How to Make a Marshall Paw Patrol Pup Birthday Cake - Video Cake Decorating Tutorial #1

Marshall Paw Patrol Pup Birthday Cake

Last week, my lovely niece turned 4 years old (where does the time go?) and she is absolutely mad about Paw Patrol. She’s been talking about having a Marshall Birthday Cake at her Paw Patrol party for, well, almost a year. And for it to be absolutely paw-perfect, it had to be of her favourite pup, which is Marshall! 

Paw Patrol Cake Decorating Video Tutorial

So, I've filmed a step-by-step cake decorating video tutorial on how I made this Marshall Paw Patrol cake, just click on the picture below to view!

If you're thinking that you could never do something like this, it may surprise you to know that this was my first attempt at a 3D character cake. My video breaks it down into "bite-size" (excuse the pun) steps, and I show you all the little tips and tricks I used such as using mini-flower cutters for Marhsall's Dalmatian spots. 
Making this cake was a labour of love (just over 20 hours to complete) but so worth it for the look on her face when she saw it. And I was so thrilled with the way it turned out.

Edible Elements

 All the elements were edible, something my niece can attest to when she ate Marshall's fire-pup shield! And, if you watch the video to the end, you can see what I used to make the "glass" in Marshall's torch.

Would love to know what special birthday cakes you've made, do let me know in the comments below.

Equipment, Tools, Materials Used

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Review of Lesson 2 of Intensive PME Professional Diploma in Sugarpaste

This is my review of Lesson 2 of Intensive 5 Day Course for the PME Professional Diploma Course in Sugarpaste.

The opening talk in Lesson 2 of Intensive 5 Day Course for the PME Professional Diploma Course in Sugarpaste covered awareness of a professional approach to business, including the need to find out about the health and hygiene regulations you would need to conform to if you start selling your cakes professionally, the finances of running a cake business and what to consider when taking orders and payments.

The practical session of Lesson 2 of Intensive 5 Day Course for the PME Professional Diploma Course in Sugarpaste covered cake carving, using textured rolling pins including basket weave, levelling and preparing a fruit cake for icing by use of marzipan. We also had to cover the top of the marzipaned cake with a layer of sugarpaste which we then textured, in preparation for creating an inlaid plaque in week 3.

Pillow Cake with Basket Weave Texture

For my carved cake, which had to include use of the PME basket weave rolling pin and feature the garret frill cutter, I choose to create a pillow cake. You can find the recipe for my Chocolate Cake in my Chocolate Cushion Cake post. I also used the technique of inlaying cut-outs that we had covered in Lesson 1.

I made my own template for the cushion cake. My chocolate cake recipe provides a firm cake and I made the cake the day before using it to ensure that it was firm enough for carving. Once carved into the shape of a cushion cake, I split the cake, filled it with chocolate buttercream and then crumb-coated it with a thin layer of chocolate buttercream. I covered the cake in two colours of sugarpaste. For the bottom layer, I used plain dusty pink sugarpaste, and I then used my own template to cut the fondant to shape before placing the carved cake on top of it, gently bringing up the fondant to shape around the cake. I covered the top of the cake with a layer of sugarpaste that I had coloured a light brown and textured with a basket weave rolling pin. This paste was also cut to shape before placing on the cake. I eased the two layers of sugarpaste together but was not too worried if there was a small gap, as I used my sugarpaste gun to create contrasting piping – as you would find on a real cushion.

I decorated my cushion cake with an inlaid garret frill and fabric effect flowers.

I really enjoyed this class and there was a lot of creativity demonstrated. There were 9 students in this lesson and such a variety of carved cakes were produced, including a Chinese Steamer Basket with sugarpaste sushi! It was very inspirational and there was no overlap in ideas between students at all.

You may also be interested in my other reviews of the Intensive 5 Day Course for the PME Professional Diploma Course in Sugarpaste: Lesson1, Lesson3, Lesson4, Lesson5 and Final Presentation Board and Presentation Celebration Cake.

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