Name: Cake Boss
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Description: Cake artist Buddy Valastro runs Carlo's Bake Shop in Hoboken, NJ. While supervising a team including his mother, sisters and other family members, he works to achieve his late father's dream of making the bakery a household name.

Cake artist Buddy Valastro runs Carlo's Bake Shop in Hoboken, NJ. While supervising a team including his mother, sisters and other family members, he works to achieve his late father's dream of making the bakery a household name.

WBD - Sweet Escapes

Buddy gets a call from a customer he cannot possibly turn down -- Brides magazine. But last minute changes mean Buddy has to crack the whip to make the deadline.

A Bride, a Boat and Bamboozled

Buddy learns that where there's smoke, there's fire when they have to build a fire engine cake complete with working lights, siren and smoke. And Buddy re-creates his father's trademark cake for the family memorial dinner.

Fire, Fashionista, Family

It's one of the busiest weeks of the year at the bakery when a last minute cake turns into more than the team bargained for. In addition, three family members are celebrating birthdays and Buddy's sister takes over Easter dinner.

Bunny, Birthday and Burnt Food

The team at Carlo's is asked to make a huge roulette table cake for a local businessman. It's also the start of wedding season and the time-consuming wedding cake orders are piling up, throwing Buddy off the handle.

Weddings, Water and Whacked

Buddy agrees to make a charity biplane cake for a local hospital, a bridezilla makes everyone's life difficult, and Stretch plots revenge against Buddy with unexpected results.

Bridezilla and Busting Buddy

Buddy's thrown out of his comfort zone when he's asked to make a zombie cake. And the team also has to make an erotic bachelorette cake for some wild women. It's all fun and games until Mama finds out!

Undead, Unclothed and Unhappy

Buddy is excited to create an old-school wedding cake like the kind his father used to make -- tall, ornate and filled with live birds! A dad-to-be comes to the bakery to order a giant lobster tail pastry for his pregnant wife.

Doves, Ducks and Delicacies

The Carlo's team heads to a museum for a prehistoric mammal cake. A Sweet 16 is more work than anyone planned on, and Frankie makes and decorates a cake all by himself for a very hard to please client -- his cousin, Mary!

Museum, Mistakes, Mother Mary

Buddy and the team are kids in a toy store when they are asked to make a FAO Schwarz-themed cake for a birthday party. They're also making a beach-themed cake for a beach club and to top it off, they begin a weight loss challenge.

Soldiers, Sand and Salads

The Carlo's team has a challenging week. They're working on a traditional Chinese dragon cake for a dragon boat racing team and preparing hundreds of shells for their annual celebration of National Cannoli Day.

Chinese Culture and Cannolis

Buddy is used to putting out fires, not starting them but all that changes when he's asked to make a tiki cake that spits fire. If that weren't enough, Mauro challenges him to ice a cake blindfolded!

Blindfold, Bikini and Fire

Buddy has to channel his inner-Italian to create a Leaning Tower of Pisa wedding cake. Then he gets into hot water when he must pull together a show-stopping lobster-bake-themed cake at the last minute.

Leaning, Lobsters and Lectures

A fellow family-owned business asks the team to honor their patriarch by creating a special cake featuring their company's product -- fireworks! Then Buddy attends "Bring Your Dad to School Day" at Buddy Jr.'s elementary school.

Fireworks and Fathers

Buddy makes a cake for The Greatest Show On Earth. Later, celebrity chef Rachael Ray stops by to ask Buddy for a special request. Finally, Buddy has a surprise for not only his family, but also for his pregnant wife Lisa!

Circus, Celebrity and Surprise

Buddy takes the bakery gang on a fishing adventure and gets inspiration for a shark cake for the 35th anniversary of a family friend's charter boat company. Lisa's pregnant and smelly fish ain't no joke.

Shark Cake and Smelly Fish

Buddy works with four little aspiring bakers, all suffering from a life-threatening illness, on their personal "Make-A-Wish" cake. And it doesn't stop there as Buddy plans to wow the foundation with a special hot air balloon cake.

Happy Little Bakers

Buddy gets one of his hardest cakes yet -- a request for a replica of a toilet that actually flushes! Later, the owner of the Denim Lounge is having a baby shower and asks Buddy for an unusual baby shower cake.

Toilets and Textiles

Buddy showcases pride in his Italian heritage by making tribute cake for the Columbus Day Parade that's so big it requires forklift to lift! Lisa and Buddy get her six month ultrasound.

Ships, Sonograms, Sister Drama

Buddy and Lisa prepare to welcome their fourth child, while getting the bakery ready for Valentine's Day, one of the busiest days of the year, choosing godparents, preparing the nursery and navigating a breech pregnancy.

Baby Special

Buddy gets a request from hockey-lovers wanting a full-sized, arcade-style hockey table cake complete with moving figures that can be played. Joey and Mauro experiment with a classic Italian cookie recipe.

Pucks, Pastries, Pushy Grace

The crew designs a cake for "Staten Island Chuck," New York's official groundhog. Later, Buddy makes a topsy-turvy cake for a client based off Ripley's Believe It Or Not. Finally, the family pays tribute to Sal.

Staten Island Chuck

WWE Champion Santino Morella visits the bakery and orders a massive "Road to Wrestlemania" cake. A psychic gives Buddy a reading and asks for a crystal ball cake. Grace has a zeppole meltdown when the pastries are not up to snuff.

Punches, Psychics and Pastries

Designer Isaac Mizrahi commissions Buddy to make seven fashion-inspired cakes that his models will carry down the runway. Buddy checks on construction of his new factory, then visits the doctor where he finds out he needs surgery.

Designer, Deadlines, Diagnosis

Buddy must create an eight-tiered flower cake for the Philadelphia Flower Show and a life-sized accountant cake in celebration of tax season. But will he be able to take it easy before he goes in for his hernia operation?

Tulips, Taxes and Take It Easy

Buddy's chosen to be the Grand Marshall of Hoboken, NJ's St. Patrick's Day parade, and a couple orders an intricate second anniversary cake, but Mauro will have to make it since Buddy's away for surgery.

Surgery and St. Patty's

Buddy attempts to create a shuttle cake for NASA that lifts off. Meanwhile, at the bakery, he wants to change the Carlo's store display and catalogue with the help of his baking crew. And later, he makes a special cake for Momma.

Space Shuttle and Stepping Up

Buddy takes on one of his most difficult cake builds, creating a cake for 4,000 that represents houses from around the world for Century 21's 40th anniversary. And he has to somehow get it to the event in Las Vegas!

Houses, Help, Hitting the Road

Buddy makes a surprise cake for Anthony that looks like a DJ setup -- complete with lights and moving turntables. And a client requests a cake for their medivac unit and offers Buddy a chance to deliver it by helicopter.

Headphones and Helicopters

Buddy is asked to create a giant Bumblebee cake to help promote the blockbuster movie Transformers 3 and the all new Camaro that will be on display at the New York Auto Show. Meanwhile, Grace is left in charge of the bakery.

Big Bumblebee and Bossy Grace

Buddy makes a bowling cake that leads to a boys vs. girls match on the lanes. Meanwhile, he must make a special cake for Sophia's first communion and he gets news that there are complications at his new factory.

Competition and Complications

Buddy's asked to make a cake with real insects as the ingredients. Meanwhile, a friend of one of the bakers just got her heart broken by her fiance, so Buddy makes a cake for her dating comeback party.

Bugs, Breakups and Burned-Out

Buddy creates a go-cart cake that's driveable and a special birthday cake for a family friend who's turning 101.

Moving Cake, Marbles, Mess-Ups

Buddy makes a giant Cheeseburger Cake in honor of National Hamburger Month. Later, he and the crew are honored to make a special cake for the American Cancer Society.

Cheeseburgers and Cures

Buddy gets a special request from a client who wants a cake with real fire in it for roasting marshmallows for his annual camping trip. Meanwhile, a friend stops by with a request for a cake wired with phones and a computer.

Campfires, Computers

Buddy and the crew make a replica cake of a client's prize milking cow that actually milks! Also, a family new to Hoboken requests a special cake to cheer up their homesick son. Finally, Joey and Grace discuss a big decision.

Prize Cow and a Predicament

Buddy is asked to create an edible chandelier cake that must hang upside down! Meanwhile, it's Baby Carlo's christening and Buddy's pulling out all the stops to make it special.

Chandelier Cake

Wedding bells sound more like roars when Buddy makes a giant dinosaur cake for a dino-loving couple getting married in a museum. And for their 10-year anniversary, Buddy gets romantic by proposing to Lisa all over again.

Paleontology

The State Fair Meadowlands is celebrating their 25th anniversary and Buddy has the perfect cake in mind. Meanwhile, Joey and Grace's son has been accepted to Syracuse University and they celebrate with a SU-themed cake.

State Fair, Syracuse Bound

Buddy helps celebrate Rolls-Royce's new dealership in Chicago, but building the cake is just half the problem. Meanwhile, it's time to make history as Buddy makes a cake for a very special couple in Long Island.

Transport Troubles

Talk show host Regis Philbin stops by Carlo's to learn how to decorate cakes from Buddy himself. Meanwhile, a bride requests a wedding cake to celebrate her 50th wedding! Finally, Joey gets a visit from his old fire chief.

Funny Regis and 50 Weddings

Carlo's is all abuzz when Buddy makes a giant behive cake complete with real honey. Later, a wife wants to prank her husband, and all jokes are put aside when Grace and Buddy get down to business.

Bees, Beware and Business

Racecar superstar Danica Patrick stops by Carlo's, and Buddy has the perfect cake for the job. Meanwhile, Lisa's vow renewal plans speed along as she and Buddy's sisters head to their own special consultation at Kleinfeld's.

Chocolate Racecars

Buddy brings back his father's old Spumoni ice cream cake recipe, and goes on a hunt with some professional ghost hunters to find out whether the Lackawanna factory is really haunted.

Spirits and Spumoni

It's Halloween, and a so-called vampire requests a life-sized coffin cake, a man plans a special proposal for his medical school girlfriend, and Mary has the perfect costume for the Buddy's holiday costume party.

Coffins and Costumes

Carlo's Bakery is bubbling over when Buddy makes a washing machine cake for Tide, a young couple asks Buddy to make them a gender reveal cake, and Lisa's going crazy from the vow renewal secrets!

Soap, Sonograms and Surprise

The guys put together a huge tiki bar, complete with a drink-serving volcano, for Maurizio's 21st birthday surprise party. Later, a movie crew needs Buddy to make a wedding cake that's going to be featured in a film.

Props, Pies and Party Time!

Buddy takes Lisa ring shopping to upgrade her wedding band, Buddy C. celebrates his birthday with a pool party, and Joey surprises Grace with a replica of their original wedding cake.

Church and Carats

For Thanksgiving, Valastro-style, the whole family comes together with their culinary expertise to prepare a big Italian feast. Plus, Buddy gives the bakery crew a surprise lunch complete with a massive turkey cake.

Family Feast

Buddy is asked to make the most expensive cake in his career -- a diamond cake with pearls. Later, Buddy thanks his construction staff with a good old BBQ, and Grace starts her redecorating project.

Bling, Barbecue and Blueprints

Buddy makes a realistic Trash Truck cake for a family friend. Later, two ladies request a special cake for their friend and founder of their synchronized swim team.

Trash, Twirls and Tough Love

Buddy has a window of divine inspiration when Father Bob orders a cake for an honored church member. And despite their crazy schedules, everyone finds the time to surprise Danny for his 50th Birthday.

Stained Glass, Surprised Danny

Celebrate Chinese New Year Cake Boss-style. Buddy heads down to Chinatown with a dragon-themed cake to ring in the Lunar New Year.

Fast Hands and a Flaming Pearl

Buddy celebrates his heritage by making a cake in honor of Lady Liberty herself. Plus, Mauro finally realizes his goal of becoming an American citizen.

Liberty, Layups and a Dinner

Joey and the guys are commissioned to make a cake that looks and tastes like beer. Then, Buddy delivers a tropical wedding cake to two florists getting married.

Beer, Buttercups and Bumbling

Buddy takes on a monumental task when he's asked to make a Mt. Rushmore cake. Then, Marissa must make her famous Peanut Butter Cake to impress the Lisas. And Mary makes a return to Carlo's.

Presidents, Peanuts,Popping-in

Buddy builds a fully automated car wash cake complete with edible cars that really get clean. Later, a couple celebrates a huge milestone: their 75th wedding anniversary.

Working at the Car Wash

One cake, two cakes. cat cake, hat cake. Watch Buddy make a Dr. Seuss cake using gears and levers to make it spin.

Silly Seuss and Surprise!

Buddy and his kids take a tour of Blue Sky Studios, home to the creators of "Ice Age" for a sneak peak of their latest movie. But the fun has just begun as he sculpts a frosty cake inspired by the movie.

Ice-ing On the Cake

Buddy is put to the test when he must make a special birthday cake that works as a real elevator. And Mauro is charged to make a cake for the North Jersey Spelling Bee

Going Up?

Grace throws an "Under the Sea" theme party for her daughter Bartolina's Sweet 16 and Uncle Buddy has the perfect cake in mind -- a real aquarium with a colorful cake reef and edible sharks.

Under the Sea

It's a busy week when Buddy makes a special deli case cake for a family friend. Meanwhile, his sisters request a special cake to celebrate three first communions.

New Deli, New Design

A Carlo's creation goes higher than ever before when a team of skydivers decides to take a cake with them during a jump -- and eat it as they fall. Then, Buddy makes a cake for his niece Tessy.

Cakes On a Plane

A crisis rocks the Valastro family when Buddy's Mama returns to celebrate the Easter holiday in Hoboken. To lift Mama's spirits and the rest of the family, Buddy decides to make a special one-of-a-kind cake.

A Bittersweet Homecoming

Buddy is given 24-hrs to create a cake for legendary actress and comedienne Betty White. Meanwhile, the family learns more of Momma's condition.

A Golden Opportunity

Celebrity couple Mario Lopez and Courtney Mazza commission Buddy to make them a one of kind wedding cake and get it to their ceremony in Mexico.

Ugly Feet and a Fiesta

Buddy plays mediator to an argumentative couple trying to decide on a cake design for their party planning business. And later, Buddy makes a cake for Petfinder.com to celebrate a giant milestone: 20 million pet adoptions.

From Fury to Furry

To celebrate the 237th anniversary of the U.S. Army, Buddy is creating two very special cakes: one for an audience of troops in Times Square, and the other for a unit of soldiers in Afghanistan.

Operation: Tank Cake

Buddy must conjure up a magic-themed cake for shock illusionist Dan Sperry, who challenges Buddy to make a cake with no instructions.

Hocus Pocus

To celebrate the Rockettes' 85th Anniversary, Buddy is creating a Rockettes-themed cake with the famous Radio City Music Hall neon sign.

Buddy and the Rockettes

Buddy and his team create an amazing cake for a new Children's Hospital in Chicago. Plus, a couple decides they want a wedding cake that matches their gray invitations.

Cut the Ribbon and the Cake!

This week Buddy creates a 2,000-pound moving carousel cake for Steel Pier Amusement Park in Atlantic City.

Twirls, Whirls and Crashes

The Carlo's Bakery team rallies around their head coach Buddy as they build a special cake for NY Giant's Coach Tom Coughlin's charity foundation. Then, Marissa decides it's prank payback time for the boys.

Players, Lawyers, Pranksters

Hit the lights. Buddy must create a 5-tier Bollywood wedding cake that incorporates special effects lighting for a young couple. Plus, Marissa is given an opportunity to try out her cookie recipe at the bakery.

Light Up the Night

Buddy must create a moving crane cake for a local scrap metal company, but the engineering of the crane might prove to be too difficult. Also, puppy love is in the air when Buddy makes his first ever dog wedding cake.

Crane Cake and Puppy Love

Dust off your cowboy boots Hoboken. Tim McGraw is giving away a brand new house to a military veteran, and he needs a cake from Buddy to reveal the big surprise.

A Cowboy In Hoboken

With great cake, comes great responsibility. This week Buddy takes on a superhero challenge when he's asked to make a cake for Spiderman's 50th Anniversary.

Superheroes and Bakers Unite!

It's a very busy week at the bakery as the family prepares for Momma Mary's Benefit Gala. And Buddy's invited a special performer that's sure to surprise Momma and the guests.

We Will Survive

Days after Hurricane Sandy, Buddy and the crew return to Carlo's to assess the devestation. With no electricity and clients who still need cake orders, the team will have to work their decorating magic in near darkness.

Hurricane Sandy Strikes

Buddy is asked to create a special cake that will wow millions of viewers for Good Morning America's Robin Roberts. Plus, Mauro makes a cake for a spinning instructor who wants to honor his mentor.

Welcome Back Robin!

Buddy makes a life-sized wedding dress cake for a local bridal shop, and the owners are giving away a free dress to the bride who finds the coin hidden inside. Later, Buddy creates colorful cakes for a cake smash photo shoot.

Cake Smash

Buddy must create a massive ski mountain cake with a working chairlift and have it delivered to the top of a mountain. And Ashley's Next Great Baker 3 nemesis, Paul, returns after he loses everything in Hurricane Sandy.

Sugary Slopes

Buddy and his team are making a cake to raise money for hurricane relief in Hoboken, New Jersey -- that is, if they can spell everything right on the cake! Later, Buddy makes a sushi boat cake for a local Japanese restaurant.

Rebuilds and Raw Fish

Buddy and the family work around the clock to open their new Carlo's Bakery in Ridgewood, NJ. But with a new team to train and a blizzard on the way, they'll struggle to open in time. Identical twins request a birthday cake.

Seeing Double

After months of hard work on the new Carlo's Bakery, a blizzard threatens to delay the grand opening. Meanwhile, Mary takes a cake order for an action figure volcano cake and needs Ralph's help to lead the design.

Snowed Out

Two demanding Russian restauranteurs ask Buddy to make a cake recreation of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. Meanwhile, Buddy's sisters stage an intervention for Next Great Baker 3 enemies Paul and Ashley.

From Russia With Cake

Buddy's asked for the impossible when fashionistas order a glow-in-the-dark zombie cake for a show. At Ridgewood, a family asks for a specialty cake on the spot, but it's uncertain whether he'll be able to come through.

Glow in the Dark Cake

Buddy pumps up the flavors on a life-sized cake for a female bodybuilder, and Mauro goes undercover to help with a surprise marriage proposal at the bakery.

Muscles and Marriage

Buddy and the family are put to the test for their busiest Easter yet, managing two bakeries. Meanwhile, Buddy creates a massive basket cake for a local charity. And Momma returns home for a visit and an all-important checkup.

Easter Basket Case

Ashley challenges Buddy to go head-to-head when the bakery gets an order for a fire and ice cake. And a survivor of a subway construction accident asks Buddy to make a special cake thanking the many heroes that saved his life.

Fire and Ice

A client asks Buddy to make her an unusual cake -- one that grows a mustache! Meanwhile, he faces his toughest critics when he attempts to make the perfect First Communion cake for his son, Buddy Junior.

Hair-Raising

Buddy's asked to create a submarine cake for the U.S. Navy Submarine Ball, and Mauro's asked for a very special Bat Mitzvah cake.

Buttercream Submarine

Buddy's asked for a cake that pops out from inside another cake to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of a summer camp for kids, and he makes a cake for a dodgeball team celebrating their latest victory.

Camp Carlo's

Buddy makes a 14-foot, 800-pound replica of Mighty Mike, an alligator at the New Jersey Aquarium. The former Mrs. New Jersey asks for a dazzling pageant cake. Momma prepares for a long journey to Israel for treatment.

Gator Bite

Buddy gets an order for Willie Nelson's 80th birthday cake and the family can't wait to meet him -- until Buddy realizes he has a commitment with his wife on the same night! And he makes a cake for his daughter's birthday.

On the Road Again

Buddy makes a Cinco De Mayo cake for a local mariachi band's fiesta. Later, a local salon requests a spa-inspired cake to celebrate their grand opening, and the sisters and Lisa get makeovers in the process.

Viva Cake Boss

Buddy gets an order for a lowrider cake that bounces! A promoter wants a Coliseum cake for a Roman costume party, which means the team needs to dress the part, too. Later, Buddy and the team take a yoga class, Hoboken-style.

Pimp My Cake

Next Great Baker Ashley is getting married, and Buddy is making the wedding cake and groom's cake. Sounds like an easy order except her vision for the cakes includes taxidermy animals and ping-pong!

Next Great Bride

Buddy saddles up to create a giant cake -- a cowboy riding a horse for a professional rodeo association. And a couple surprising their families with an impromptu wedding asks Buddy to make a cake for their top-secret celebration.

Carlo's Cowboys

Buddy creates a samurai cake for the 50th Anniversary of a New York martial arts school and a patriotic cake for the Mayor of Jersey City, then he turns the decorating room into a sumo wrestling ring!

Sicilian Samurai

Buddy's making one of his weirdest cakes for a client's boyfriend who's like a human garbage disposal when it comes to eating, a couple wants a tow truck wedding cake, and Anthony's mistakes leave Buddy questioning his future.

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