Dragon Cake: Dessert for the dragoniest Dungeons and Dragons meeting

My gaming group's April meeting was a dragon-and-spring-themed potluck.  So I made a cake shaped like a dragon!  I looked online at a variety of different ideas, but then settled on using this one as a basic pattern/idea.   (Note: this is an Instructables page, which should be OK. But it seems to want to create warnings with my anti-virus software.)

1. Bake two 9-inch round cakes. (Mine were triple-chocolate-fudge, from a mix. Feel free to judge me, but it tasted awesome.)
2. Cut one in half for the body
3. Cut the other into pieces vaguely like this:
   
   
   
4. Assemble the cake using buttercream frosting, cutting to shape as needed. (I used almond-vanilla buttercream, using the Wilton frosting recipe)
   
   
5. Crumb-coat entire dragon with buttercream.  Refrigerate/freeze to solidify before decorating.
   
   

   
   
6. Use frosting to create textured skin (I used two colors of orange-y/yellow-y frosting to try to add some depth).
   

   
   
7. Decorate!  

I used:

• Chocolate-covered grahams (cut) for spines
• Pull-and-Peel Twizlers for flames
• Fruit Roll-ups for wings (on straws)
• Black licorice for nostrils and eyebrows 
• Mini oreos (opened and with pieces of tops) for eyes

I think he turned out pretty cute. The eyebrows make him look a little sheepish, but I really thought they were needed to make the dragon less mean-looking.  

After our game night there was a lot of leftover cake, so I brought it to work to share.  People hacked it up, but they left the face.   He looked so sad and sat there for so long...

I took off the face-decorations and the cake was finished in less than 10 minutes!