Cake Boss (2009) s01e11 Episode Script

BUDD Y: On this episode of "Cake Boss" What I want to do is to have fire.
That's really pushing the envelope.
I mean, I don't make cakes that spit fire.
Children, do not try this at home.
No.
I don't like this cake.
Yeah, but I already started it.
The last place I want to be is in the doghouse for my wife and my mother-in-law.
-You think you could do better? -I could do it blindfolded.
This is Carlo's Bakery.
Sugar Every week, thousands of cakes and pastries go out these doors.
Oh, sugar, sugar This is the crew.
Mia famiglia.
Sugar We're gonna take this bakery to the top.
They call me Buddy.
I'm the boss.
Sugar Oh, sugar, sugar -How's that? -Perfect.
Thank you.
Let me get someone to help you guys -- Stephanie.
-Have a great day.
-Thank you.
Bye.
All right.
Bye-bye.
Hey, Luis.
How are you, man? How's everything? Good to see you.
-It's that time of year.
-[ Laughs .]
-So I figured I'd come in.
-Big birthday bash.
I have a client who gets his birthday cake from me every year.
And every year, he wants me to up the ante.
He wants me to do something crazier, something different.
One year, he did, like, a '50s-themed thing.
He did a black-tie party.
He did a casino theme.
You know, he really wants the cakes to be the crowning jewel of his party.
So the theme this year is gonna be tiki.
-Tiki? -Yeah.
Tiki party.
Everyone's gonna be in, like, luau gear.
Floral.
There's gonna be fire dancers.
So the big thing, the big finale, is gonna be, after the fire dancers and everything, you put the cake down.
And then when everybody sees it, all of a sudden, like, this big flame comes out.
So we got incorporate fire somehow in this cake? -[ Laughs .]
-And then, you know, that's That's really pushing the envelope.
I know you can do it.
That's why I come here.
BUDD Y: So when Luis said tiki theme, I already got a picture in my mind of, like, erupting volcanoes and tiki heads all around.
For the fire, I'll start with burning tiki torches in each corner.
But for the real wow factor that Luis is looking for, I'm gonna do a giant tiki god with real fire shooting out of its mouth.
I mean this cake is gonna be hot -- smoking hot! MAN: Is that long enough, you think? MAURO: Yeah.
This is gonna go It's going to go even like that.
It'll be like three inches long.
And I'll put a pipe through there.
And you stand behind it, and you just -- poof! -- put a puff through.
And it'll come out the thing's mouth.
The way I'm gonna make this cake spit fire is make the tiki god like a big mask.
And then we're gonna get an actual fire-breather to stand behind the cake and do his thing through a hole in the tiki god's mouth.
You've heard of putting a lady in a cake.
I'm putting a fire-breather! All right.
Take it easy, brother.
Bye-bye.
All right, so let's fill this cake up.
MAURO: You filling it once or twice? DANN Y: Three.
MAURO: You're filling it three? DANN Y: Black and white.
BUDD Y: This cake has got to feed 125 people.
The big base is gonna be black-and-white cake, which is alternating layers of chocolate and vanilla sponge.
And we're doing like a truffle filling in between the layers.
Hey! Look who's here.
What's up? It's my cousin Vinny.
What's up, cuz? -How you doing? -Doing good.
Doing good.
BUDD Y: Cousin Vinny's my first cousin on my mother's side.
And he's marrying my wife's sister, Daniela.
Carlo's Bakery has found a lot of love over these years.
Of course, it starts with my mom and dad.
And in this generation, you got Mauro and Madeline, you got Grace and Joey, you got Lisa and Remy.
you got me and my wife.
We got so many people who actually met through the bakery.
Now we got cousin Vinny and my sister-in-law Daniela.
And I promised to do a cake for their bridal shower.
This is the luggage.
This is the gift box.
This is kind of like another type of luggage -- like a little more fun.
I don't know.
Maybe mix it up a little.
I kind of like the colors more on this cake.
She does like pinks.
Maybe this style.
Maybe bring in some of these colors.
We can do that.
That's very good, cuz.
You got the creative gene in you.
[ Laughs .]
All right, cuz.
I'll make you a beautiful cake.
I love you.
All right, cuz.
I'll see you later, man.
Take it easy, brother.
Let's cut the sponge.
So I got Danny started on the shower cake.
It's gonna be nice.
Three tiers.
It's gonna be done in shades of pink fondant, stacked, so it looks like a stack of luggages.
It's one of our most popular cakes.
Gonna put up the whipped cream? DANN Y: I'm gonna put a pot up.
Since 1925, this machine.
She still runs, every day.
DANN Y: So this cake is for your sister-in-law -- She's getting hitched? Another dummy, Danny.
Heh.
I'm on your side.
BUDD Y: Things are going good.
The tiki cake is happening.
The luggage cake is coming together.
Everybody's just rocking and rolling.
Then Mauro's got like a puss on.
What's wrong? I heard you're crying about something with cakes.
There's a lot of work to be done.
Everything still has to get iced.
You want this thing to shoot out fire, do this, do that.
There's still a lot of stuff that's got to get done on it.
You're icing the friggin' cake.
That's the easiest part.
It should be going like lightning.
You think you could do better? Icing the cake? I could do it blindfolded.
I will ice the cake, put a flower on the cake, blindfolded.
Buddy's always talking smack.
But I thought it was about time that he would put his money where his mouth is.
Blindfolded and fast.
That's how I do.
I don't want to know what the bet is.
I just want to see you do it.
How about you in a grass skirt and coconut bra in front of the bakery handing out cupcakes? -lf I win, what do I get? -I'll do the same thing.
I'll be outside in a grass skirt, in my coconuts.
Guaranteed that you're gonna be in the skirt.
I'll get the sponge.
No problem.
Here.
I'm gonna get the blindfold, 'cause you ain't cheating.
You blindfold me.
I want you to.
Okay.
BUDD Y: So you know what? Me and my big mouth.
I go and I'm like, "Hey, Mauro, I could do this blindfolded.
" He's like, "Oh, yeah, bigmouth? Let's see it.
" FRANKI E: He can't see what the hell he's doing.
[ Laughter .]
That's the easy part.
All right.
-Ooh, chef! -Yeah.
Beautiful.
Oh, my.
Oh! [ Laughs .]
Yeah! Who's your daddy?! For blindfolded, I'll give it to you.
Tiki outfit.
I don't want to sound cocky, but I did it.
And I can't wait to see Mauro in a tiki outfit.
Now, this is nice! Look at this thing.
Who wants to see Mauro in a grass skirt? Anybody? Yeah, but not with the chef coat.
-No, it looks funny.
-Let me take this off.
I can't believe I got to do this, but BUDD Y: Listen, it's tiki.
It's tiki time.
No.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Whoa.
-[ Laughing .]
Come on.
-Whoa, whoa, whoa.
-Come here.
-Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Your coconuts.
Coconuts.
Mauro looks hot in a hula outfit.
I don't know what anybody else thinks, but he's a sexy bitch.
Duh-duh duh-duh-duh Duh-duh duh-duh duh duh Now I'm supposed to go downstairs in the store with all the customers down there, that they all know me, and like this? -BUDD Y: This is tiki time.
-All right.
Duh-duh duh-duh duh duh Duh-duh duh-duh duh duh [ Wolf-whistles .]
MAURO: I'm only doing this 'cause I don't want nobody to say that I reneged on a bet.
[ Laughter .]
MAN: Yeah, look at that.
He's into it.
BUDD Y: Have a cupcake.
WOMAN: Say thank you.
BUDD Y: You're welcome.
M y pleasure.
We were like, "You know what? The customers will get a kick out of it.
We'll laugh a little bit.
" We got such a reaction.
It was so much fun.
It was hilarious.
He's got a Hawaiian shirt on.
You got to lei him.
Come on.
You want to get lei'd.
You know you do.
-You like purple? -Yes.
Goes good with your pink, right? Aloha.
All right.
Come on! She's going to Hawaii too.
M y favorite customer.
Every day she's here.
Every day.
All right? Aloha.
BUDD Y: M y decorators were laughing their butts off.
I mean, they had so much fun with it.
And I was like, "All right.
Let's get back to work.
" 'Cause we really got to get moving on the shower cake for my sister-in-law.
She's kind of a chocoholic.
So we're doing chocolate cake and hazelnut filling and chocolate ganache.
That's ganache! So I'm making progress.
I'm getting things done with this luggage cake.
I got Danny, who filled it, and I iced it.
Now I'm rolling out fondant to knock it out.
And who strolls in? -Hi, guys.
-Hello.
M y wife and my mother-in-law.
-Hey, Bud.
-Hey.
-Hi, Buddy.
-Hi, Mom.
How you are? I'm good.
I'm good.
Everything is good.
We wanted to know how the cake was gonna be for Sunday.
Oh, it's all set.
Vinny came in.
Look.
He picked out an awesome cake.
I thought he was coming in today with us.
BUDD Y: He came in yesterday.
He picked out the luggage cake.
He says he likes that cake but in these colors.
-What is this? -LISA: It's a suitcase.
Oh, no.
I don't want a suitcase.
I want a jewelry box.
No, this cake is not gonna be happening.
I don't like this cake.
I mean, how the hell is it my luck that Vinny comes here yesterday and orders the cake, okay, then my mother-in-law and wife come the next day to change the order? Don't these people communicate? Don't they know that they should have spoke and came to me together? But, Danny, what did Vinny say yesterday? He wants the luggage.
It's not our theme.
Our theme is jewelry.
Yeah, but I already started it.
I understand, but you restart cakes all the time for everybody, and this is for us.
I know you can pull this off.
So we got to change this.
BUDD Y: The last place I want to be is in the doghouse for my wife and my mother-in-law.
So I got to do what I got to do.
All right, Danny.
We got to make another cake.
Thank you, ladies.
GLOR IA: With a big smile, Danny, will you, please? BUDD Y: We are so lucky we didn't get very this far on the cake.
Despite the changes, we can still use the same tiers.
So the theme for this wedding shower is jewelry.
We found this vintage jewelry holder.
And as soon as I saw that, the light clicked off in my head.
I knew exactly what I was gonna do.
The first thing I got to do is put Daniella to make the mannequin out of modeling chocolate.
So Daniella started here about a year ago, and she's got a lot of talent.
She's been doing good.
So I want to challenge her a little bit and see what she can do with a little bit harder project.
DAN I ELLA: I think my skills and strengths as an artist are sculpture.
I went to school for fine arts.
I have a bachelor in fine arts.
I always liked sculpting out of clay when I was in art school.
So now it's been nice because I can use the modeling chocolate.
Or like this.
And I printed six of these.
BUDD Y: Meanwhile, I had Sunshine print me out some edible decals, and I started putting them on the tiers of the cake.
The idea here is that the tiers are jewelry boxes, and on top of them we'll put the jewelry stand.
What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna pipe a royal-icing border in white here and here.
And we're gonna paint it in gold.
Think that'll look nice.
Done.
BUDD Y: Get the buttercream.
Let's put the volcano on top.
So the centerpiece of this tiki cake is gonna be a volcano, the giant, fire-breathing tiki head on top of that.
Now, this thing is huge.
I mean, it's gonna be heavy.
So, what we got to do is build a support structure out of wooden dowels.
And then on that we put pound cake for the base of the volcano.
Personal opinion is we should screw the head on right now.
That's my opinion.
If you ask me.
BUDD Y: You know, the mask looks great.
It's proportionate.
Everything is right.
But I just wasn't happy with the way the thing was wiggling.
Let's put the screws in.
I mean, that thing was probably like 31/2 foot tall.
And that mask was heavy.
And I was afraid that it was gonna go down.
That ain't going no place.
I don't think it's going anywhere.
You just got to keep filling it in.
We added a bunch of cereal treats to fill up the structure.
Then we dirty-iced it and wrapped the volcano with fondant.
All these things keep that head stable.
So I was just like, you know, let it be up to the tiki gods.
If this cake's going down, it's going down.
I'm like, this is the best I can do.
-How is this, "D"? -DAN I ELLA: It's done.
Wow.
You did an excellent job.
I really love it.
The first time I saw Daniella's mannequin, I was floored.
I held the real mannequin next to the cake one, and everybody couldn't even believe how close it was.
I mean, it looked exactly like it.
That was really phenomenal.
Really, really love it.
Give me five.
Thank you.
BUDD Y: She's doing an awesome job.
I mean, this is probably the best work she ever did here.
And I'm really proud of what she's doing.
And I know it's gonna really make the cake.
All right, now, pass the jewels.
So I had Sunshine, Christine, and Liz making me the jewels, and I started sticking them on the cakes.
And the more I put, the better the cake looked.
I added a couple other elements, like a purse and a shoe.
Everything made out of fondant and modeling chocolate.
All right, ladies and gentlemen.
What do you think? -Looks awesome.
-Amazing.
-MAN: Daniella did amazing.
-WOMAN: She so did.
Just great that we were able to pull this off in modeling chocolate and sugar.
I love the jewels.
I love the patterns.
Every little detail really, really looks awesome.
I mean, look at the end result.
And everybody worked hard on it, and together we did an awesome job.
I really -- I'm really happy with the end result.
So they got an actual fire-breather over there? Yeah, he's gonna go in and go [Exhales loudly.]
through the mask.
The biggest challenge with this tiki cake is making this thing spit fire.
I mean, I don't make cakes that spit fire.
Things could melt.
Things could go wrong.
I don't want the fondant to get burnt.
So we're gonna test it out now.
'Cause I don't want to look like no chooch later.
You got the torch? All right.
Let me see.
"Danger -- flammable.
" WOMAN: I'll stay away.
We got to do this as a test run, okay? Children, do not try this at home.
All right.
Lights off.
Let's do it with the lights off.
It's do or die.
When it bring it there, if this thing melts or goes down, I'm in trouble.
-Ready, chef? -MAURO: Ready.
More, more, more.
Oh, man.
DANN Y: Yeah! Yeah, man.
That's it.
Yeah.
-That looked good.
-Ha ha! BUDD Y: So it looks like this thing is gonna be able to breathe fire after all.
All right, let's finish this bamboo.
Now I got to finish this cake and deliver it to the tiki party.
So I'm putting the last finishing touches on this cake.
Around the bottom over here.
I covered the mouth with a little bit of fondant so that it looks like you don't really see the pipe inside.
Is the lava ready? All right.
Let's put the lava on.
And it's starting to come together.
The tiki torches are there.
The mask is there.
-Let it fall.
-WOMAN: It looks good.
BUDD Y: We put embellishments on the mask to look it a little more tribal.
And it really looked awesome.
Maybe we'll lay some bamboo on the top if we have any extra bamboo.
And lastly, I put some bright tropical-colored flowers on it.
It really set the tone and the mood for the cake.
It needed some color, and now we have some color.
At the end, everybody was passing flowers, we were all working together, and the cake was coming awesome.
WOMAN: Buddy, it's go time.
Come on.
You know it.
It's time to do this.
Do we have any more tiger lilies? Very tropicale.
End result was killer.
We nailed it.
All right.
I think he's gonna love it.
Come over and check it out.
Everything looks awesome.
I like the tiki torches.
I feel good.
I can't wait tonight to see this thing spit fire.
WOMAN: I definitely came together.
BUDD Y: I think it looks awesome.
All right, everybody put their hands in for the tiki.
One, two, three.
-Tiki! -Tiki! [ Cheering .]
-Okay.
-We're off.
-Wait.
-You guys good? -Yeah, I'm good.
-Let's go.
[ Cheering .]
Cool! Hey, Luis.
How are you? Happy birthday.
Happy birthday.
I couldn't be happier for you.
We make your birthday cake every year.
This one, I think, is tops, bud.
I think this one really looks awesome.
And I'm thinking to myself, "These people don't even know what they got coming for them.
They think that they like the cake now? Can you imagine when it spits fire?" All right, ladies and gentlemen.
The show is about to begin.
Okay, this cake does more than just have the tiki torches.
So I find the fire-breather.
He comes over.
This guy looks like a fire-breather.
I'm like, "Dude, you're loco.
You're a little crazy.
" M y friend.
[ Cheering .]
Now you're talking.
[ Cheering .]
[ Laughs .]
[ Cheering .]
Everybody went wild.
I mean, what a reaction! Whoo! BUDD Y: I thought I was in Hollywood watching this thing breathe fire.
It looked awesome.
[ Cheering .]
This tiki cake was a huge success.
I am happy.
Happy birthday to Luis.
M y pleasure.
-Mangia.
-Thank you, thank you.
Enjoy your night.
Thank you guys so much.
-LU IS: I appreciate it.
-Come on, team.
An Italian tradition is we throw crazy-big, insane weddings.
We throw crazy-big, insane bridal showers.
-Surprise! -Surprise! BUDD Y: So today is the day of Daniela's shower.
Everybody's at the shower.
I mean, you got my whole family.
You got my mom, my sisters, all my cousins.
M y wife made a beautiful speech.
So let's raise our glasses and toast Daniela and Vinny on their journey together on a lifetime of love and happiness.
We love you.
Salute.
BUDD Y: And after that, that was my cue to bring in the cake.
LISA: Especially made for you.
BUDD Y: It totally matched everything in the room.
It looked awesome.
People could not believe that it was all edible.
I couldn't be happier for you.
I love you.
-Thanks, cuz.
-Thank you.
[ Cheering .]
BUDD Y: Listen, at the end of day, we cut the cake.
It was my sister-in-law's favorite.
This is really good.
I love it.
It's beautiful.
I can't believe the dress is edible.
I mean, it's beautiful.
And the detail work on it is just amazing.
To see her happy, to make family happy, that's what life's all about.
-Congratulations.
-Thank you.
Thank you so much.
M y pleasure.