The Practice Monkey Cake

My son was probably only 4 months old when I had the monkey theme for his first birthday picked out.  I decided that since I didn't want to screw up his cake for his birthday I should probably practice doing it at least once before then.  This was the first attempt, without any of the right colors for the frosting that is.

While I know it definitely needs some work, I didn't think it came out too bad for my first try at it.  I ended up sending this one into work with my husband so we didn't eat the entire cake between the two of us at home.  I ended up being asked to make a cake for a little girl's 6th birthday after this one was seen!