"I can figure it out."

Marshal has always been interested in cooking and baking. When he saw the tv shows "Ace of Cakes" and "The Cake Boss" his comment was, "I can figure it out." That is what started The Cake Marshal. He has been doing cakes for birthdays, weddings and other special occasions since 2006. He loves it when clients start by saying that they are not sure if it would be possible to do their idea in cake. He enjoys the challenge that each new cake provides. No matter what challenge or seemingly impossible task surfaces while working on a cake, he sticks with his origional statement. "I can figure it out."



Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Upside Down Canoe





This grooms cake was fun. The groom was the Aquatics Director at Maple Dell Boy Scout Camp. So this cake represented something he saw on a regular basis. If you look close you can see that there are 2 scouts in life jackets carrying their canoe because they swamped it. 

Cupcake Tower






This couple wanted to do cupcakes, but still have something to cut. So we made a cupcake tower topped with a two tier cake that they could cut at the reception. The cake stand was custom made for the number of cupcakes, and the size of the tiered cake that they wanted.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Red and Black Wedding



This couple wanted to have a black and white wedding with red as their accent color. The cake was actually chocolate (as close as we could get to black) and red velvet, so it matched their colors even when it was cut. It was decorated with red roses.

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Tutu

This was for a Ballerina Birthday Party. The birthday girl loves pink so it had to be pale pink. The skirt was made of cotton candy layered over the cake. It was a big hit with the kids.

Twilight


The recipient of this cake was obviously a Twilight fan. The cake was wrapped with fondant and the picture was hand painted onto it using icing.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

RIP in Ice Cream


This cake was for a birthday boy who doesn't like cake. This "cake" was made almost entirely out of Rocky Road ice cream. There was around an inch of cake for a base and then rest was ice cream. It was frosted in Vanilla ice cream that we colored gray. The grass and the lettering were in butter cream icing.

Thomas the Train






This was for a birthday boy who loves Thomas the Train. It was a special request that it was a 3D train.The whole train is cake and the smokestacks were sculpted from tootsie rolls.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Cupcakes

The Cake Marshal can do cupcakes too.  We had a ton of fun figuring out the flavors and decorations for the following cupcakes. These were made for a birthday celebration.





These Ice Cream Sundae cupcakes were chocolate,chocolate chip cupcakes with a scoop of icing as the "ice cream. They were topped with a waffle cone, cherry, chocolate sauce and chopped nuts.




These Raspberry Lemonade cupcakes had raspberry cake, with lemon cream cheese frosting. They were garnished with ripe raspberries and lemon peel curls.



These Pina Colada cupcakes had yellow cake with pineapple and coconut mixed in. They were then topped with marshmallow icing and roasted coconut. 

Sunday, March 6, 2011

The Very Hungry Caterpillar





This cake was for a  first birthday party. This was quite a challenge to figure a way to get a smash cake as well as enough cake for the rest of the party. I decided to do more that the main character of the story. The Caterpillar was the smash cake for the one year old. What the caterpillar ate through was the cake for the rest of the party. The lollipop and ice cream cone were not cake, they were the real thing. I decided to copy the art from the book as closely as possible, which is why the icing is not completely smooth on the cakes.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Paisley Wedding








This bride and groom wanted something pretty unique. They wanted to have a touch of western in an otherwise traditional wedding. We decided to add a paisley pattern on the layers of the cake in their darker wedding color and then accent with silver.  The pearls on the cake were edible, the ribbon and pearl string on the bottom of each layer were not.

John Deere Tractor







This cake was requested for a Groom's cake, and it had to be a John Deere. It was made to scale using the actual measurements from the John Deere website. The cab was made of poured sugar so you could see through it. The tires were sculpted and there are tire tracks in "mud" on the cake board.