Cake Boss on TLC- Page 2

[Eris0303]

Posted: 7/14/09 at 12:02pm

That FAO Schwartz cake was a delight. I laughed when the kids started touching it. Gives new meaning to the phrase "playing with your food".

[blueroses]

Posted: 7/14/09 at 12:50pm

Dottie, I wish Garren's bakery was in New York. I would LOVE to order that Sound of Music cake for my sister!

[madbrian]

Posted: 7/14/09 at 12:55pm

Isn't he the one who NEVER does the same cake twice? Or am I getting my celebribakers mixed up?

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 7/14/09 at 1:01pm

My favorite cake decorating show is Amazing Wedding Cakes. Buddy is very talented, but he's got NOTHING on Christopher Garren!

I LOVE this show but would not order from Merci Beaucoup Cakes. It's very hit or miss. Did you see the oragami crane cake? The simple ribbon around each layer was messy. The crane was messy. They are very very hit or miss. I like the other bakeries where the perfectionists live. :)

[blueroses]

Posted: 7/14/09 at 1:14pm

JG, I agree that Merci Beaucoup is hit or miss! I hated the crane cake but absolutely loved the comic book cake.

I was turned off when they didn't throw away the gross, dried out rice krispies treats that Reva's husband made...they just added more crap to them to salvage the batch. I know they didn't want to waste food, but it still bothered me for some reason. If it's bad, start over again! People are paying a ton of money for those cakes and deserve something delicious baked from scratch.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 7/14/09 at 1:16pm

Truth and it's not like it costs more than $4 to make a whole batch of crispy treats. I hated the way they just globbed it on there.

[madbrian]

Posted: 7/15/09 at 7:20pm

Hey, check out my new avatar. It's Buddy with my daughter's birthday cake!

[supportivemom]

Posted: 7/15/09 at 10:40pm

Wow! Thanks for sharing! I had to enlarge your av to get a better view and then I got this HUUGGE view! Your daughter will love it!

[blueroses]

Posted: 7/15/09 at 10:59pm

Buddy looks adorable there! What flavors did you choose?

[madbrian]

Posted: 7/15/09 at 11:07pm

It's yellow cake with chocolate fudge filling. Can't go wrong with that for 14 year-olds. Buddy was very gracious, as was everyone else in the store. His sister Lisa helped us when we placed the order, and she couldn't have been nicer. TLC was filming while I was there today, so I had to wait awhile for Buddy to be available. In addition to posing for the picture, he also signed a t-shirt I had bought for my daughter.

My daughter got home a little while ago, and saw the cake, t-shirt, and photo for the first time (it was all a surprise!). She flipped out, and immediately made the photo her facebook avatar.

[blueroses]

Posted: 7/15/09 at 11:14pm

I'm glad you had such a great experience. I hope the cake tastes as delicious as it looks.

And happy birthday to Claire!

[supportivemom]

Posted: 7/15/09 at 11:16pm

yeah- ditto to what blueroses said! How exciting for your daughter. Now- make sure she practices her guitar EVERY day! She may fight you but stick to your guns. Daily practice really made a difference in my son! (even if it's about 15 or 20 minutes- just make sure she practices!)

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 10/25/09 at 10:50am

New season starts tomorrow night!

[kate2]

Posted: 10/25/09 at 11:53am

I go to school with one of Buddy's nephews. Every time I see him I bug him to get me a cake! Anyway, I love the show... anybody remember "Stretch" the delivery boy? What ever happened to him?!

[uncageg]

Posted: 10/25/09 at 1:41pm

I caught a few commercials for this show and decided to stick with my favorite, Ace of Cakes. Can't wait for the Harry Potter season finale.

[winston89]

Posted: 10/26/09 at 3:34pm

I was flipping around the TV channels late last night and saw an episode of this on TLC. I had never seen it before so I watched it for a little bit. I do know if it because my brother and his girlfriend trekked out to Hoboken to see the bakery and to get some of their cannolis. I had asked him what the difference between this and Ace Of Cakes was. He said that the differences is that while the Cake Boss's cakes look amazing, they also taste amazing as well. Whereas the folks at Charm City Cakes have a tendency of sacrificing flavor for it to look good.

In the bit of the episode that I caught, one of the other bakers either misheard an order or accidently baked the wrong thing or something along those lines. All of a sudden, the cake boss came in and was yelling at them in a very thick Italian accent trying to make heads and tales of the situation. I thought it was like The Sopranos if Tony owned a bakery.

[madbrian]

Posted: 10/27/09 at 8:13am

Last night they showed the first two new episodes of this season, and frankly, I was disappointed. It seemed much more staged, with obviously contrived shenanigans.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 10/27/09 at 8:50am

After the delivery guy (not Stretch but the cousin who dropped the cake last season) got in the car accident I was yelling at the tv. I'm pretty sure the guy in the black truck was in the wrong

[madbrian]

Posted: 10/27/09 at 8:58am

"the cousin who dropped the cake last season"

They keep replaying the dropped cake, and it was the other guy's fault, not the young guy.

For me, the missing ring bit was phony, as were the scenes with all the sisters together.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 10/27/09 at 10:50am

I saw an episode last night where a bride who was at odds with her mother ordered a cake. The mom wanted traditional. The bride wanted different, but liked calla lilies. They ended up making an off white draped cake with calla lilies. My first thought was that it was lovely, but not at all what the bride wanted. When she saw it, she called it ugly. While he was out of the room, she globbed colored icing all over the cake. This HAD to be staged. They acted mad, but surely no one would ever do that. Why destroy a cake that could be salvaged or used by someone else?

[Eris0303]

Posted: 10/27/09 at 12:10pm

That episode was discussed earlier in this thread and I'm still not sure if it was staged. What gives me pause is that there are people in this world who would do that. It's not outside the realm of possibility. Watch Bridezillas some time. There are women on that show who throw gorgeous floral arrangements to the ground, toss their wedding bands into classes of wine because they didn't have enough "bling", get their ex husbands to pay "child support" and then put it towards the wedding, steal their fiance's debit card and empty his account. Yes, one could argue that this stuff is scripted too but some of it is too crazy to make up.

I did feel the bit with the eating of the flowers was scripted. I could have sworn she picked up the edible flowers and took a bite.

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 10/27/09 at 12:12pm

You mean Mary? At that point, the edible flowers hadn't been made yet. That we saw, anyway.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 10/27/09 at 12:18pm

I could have sworn I saw him painting "pollen" on a lily before she came in.

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[Kalimba]

Posted: 10/27/09 at 12:57pm

Fake show.

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 10/27/09 at 3:16pm

Oh, it's totally staged. My mother works with Stretch's mom, and she's said that it's staged. Although, I did also hear that he was offered his own show, though I don't know if he wants one.