frosting went everywhere. In my desperation to salvage them, I scraped off all the remaining frosting, and piped on some matching green frosting for grass and stuck the little dinos in them anyway. They're all gone, so apparently I did ok.