As the latest episode of Cake Boss begins, Buddy goes on the Dan Patrick radio show to discuss the cake Nissan wants him to make to celebrate their sponsorship of the Heisman Trophy, the award given to college football's best player. Patrick, the snarky former Sportscenter anchor, is one of the Heisman voters. He's got the iconic trophy right in front of Buddy.

Buddy says he's going to make a cake of the trophy so authentic that Patrick won't be able to tell the difference.

“No flowers," Patrick says. "Don't screw up the cake Buddy.” Hold on, hasn't this guy seen Buddy's highlight reel? He's the Barry Sanders of bakers.

Back at the Lackawanna factory Buddy welcomes Marissa, winner of the Cake Boss contest spinoff show Next Great Baker. Her prize is getting to work for Buddy and learn all his tricks. Or at the very least a job with 8.5% unemployment.

Marissa is unique in that unlike other Carlo's employees she's young, female, fit, attractive and not pasty white. She's already getting to sit in on Buddy's planning for the Heisman cake. He wants to put the trophy over a football field surrounded by bleachers seating over a thousand people.

Buddy is going to keep Marissa focused on decorating. She's already fallen behind and Frankie calls her a rookie. “I'm not used to so many people working on one cake,” she says.

“The trick is Marissa, you have to know what I'm thinkin' before I think it,” Buddy says.

Meanwhile, back at the old bakery Mauro approaches his wife Madeline. It's their twentieth wedding anniversary. “Come on, we gotta go someplace,” he says.

Mauro says that since Buddy took the whole family on a trip to celebrate his tenth wedding anniversary with Lisa, and that Joey remade the cake from his and Grace's wedding twenty years ago, he wants to do something different.

He and Madeline taxi into New York, stopping at a...tattoo parlor! Mauro is getting inked! As a bonus, the parlor is the Rooster Street Social Club, site of the TLC show NY Ink – crossover alert!

Mauro tells the tattooist Tim he wants a picture of Madeline on his arm. How nice. It was either that or a large Polynesian glyph on his face.

Mauro says he always wanted a tattoo but thought he was too old school from the old country to get one. “Wait till my family hears,” Madeline says.

Tim prints out a sketch and then measures Mauro's arm. The ink is going to be about ten inches big. Tim brings the needle to Mauro's thick arm, and at the first prick and pain Mauro swears in his native Italian.

Back at Lackawanna the bakers break for some shenanigans. Danny puts on a high school football uniform, and he and Frankie run through the halls throwing a ball. In pads and helmet Danny looks like the spitting image of bruising fullback Larry Csonka. Not the '72 Dolphins version, the one now.

Poor Marissa. She's struggling on her first day and everyone around her is fooling around. Sensing a perfect opening, Cousin Anthony comes over to hit on her. “You play football?” he asks. “Not really,” she says. “You want to?” he asks. He basically just asked her to come see him deejay at the dance club Friday night. Next thing Marissa is wearing a helmet and people are throwing balls at her. Welcome to the NFL, rookie.

Meanwhile, at the parlor Madeline is bleeding profusely out of her eyes. The tattoo version that is, the one on Mauro's skin.

Mauro tells Tim how he and Madeline met. Mauro was working construction at the bakery when he saw Madeline. He asked Buddy Sr. about her, who set them up on a date. “My first impression was, he's such a nice big strong guy,” Madeline says.

Back at Lackawanna, the Heisman cake is coming along. Ralph is working on the statue, and he's nailing all the details – the gallant pose, the intrepid stare down the field, the thrusting stiff arm, the sinewy, pulsating buttocks.

The tattoo is done too. Madeline sees it and thinks it's great. It really does look like her. Of course if she ever changes her hairstyle...

Mauro is ecstatic. “I have her here all the time now,” he says. What a nice, loving couple they make!

The Heisman cake is finished. The football field is the cake equivalent of grand new Cowboys Stadium, even with some jumbotrons, though without Jerry Jones' ego.

They deliver the cake. Buddy tells Marissa to ride in the back of the truck to keep the cake upright. Welcome to the bakery, rookie.

“Marissa did pretty good,” Buddy says. “Looks like we're gonna keep her around for a little bit.”

Buddy and crew bring the cake to the Heisman dinner where the trophy is to be awarded. Lots of people are there, including 1986 winner and later disappointing Jets quarterback Vinny Testaverde.

Everyone loves the cake. The cake trophy looks great. Eat it, Dan Patrick. You can't stop Buddy, you can only hope to contain him.