Cake Boss (2009) s01e01 Episode Script
A Bride, A Boat, and Bamboozled!
BUDD Y: On this episode of "Cake Boss" This week is, like, crazy.
GRACE: Maria McBride from Brides magazine is on line one.
McBR I DE: I need your help, Buddy.
Brides magazine, inside cover -- awesome.
This is go time.
-There's no friggin' sugar.
-BUDD Y: I mpossible.
How the hell do we not have sugar in this bakery? JOEY: Production just stopped.
We have empty ovens.
If the ovens aren't full, we don't make any money.
Here's your sugar! All right, listen! Enough.
I got to be out of here.
The orders go from God to me to you.
-This is Carlo's Bakery.
- ## Sugar ## Every week, thousands of cakes and pastries go out these doors.
This is the crew -- mia famiglia.
We're gonna take this bakery to the top.
They call me Buddy.
I'm the boss.
## Sugar ## ## Oh, sugar, sugar ## Come on.
We got to go.
We got to go.
We got to go.
This is it, man.
This is go time.
We got no margin for error.
All right, I need everybody on their "A" game today.
This week at Carlo's Bakery is a crazy week.
Danny, you're gonna clear off this bench.
You're gonna cut and fold and get ready to pull.
We're gonna make 400 birthday cakes, 2, 000 cupcakes, hundreds of pastries, hundreds of pounds of biscottis and cookies, five monster wedding cakes, four or five huge specialty cakes.
I got zero room for error.
I got zero room for mistakes.
I really have to make this happen.
I hope my sisters downstairs understand what I got to do this week and just give me a little courtesy to try not to break my chops.
[ Beeping .]
Hey, guys, where's the pastries? Where's the other stuff for the store? Just be patient, because I got a lot of things going on.
-Don't break my chops.
-Come on, guys.
BUDD Y: That's my sister Mary.
What can I say? Mary is just a little rough around the edges.
She just is a little blunt.
Well, why not? It's 7:30.
I know the time, Mary.
I don't need you to tell me what time it is.
Mary can be the best or Mary can be the worst.
Who's making this butterfly? This is the ugliest -- Are you trying to scare our customers? You know, sometimes she just doesn't handle situations the right way.
You have to help me.
I can't help you.
I don't know your daughter, dear.
She's actually really a good person with good intentions.
She just comes off the wrong way sometimes.
I need chocolate-dipped cannoli shells, little ones.
BUDD Y: That's my sister Grace right there.
I know Grace's annoying voice.
She's my oldest sister, she's level-headed, and I love her.
All right? And ice-cream cakes.
-I know.
I'm working on it.
-And I have no cupcakes.
I'm doing the best I can, all right? You know, basically, my father was a god.
M y father, Buddy Sr.
, he was this magnificent baker who everybody looked up to and respected.
Words cannot explain what a good father he was.
I lost him when I was 17.
I made a promise to him.
This bakery -- I'm gonna make it a household name.
I will do what I have to do to make this happen.
GRACE: Buddy, on line one, you have a phone call.
Maria McBride from Brides magazine.
Pick up on line one, Bud.
BUDD Y: Buddy.
May I help you? McBR I DE: I need your help, Buddy.
Whatever you need, I'm here you.
You know that, Maria.
McBR I DE: I'm calling you because I really need a showcase cake.
It's the inside back cover.
Brides magazine wants me to do a huge shoot, inside cover -- awesome.
I mean, the best possible scenario for publicity you can get.
McBR I DE: Key is, I need it this week.
-[ Laughs .]
-We're shooting on Friday.
-You're shooting on Friday, huh? -Yeah.
BUDD Y: No matter what, even if I'm slammed, no matter what I have to do to get this done, I got to do it.
-McBR I DE: Have a good day, -You too.
McBR I DE: Bye-bye.
All right.
We have a cake for Friday for Brides magazine.
Six-tier monster.
They want something piped, something old-school.
You can't say no because that's an opportunity of a lifetime.
And I also love the whole theme of it.
She said black and white.
I was like, "Ah!" Like, the light went off in my head.
I saw this six-tiered cake perfectly iced in white fondant where it was so perfect and square with the smallest double-zero hand-piping techniques in black on it.
I saw red flowers on it -- beautiful red roses.
But she's like, "What about white anemones?" That's beautiful.
That's the perfect flower.
I mean, it's white and it has a black center and little black things coming out of it.
You got to make Brides magazine happy.
I said, "Let's try the anemones.
" The first thing I got to do is dirty-ice this cake.
And "dirty-ice" means taking buttercream and kind of crumb-coating the cake and it makes the fondant stick to it.
We use it kind of like a glue.
We got to get that sugar.
Where's that sugar? I say, "All right.
Let's set up for royal icing and get the sugar.
" JOEY: Hey, Bud.
Not for nothing, there's no friggin' sugar.
I got all kinds of [bleep.]
lined up downstairs.
I'm down to three guys.
I got no sugar.
BUDD Y: That's my brother-in-law Joey.
He does a lot of the baking.
He's a little bit of a hothead.
But when push comes to shove, he knows who the boss is.
Not a bag of sugar.
I mpossible.
JOEY: Frankie, is it impossible? If it's impossible, I got to be friggin' blind.
BUDD Y: Little Frankie -- He's family.
He's my cousin.
I'm godfather to his daughter.
He's still got a lot to learn.
I nventory this week told me there were 20 bags of each.
There's two guys that check the inventory downstairs.
And they're telling me there's no sugar? Maybe they needed 20 bags! You got to use your brains! If you didn't order any sugar last week -- I ordered 25 bags of each last week.
How the hell do we not have sugar in this bakery? Things are at a standstill.
I got all this work to do.
And I ain't got time for this.
Go and get sugar! Okay? Just go and get sugar! I can't do any more than I do.
I can't.
I can't.
JOEY: Production just stopped.
We have empty ovens.
If the ovens aren't full, we don't make any money.
If we have nothing to put in the oven, you have nothing to do.
I don't want to hear it now.
I got enough things on my mind.
JOEY: You ain't gonna have cakes to fill 'cause we got no sugar.
But who checks the stock?! The problem in here is communication.
Everybody wants to -- me, da, da, da, da.
But nobody wants to say, "Hey, we need this" or "We need that.
" Now I got to lose a guy for an hour to go pick up sugar.
When something goes wrong, then we got to hear him.
Is that what we want to do, peoples? BUDD Y: Mauro is a.
k.
a.
Chef Mario.
He's my brother-in-law.
I would say he's my right-hand man.
Huh, peoples? Is that what we want? I'm just sick of it.
MAURO: Well, you want to be the boss, right? Everything's got to go through you.
If something goes wrong, it's the boss that's -- BUDD Y: Yeah, well, I do my end, Mauro.
I'm not an accountant.
You know, I'm an Italian baker in Hoboken, New Jersey.
It kind of goes with the territory, you know? I can't be a cream puff.
Once in a while, I got to step it up a notch.
When I say something, I want people to jump.
That's how it's got to work this week.
We're Italian.
Italians -- rah, rah! We're loud people.
We're family.
There's gonna be fights.
JOEY: Where'd you go, China? Shut up! Here's your [bleep.]
sugar! JOEY: You screwed up.
You didn't get the sugar.
Now you throw it on the bench like it's my fault.
You know, come on, Frank.
Come on, Frank.
Get it right the first time.
BUDD Y: You got to understand something.
You're working with these same people 15, 18 hours, five, six, seven days a week.
Things are gonna get heated.
-[ Clatter .]
-Get this off the bench first.
BUDD Y: This isn't a library.
This isn't church.
[ Grunts .]
This Brides magazine cake is like the biggest thing ever.
It took a couple hours, but we got the cake iced and stacked, ready for that old-school design that Maria wants.
But if I don't get these flower petals started, we're gonna be in big trouble.
People like Maria McBride know what they want.
She told me that she wants white anemones on the cake.
These anemones are such a pain in the neck to make that my staff was actually calling them "enemies.
" [ Chuckles .]
I would say to make one anemone, it probably takes 20 to 30 minutes per flower.
And you got to do 30 of them.
GRACE: It's a busy week.
And now we have a cake for Brides magazine.
But it's also Buddy's birthday on Friday, and we want to throw him a surprise party.
Bud We're gonna trick him into making his own birthday cake with a pretend customer.
He wants a boat? For this weekend? [ Both laugh .]
BUDD Y: A lady called up.
She wants a boat cake for this week.
What am I gonna say? As bad as I know that I don't want to do it and I'm gonna be overworked, you got to make the customer happy.
The whole thing will be cake.
It'll probably be pound cake.
But the bottom, too? When I had to think of what would be the perfect cake for Buddy, it was really quite easy.
Buddy's passion and the thing that he enjoys most is to fish.
Tell her we're doing her a favor.
All right.
MAN: Frankie, why'd you put this slip here? FRANKI E: Which? I didn't put a slip there.
BUDD Y: Listen, listen, listen.
I don't want to hear anything.
I'm in the zone right now.
Maria McBride says, " I want some piping detail on the cake.
" You know, that's me.
I'm old-school.
I was born and bred on piping.
What I'm doing is taking black royal icing, squeezing it through a tiny, tiny tip, and drawing designs on it.
When you're piping black onto white, it's a one-shot deal.
There's no room for mistakes.
You put it, it stays.
Otherwise, you have to take the fondant off and put a new fondant on.
Any slip of the hands could cost you hours of work.
You really got to be on your "A" game.
All this stuff that I got on my plate, I go to get a cup of coffee.
Grace says to me, "There's an e-mail.
" Who could that be? And the whole Mary fiasco begins.
I get the e-mail, and it basically says that you your big-mouthed sister told me to go scratch and I'm never coming to your bakery again.
Mary's got a history of being rude to customers.
Print me a copy of it so that I'm gonna take her upstairs and speak to her about that.
I want to see you upstairs in a minute.
-Me? -Yeah.
I'm enfumed now.
You know, I -- That's it.
The Hulk is coming out.
And I could feel my insides knotting and twisting.
[ Sighs .]
Now read this.
Read it aloud.
"Last week when I came into the store, some rude, big-mouthed blonde jumped down my throat for no reason.
" I really don't even remember having an argument.
Yeah, but you're downstairs now.
Grace tells me you're being rude to people.
Buddy, Grace strolls in at whatever time she strolls in.
I'm helping customers! She's answering e-mails.
It's not my fault.
-I helped like 40 people -Listen, okay? and made every single one of them very happy.
Enough! Mary! Enough! Listen! I get this e-mail from a customer complaining about Mary.
I confront her about it, and she's mad at me! Just because she's my sister and I love her -- and I do -- and I feel that she does a lot of good, she can't get away with being that way.
I got to get back to work.
The number-one target to me was the Brides magazine cake.
And I started piping my heart out.
You know, I'm piping like a madman.
And then things start to change.
I forget everything.
Everything gets quiet.
I don't hear nothing.
You know [ Exhales deeply .]
I'm in my zone.
I could feel the stress coming off of my body, just coming off me.
I was doing good.
MARY: Earlier, Buddy called me into his office and accused me of being rude to a customer.
And I just wanted to end it because I thought it was so stupid.
If I did, I would tell you.
Promise me you're gonna make a conscious effort to be nicer.
I promise you, but I don't remember being mean.
You know I love you.
We did hug each other.
And it's done.
It's over with.
-Aah! -[ Laughs .]
BUDD Y: I got all these cakes going on, things are starting to fall in place and then there they go.
They got to stick me.
They said, "Oh, what about the boat cake?" I'm like, "Oh, my God.
I actually forgot about the boat cake.
" All right, Remy, get the boat.
All hands on deck.
Let's go to the boat cake.
Think boat, Buddy, think.
[ Sighs .]
I kind of thought, "What would I like for a fishing boat?" And, you know, boom -- It popped in my head.
I see white, blue, and it's got some chrome on it.
A little fisherman guy fishing.
Maybe we even put some fish on it.
I think some fish will look cool.
And I know what I got to do, and I can nail this down.
So the first thing we had to do was carve the cake.
And we iced it in the fondant.
We got to start adding detail to it.
We had to make the doorway to the little cabin underneath.
The rails around the front.
And I had to put water.
And I used piping gel, where I made it really crystal blue, and I kind of did like a wavy pattern all over the cake.
We had a little bait box.
We had a tackle box, a little cooler.
We had a fisherman.
All made out of modeling chocolate, which means it's all edible.
And the more we put on it, the nicer it looked.
It was coming awesome.
I love it.
Makes us want to go fishing, no? WOMAN: It looks amazing.
Oh, my God.
It's Thursday.
And I still got a lot a lot of cakes to finish, but the number one on the list is the Brides cake by far.
Looks pretty good.
Right.
This will be the back.
The big photo shoot's tomorrow.
I was skeptical about using the anemones as a topper 'cause they're more of a flat flower.
But to tell you the truth, this actually worked beautiful.
-Buddy, you outdid yourself.
-MAN: How do you do that? BUDD Y: I finished, I stepped back, and I started to admire my work.
GRACE: Buddy, have you a call on line one.
Maria McBride from Brides magazine's on line one.
McBR I DE: Just thinking about all of the different options.
I know it's kind of a crazy last-minute concept, but what it means, Buddy, is us picking out two more cake ideas that you can execute.
Two more cakes? Are you nuts, lady?! And I got to have it ready for Friday? Maybe we do maybe two smaller cakes? I can't say no.
She knows I can't say no.
So I'm stuck.
I mean, I don't know what I'm gonna do.
She just dropped a bomb on us.
I mean, she dropped like an atomic bomb on the bakery.
M y team was P.
O.
'd, like, big-time.
-McBR I DE: Talk to you later.
-Ciao.
McBR I DE: Bye-bye.
-All right.
-Are you kidding me or what? BUDD Y: Agreeing to do these cakes equated into my team having to make another 650 petals of anemones, okay? Plus we had to get two cakes rockin' and rollin' ASAP.
M y vision for these next two bridal magazine cakes, the first one, I wanted to go with stenciling.
Very much goes with the feel of the other cake, but it's different.
The second cake, I'm gonna use black fondant and then cut out all different floral patterns.
I'm gonna still use the anemones to tie all the cakes together.
Okay.
Give that to Violet.
I got to put people in gear.
I also got to get the rest of the cakes for the week done.
I got a lot of work still.
A lot a lot of work.
I just hope we have the time to do it.
It's gonna be close.
JOEY: Yo-yo, come here.
Then the other one's a 5.
No, they're not! This is 6! This is 5! These are the ones I picked up the first time! All right, all right.
Listen, listen! All right, listen! Enough! Everybody shut up and get to work.
I don't want to hear it.
The orders go from God to me to you.
We got the cutouts on the one cake.
I love it.
We did the stenciling on the last one.
Very sexy.
Today's all about the flowers.
I got to put the flowers on these cakes.
All right.
Everybody, come look.
MAURO: They look beautiful.
That's what we want.
BUDD Y: I was so happy with the cakes that I made.
I was so proud of me.
I was so proud of my team.
And I was like, "Okay, let's get in action.
" Get in and go.
We got to go to the car.
Danny, watch the top.
-DANN Y: Don't worry about it.
-BUDD Y: Don't mess it up, Danny.
-Watch the top.
-MAN: Take it easy.
BUDD Y: Watch out.
I still had to get the cakes in the truck drive through the tunnel, get them to New York, and get them to Maria.
I was really nervous about these cakes falling.
There was absolutely no way in hell that I was letting that cake get damaged in any way, shape, or form.
I really, really want to wow Maria, and I think we nailed it.
Hello.
Beautiful.
BUDD Y: I mean, I got some cakes that are phenomenal.
McBR I DE: Those are fabulous, Buddy.
BUDD Y: To hear it from Maria McBride of Brides magazine Not bad for three days' work.
[ Both laugh .]
M y father was looking down on me.
He was proud.
[ Camera shutter clicks .]
M illions of people are gonna see this magazine.
It's huge.
Huge.
I love it.
I really, really love it.
Wow.
What a shot.
Right now I'm thinking I wish my dad was here.
You know, I wish my dad was here to see where I am and what I've done.
Before he died, I told him, "Dad, one day, everybody in America is gonna know who we are.
I promise you.
" He is definitely smiling down on me right now.
-Salute.
-WOMAN: Salute.
-McBR I DE: Excellent.
-BUDD Y: Cheers.
I was proud of what we did, and a weight lifted off my shoulder.
But there's still one thing I got to do.
I got to deliver this boat cake to this restaurant.
I'm backing into this room, and I'm looking at Mauro.
And I walked into the room and I didn't see anybody 'cause I was looking at the cake.
-Surprise! -Surprise! BUDD Y: I hear, "Surprise!" and I almost jumped out of my skin and dropped the cake.
[ Cheers and applause .]
Aww.
-Happy birthday! -Happy birthday, Buddy! I was touched, you know? They got me.
They really got me, you know? It was really, really nice.
So we didn't get paid for it? -Oh, my God! -[ Laughter .]
This is to family, our famiglia.
-Salute.
-Salute.
Cheers.
MARY: Look at what clean cuts these are, Buddy.
You're a professional.
After a week like this week, to tell you the truth, I couldn't be with better people.
And, you know, what a perfect ending to a crazy week.
GRACE: Maria McBride from Brides magazine is on line one.
McBR I DE: I need your help, Buddy.
Brides magazine, inside cover -- awesome.
This is go time.
-There's no friggin' sugar.
-BUDD Y: I mpossible.
How the hell do we not have sugar in this bakery? JOEY: Production just stopped.
We have empty ovens.
If the ovens aren't full, we don't make any money.
Here's your sugar! All right, listen! Enough.
I got to be out of here.
The orders go from God to me to you.
-This is Carlo's Bakery.
- ## Sugar ## Every week, thousands of cakes and pastries go out these doors.
This is the crew -- mia famiglia.
We're gonna take this bakery to the top.
They call me Buddy.
I'm the boss.
## Sugar ## ## Oh, sugar, sugar ## Come on.
We got to go.
We got to go.
We got to go.
This is it, man.
This is go time.
We got no margin for error.
All right, I need everybody on their "A" game today.
This week at Carlo's Bakery is a crazy week.
Danny, you're gonna clear off this bench.
You're gonna cut and fold and get ready to pull.
We're gonna make 400 birthday cakes, 2, 000 cupcakes, hundreds of pastries, hundreds of pounds of biscottis and cookies, five monster wedding cakes, four or five huge specialty cakes.
I got zero room for error.
I got zero room for mistakes.
I really have to make this happen.
I hope my sisters downstairs understand what I got to do this week and just give me a little courtesy to try not to break my chops.
[ Beeping .]
Hey, guys, where's the pastries? Where's the other stuff for the store? Just be patient, because I got a lot of things going on.
-Don't break my chops.
-Come on, guys.
BUDD Y: That's my sister Mary.
What can I say? Mary is just a little rough around the edges.
She just is a little blunt.
Well, why not? It's 7:30.
I know the time, Mary.
I don't need you to tell me what time it is.
Mary can be the best or Mary can be the worst.
Who's making this butterfly? This is the ugliest -- Are you trying to scare our customers? You know, sometimes she just doesn't handle situations the right way.
You have to help me.
I can't help you.
I don't know your daughter, dear.
She's actually really a good person with good intentions.
She just comes off the wrong way sometimes.
I need chocolate-dipped cannoli shells, little ones.
BUDD Y: That's my sister Grace right there.
I know Grace's annoying voice.
She's my oldest sister, she's level-headed, and I love her.
All right? And ice-cream cakes.
-I know.
I'm working on it.
-And I have no cupcakes.
I'm doing the best I can, all right? You know, basically, my father was a god.
M y father, Buddy Sr.
, he was this magnificent baker who everybody looked up to and respected.
Words cannot explain what a good father he was.
I lost him when I was 17.
I made a promise to him.
This bakery -- I'm gonna make it a household name.
I will do what I have to do to make this happen.
GRACE: Buddy, on line one, you have a phone call.
Maria McBride from Brides magazine.
Pick up on line one, Bud.
BUDD Y: Buddy.
May I help you? McBR I DE: I need your help, Buddy.
Whatever you need, I'm here you.
You know that, Maria.
McBR I DE: I'm calling you because I really need a showcase cake.
It's the inside back cover.
Brides magazine wants me to do a huge shoot, inside cover -- awesome.
I mean, the best possible scenario for publicity you can get.
McBR I DE: Key is, I need it this week.
-[ Laughs .]
-We're shooting on Friday.
-You're shooting on Friday, huh? -Yeah.
BUDD Y: No matter what, even if I'm slammed, no matter what I have to do to get this done, I got to do it.
-McBR I DE: Have a good day, -You too.
McBR I DE: Bye-bye.
All right.
We have a cake for Friday for Brides magazine.
Six-tier monster.
They want something piped, something old-school.
You can't say no because that's an opportunity of a lifetime.
And I also love the whole theme of it.
She said black and white.
I was like, "Ah!" Like, the light went off in my head.
I saw this six-tiered cake perfectly iced in white fondant where it was so perfect and square with the smallest double-zero hand-piping techniques in black on it.
I saw red flowers on it -- beautiful red roses.
But she's like, "What about white anemones?" That's beautiful.
That's the perfect flower.
I mean, it's white and it has a black center and little black things coming out of it.
You got to make Brides magazine happy.
I said, "Let's try the anemones.
" The first thing I got to do is dirty-ice this cake.
And "dirty-ice" means taking buttercream and kind of crumb-coating the cake and it makes the fondant stick to it.
We use it kind of like a glue.
We got to get that sugar.
Where's that sugar? I say, "All right.
Let's set up for royal icing and get the sugar.
" JOEY: Hey, Bud.
Not for nothing, there's no friggin' sugar.
I got all kinds of [bleep.]
lined up downstairs.
I'm down to three guys.
I got no sugar.
BUDD Y: That's my brother-in-law Joey.
He does a lot of the baking.
He's a little bit of a hothead.
But when push comes to shove, he knows who the boss is.
Not a bag of sugar.
I mpossible.
JOEY: Frankie, is it impossible? If it's impossible, I got to be friggin' blind.
BUDD Y: Little Frankie -- He's family.
He's my cousin.
I'm godfather to his daughter.
He's still got a lot to learn.
I nventory this week told me there were 20 bags of each.
There's two guys that check the inventory downstairs.
And they're telling me there's no sugar? Maybe they needed 20 bags! You got to use your brains! If you didn't order any sugar last week -- I ordered 25 bags of each last week.
How the hell do we not have sugar in this bakery? Things are at a standstill.
I got all this work to do.
And I ain't got time for this.
Go and get sugar! Okay? Just go and get sugar! I can't do any more than I do.
I can't.
I can't.
JOEY: Production just stopped.
We have empty ovens.
If the ovens aren't full, we don't make any money.
If we have nothing to put in the oven, you have nothing to do.
I don't want to hear it now.
I got enough things on my mind.
JOEY: You ain't gonna have cakes to fill 'cause we got no sugar.
But who checks the stock?! The problem in here is communication.
Everybody wants to -- me, da, da, da, da.
But nobody wants to say, "Hey, we need this" or "We need that.
" Now I got to lose a guy for an hour to go pick up sugar.
When something goes wrong, then we got to hear him.
Is that what we want to do, peoples? BUDD Y: Mauro is a.
k.
a.
Chef Mario.
He's my brother-in-law.
I would say he's my right-hand man.
Huh, peoples? Is that what we want? I'm just sick of it.
MAURO: Well, you want to be the boss, right? Everything's got to go through you.
If something goes wrong, it's the boss that's -- BUDD Y: Yeah, well, I do my end, Mauro.
I'm not an accountant.
You know, I'm an Italian baker in Hoboken, New Jersey.
It kind of goes with the territory, you know? I can't be a cream puff.
Once in a while, I got to step it up a notch.
When I say something, I want people to jump.
That's how it's got to work this week.
We're Italian.
Italians -- rah, rah! We're loud people.
We're family.
There's gonna be fights.
JOEY: Where'd you go, China? Shut up! Here's your [bleep.]
sugar! JOEY: You screwed up.
You didn't get the sugar.
Now you throw it on the bench like it's my fault.
You know, come on, Frank.
Come on, Frank.
Get it right the first time.
BUDD Y: You got to understand something.
You're working with these same people 15, 18 hours, five, six, seven days a week.
Things are gonna get heated.
-[ Clatter .]
-Get this off the bench first.
BUDD Y: This isn't a library.
This isn't church.
[ Grunts .]
This Brides magazine cake is like the biggest thing ever.
It took a couple hours, but we got the cake iced and stacked, ready for that old-school design that Maria wants.
But if I don't get these flower petals started, we're gonna be in big trouble.
People like Maria McBride know what they want.
She told me that she wants white anemones on the cake.
These anemones are such a pain in the neck to make that my staff was actually calling them "enemies.
" [ Chuckles .]
I would say to make one anemone, it probably takes 20 to 30 minutes per flower.
And you got to do 30 of them.
GRACE: It's a busy week.
And now we have a cake for Brides magazine.
But it's also Buddy's birthday on Friday, and we want to throw him a surprise party.
Bud We're gonna trick him into making his own birthday cake with a pretend customer.
He wants a boat? For this weekend? [ Both laugh .]
BUDD Y: A lady called up.
She wants a boat cake for this week.
What am I gonna say? As bad as I know that I don't want to do it and I'm gonna be overworked, you got to make the customer happy.
The whole thing will be cake.
It'll probably be pound cake.
But the bottom, too? When I had to think of what would be the perfect cake for Buddy, it was really quite easy.
Buddy's passion and the thing that he enjoys most is to fish.
Tell her we're doing her a favor.
All right.
MAN: Frankie, why'd you put this slip here? FRANKI E: Which? I didn't put a slip there.
BUDD Y: Listen, listen, listen.
I don't want to hear anything.
I'm in the zone right now.
Maria McBride says, " I want some piping detail on the cake.
" You know, that's me.
I'm old-school.
I was born and bred on piping.
What I'm doing is taking black royal icing, squeezing it through a tiny, tiny tip, and drawing designs on it.
When you're piping black onto white, it's a one-shot deal.
There's no room for mistakes.
You put it, it stays.
Otherwise, you have to take the fondant off and put a new fondant on.
Any slip of the hands could cost you hours of work.
You really got to be on your "A" game.
All this stuff that I got on my plate, I go to get a cup of coffee.
Grace says to me, "There's an e-mail.
" Who could that be? And the whole Mary fiasco begins.
I get the e-mail, and it basically says that you your big-mouthed sister told me to go scratch and I'm never coming to your bakery again.
Mary's got a history of being rude to customers.
Print me a copy of it so that I'm gonna take her upstairs and speak to her about that.
I want to see you upstairs in a minute.
-Me? -Yeah.
I'm enfumed now.
You know, I -- That's it.
The Hulk is coming out.
And I could feel my insides knotting and twisting.
[ Sighs .]
Now read this.
Read it aloud.
"Last week when I came into the store, some rude, big-mouthed blonde jumped down my throat for no reason.
" I really don't even remember having an argument.
Yeah, but you're downstairs now.
Grace tells me you're being rude to people.
Buddy, Grace strolls in at whatever time she strolls in.
I'm helping customers! She's answering e-mails.
It's not my fault.
-I helped like 40 people -Listen, okay? and made every single one of them very happy.
Enough! Mary! Enough! Listen! I get this e-mail from a customer complaining about Mary.
I confront her about it, and she's mad at me! Just because she's my sister and I love her -- and I do -- and I feel that she does a lot of good, she can't get away with being that way.
I got to get back to work.
The number-one target to me was the Brides magazine cake.
And I started piping my heart out.
You know, I'm piping like a madman.
And then things start to change.
I forget everything.
Everything gets quiet.
I don't hear nothing.
You know [ Exhales deeply .]
I'm in my zone.
I could feel the stress coming off of my body, just coming off me.
I was doing good.
MARY: Earlier, Buddy called me into his office and accused me of being rude to a customer.
And I just wanted to end it because I thought it was so stupid.
If I did, I would tell you.
Promise me you're gonna make a conscious effort to be nicer.
I promise you, but I don't remember being mean.
You know I love you.
We did hug each other.
And it's done.
It's over with.
-Aah! -[ Laughs .]
BUDD Y: I got all these cakes going on, things are starting to fall in place and then there they go.
They got to stick me.
They said, "Oh, what about the boat cake?" I'm like, "Oh, my God.
I actually forgot about the boat cake.
" All right, Remy, get the boat.
All hands on deck.
Let's go to the boat cake.
Think boat, Buddy, think.
[ Sighs .]
I kind of thought, "What would I like for a fishing boat?" And, you know, boom -- It popped in my head.
I see white, blue, and it's got some chrome on it.
A little fisherman guy fishing.
Maybe we even put some fish on it.
I think some fish will look cool.
And I know what I got to do, and I can nail this down.
So the first thing we had to do was carve the cake.
And we iced it in the fondant.
We got to start adding detail to it.
We had to make the doorway to the little cabin underneath.
The rails around the front.
And I had to put water.
And I used piping gel, where I made it really crystal blue, and I kind of did like a wavy pattern all over the cake.
We had a little bait box.
We had a tackle box, a little cooler.
We had a fisherman.
All made out of modeling chocolate, which means it's all edible.
And the more we put on it, the nicer it looked.
It was coming awesome.
I love it.
Makes us want to go fishing, no? WOMAN: It looks amazing.
Oh, my God.
It's Thursday.
And I still got a lot a lot of cakes to finish, but the number one on the list is the Brides cake by far.
Looks pretty good.
Right.
This will be the back.
The big photo shoot's tomorrow.
I was skeptical about using the anemones as a topper 'cause they're more of a flat flower.
But to tell you the truth, this actually worked beautiful.
-Buddy, you outdid yourself.
-MAN: How do you do that? BUDD Y: I finished, I stepped back, and I started to admire my work.
GRACE: Buddy, have you a call on line one.
Maria McBride from Brides magazine's on line one.
McBR I DE: Just thinking about all of the different options.
I know it's kind of a crazy last-minute concept, but what it means, Buddy, is us picking out two more cake ideas that you can execute.
Two more cakes? Are you nuts, lady?! And I got to have it ready for Friday? Maybe we do maybe two smaller cakes? I can't say no.
She knows I can't say no.
So I'm stuck.
I mean, I don't know what I'm gonna do.
She just dropped a bomb on us.
I mean, she dropped like an atomic bomb on the bakery.
M y team was P.
O.
'd, like, big-time.
-McBR I DE: Talk to you later.
-Ciao.
McBR I DE: Bye-bye.
-All right.
-Are you kidding me or what? BUDD Y: Agreeing to do these cakes equated into my team having to make another 650 petals of anemones, okay? Plus we had to get two cakes rockin' and rollin' ASAP.
M y vision for these next two bridal magazine cakes, the first one, I wanted to go with stenciling.
Very much goes with the feel of the other cake, but it's different.
The second cake, I'm gonna use black fondant and then cut out all different floral patterns.
I'm gonna still use the anemones to tie all the cakes together.
Okay.
Give that to Violet.
I got to put people in gear.
I also got to get the rest of the cakes for the week done.
I got a lot of work still.
A lot a lot of work.
I just hope we have the time to do it.
It's gonna be close.
JOEY: Yo-yo, come here.
Then the other one's a 5.
No, they're not! This is 6! This is 5! These are the ones I picked up the first time! All right, all right.
Listen, listen! All right, listen! Enough! Everybody shut up and get to work.
I don't want to hear it.
The orders go from God to me to you.
We got the cutouts on the one cake.
I love it.
We did the stenciling on the last one.
Very sexy.
Today's all about the flowers.
I got to put the flowers on these cakes.
All right.
Everybody, come look.
MAURO: They look beautiful.
That's what we want.
BUDD Y: I was so happy with the cakes that I made.
I was so proud of me.
I was so proud of my team.
And I was like, "Okay, let's get in action.
" Get in and go.
We got to go to the car.
Danny, watch the top.
-DANN Y: Don't worry about it.
-BUDD Y: Don't mess it up, Danny.
-Watch the top.
-MAN: Take it easy.
BUDD Y: Watch out.
I still had to get the cakes in the truck drive through the tunnel, get them to New York, and get them to Maria.
I was really nervous about these cakes falling.
There was absolutely no way in hell that I was letting that cake get damaged in any way, shape, or form.
I really, really want to wow Maria, and I think we nailed it.
Hello.
Beautiful.
BUDD Y: I mean, I got some cakes that are phenomenal.
McBR I DE: Those are fabulous, Buddy.
BUDD Y: To hear it from Maria McBride of Brides magazine Not bad for three days' work.
[ Both laugh .]
M y father was looking down on me.
He was proud.
[ Camera shutter clicks .]
M illions of people are gonna see this magazine.
It's huge.
Huge.
I love it.
I really, really love it.
Wow.
What a shot.
Right now I'm thinking I wish my dad was here.
You know, I wish my dad was here to see where I am and what I've done.
Before he died, I told him, "Dad, one day, everybody in America is gonna know who we are.
I promise you.
" He is definitely smiling down on me right now.
-Salute.
-WOMAN: Salute.
-McBR I DE: Excellent.
-BUDD Y: Cheers.
I was proud of what we did, and a weight lifted off my shoulder.
But there's still one thing I got to do.
I got to deliver this boat cake to this restaurant.
I'm backing into this room, and I'm looking at Mauro.
And I walked into the room and I didn't see anybody 'cause I was looking at the cake.
-Surprise! -Surprise! BUDD Y: I hear, "Surprise!" and I almost jumped out of my skin and dropped the cake.
[ Cheers and applause .]
Aww.
-Happy birthday! -Happy birthday, Buddy! I was touched, you know? They got me.
They really got me, you know? It was really, really nice.
So we didn't get paid for it? -Oh, my God! -[ Laughter .]
This is to family, our famiglia.
-Salute.
-Salute.
Cheers.
MARY: Look at what clean cuts these are, Buddy.
You're a professional.
After a week like this week, to tell you the truth, I couldn't be with better people.
And, you know, what a perfect ending to a crazy week.