This was for my SIL's graduation from college. Growing up, his parents told him when he had a difficult challenge to approach it the way you would eat an elephant - one bite at a time. His mom wanted that saying and an elephant on the cake, so I just made the cake an elephant. Rice krispy treats for head and feet. Dairy-free chocolate cake and chocolate buttercream. I'm not entirely happy with the scale of the body to the head, but everyone enjoyed it, and it was meaningful to him.