Cake Boss (2009) s01e03 Episode Script
Bunny, Birthday, and Burnt Food
BUDD Y: On this episode of "Cake Boss" Happy Easter from Carlo's.
BUDD Y: It's Easter.
Things are going nuts.
WOMAN: We have a big Easter-egg hunt on Saturday for the Hoboken Family Alliance.
This Saturday? I look at the back of this cake, and my heart just drops.
I just can't even believe this happened.
What am I gonna do? Yeah, but concentrate on what? BUDD Y: Is all the bread like that? 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 It's Easter week at Carlo's Bakery, which means it's gonna be nuts.
On an average week at Carlo's, we could have 200 to 300 people in the store per day.
Easter week, it could be 2, 000, 3, 000.
I mean, that's nuts.
MAURO: Getting done.
BUDD Y: This is where you make your money.
You know, when it's the slow times in January, these are weeks that add up for it.
So if you don't make your money this week, you don't make it.
And everything just has to go a certain way or we're in big trouble.
-Is everybody around? -Yep.
All right.
Easter week.
Big, big, big week.
It's go time.
We got to do what we got to do to make this happen, okay? And, Buddy, whosever making these cupcakes -- This is too much! It's heavy, and it's falls off.
-Mauro, Frankie, it's too much! -But they are top-heavy.
It's too heavy.
Look at them.
This poor cupcake don't stand a chance.
It's too heavy.
It looks terrible.
It doesn't taste good.
It doesn't look good.
And it's the sloppiest thing I've ever seen.
They're not finished.
This happens to be delicious and my favorite, and you can't even enjoy them! Listen, listen.
All right? When you have a problem, you tell me.
All right, well, I told Mauro and I told I will talk to them, and I will settle this.
But you got to tell me.
You got to be nice.
You don't have to be a bitch.
-But it's every time! -You still tell me! Listen, don't yell at me! -Mary.
Mary! -It's every week.
-And I did go and tell them.
-Mary, go downstairs.
-No, I did tell them.
-Mary.
Go downstairs.
I'm the one who has to sell them, and they suck.
Go downstairs.
-You're saying how busy you are.
-Go downstairs, Mary! Go downstairs, Mary! It's Easter.
Things are going nuts.
And then I get a call.
Hi.
How you doing? I'm Buddy.
"Buddy, there's a consultation here.
They want to talk to you for minute.
" We're here -- It's short, short notice.
We have a big Easter-egg hunt on Saturday for the Hoboken Family Alliance.
-This Saturday? -Yes.
We thought it would be really great if we could get somebody in town to help us do something really big and special.
We know you do a lot of stuff in town, so we thought we'd give it a shot.
I know.
It's just that it's -- You know, it's Easter week.
I mean, it's really it's a great cause, and the kids would really be excited and would really love -- I love kids.
I got kids of my own, you know? -So we know you're busy.
-Oh, God.
So it's basically a good cause, and I can't say no.
Is that what you're telling me? -lf you can squeeze it in.
-Yeah, of course.
You know, anything for the community.
All right.
Thank you so much.
It was a pleasure meeting you.
Have a great day.
I'm like, all right, I'll do an Easter bunny, and then I'll do an Easter basket.
And I'll make, like, a little grass scene, and I'll stick some Easter eggs around it.
Real festive.
Real Easter-egg hunt.
And we'll write "Happy Easter" across it.
I think it'll be awesome.
So I told Daniella to make the lip part out of modeling chocolate, and she was going on that.
So I got Mauro and Sunshine doing the Easter eggs out of fondant and royal icing.
And then I got Remy making the base of the cake.
This is what the rabbit and eggs are gonna sit on.
I decided to go with vanilla sponge cake layered with chocolate fudge in between.
We're talking about kids here.
You can't go wrong with vanilla and chocolate.
Everybody's pitching in, and we're cranking along.
We're trying to get this done.
Carlo's Bakery opened in 1910, okay? It's 2009.
99 Easters we've done.
And every Easter, we make a special Italian Easter bread called casatelli.
It's a sweet bread.
It's got Easter eggs baked right into it.
So the eggs are basically hard-boiled beforehand.
Then we put them into the dough.
Some people dye them, but we keep it old-school.
We just do them white.
We add some color with some sugar and sprinkles.
You know, the eggs and the bread, that goes back to the old country.
It's like a tradition that you have to have that, and it's got to be right.
And one of my favorites.
If I don't feel like I put my hands on some of this stuff, doesn't feel like it's the holiday.
Just doesn't feel right.
You get everything in the oven, and I'm excited to go upstairs because I want to see where the progress is.
You don't got these cakes filled yet? MAURO: We're doing what we're doing.
We haven't stopped for two minutes.
We're working.
I-I-I just Downstairs -- We're downstairs.
We're working like dogs, okay? You got -- Sal's, like, 100 years old, and he's moving like a maniac.
And I come up here, and people are just working at a different pace, okay? Come on, we got to move it a little bit.
We got to go.
We got things to do.
We got to finish what we got to finish because there is no tomorrow.
I'm rolling bread like it's the last day of my life, like I'm going to the electric chair.
And I come up here, and it's like a cake walk.
It's Easter week.
You got to spit fire.
You got to, you know, have lightning bolts coming out of your butt.
I want everybody doing what they got to do! I'm not playing with you! I want to see people moving! Well, listen, I don't want to sell anything that looks burnt.
JOEY: If you don't like them, don't sell them.
LISA: To me, I don't think this looks perfect.
MARY: Buddy! Do you think that there's a difference the way stuff looks? I mean, what do you think? BUDD Y: I go downstairs, and my sisters are yelling at my brother-in-law Joey about the way the Easter bread was baked.
If I was going to the store and buying it, I wouldn't pick the dark one.
All right, I-I-I -- Listen! You're right, all right? That part, you're right.
It's not burnt, but it doesn't look right.
You know, the guys downstairs have been doing this a long time.
So my sisters are coming and yell at them, they take it to offense.
Is all the bread like that? JOEY: You guys want a thousand things.
You don't understand.
You have to wait for the ovens.
BUDD Y: And then it becomes my problem, and then I got to get aggravated.
And I don't want to get aggravated.
I know! You're right! I'm not saying that you're wrong! But I don't want to hear them! I understand! This bunny cake is for tomorrow, and they haven't even started sculpting the bunny's body yet.
And I'm like, "Oh, God.
What am I gonna do?" Mauro, Remy -- Those are my go-to guys.
When I got to do something, those are the guys I look to.
And without them, I can't get nothing done.
I call them over.
We're gonna sculpt the bunny.
So we'll cut those four pieces of sponge like this.
We'll stack them.
Then you can shape them from there.
BUDD Y: Now, the base of this bunny cake is completely edible, and that's what the kids are really gonna eat.
The bunny's body will be mostly edible, with some exceptions for the support system.
Whenever you make a figure standing up, you need a support system.
So we're gonna cut holes out so that the cakes are like rings and slide down the doweling rods, so you have legs.
Then you screw a board down, which would be his waist.
Buttercream frosting in between acts just like glue, and it holds everything together.
Then you got his body, then you screw a board down, and then you got his head.
That bunny was screwed and glued, and he wasn't going nowhere.
He jiggles, but he ain't going anywhere.
So, what's the plan for Easter? Who's cooking? I think since it's Bart's birthday, I want to try and do Easter dinner.
BUDD Y: So, this year, for Easter, Grace wanted to cook Easter dinner, if you can believe that.
Grace has never cooked a holiday meal in her life.
I can cook.
I never did it.
I went to your house last week.
I go, "Damn! What, did you get a new stove?" She says, "No, we just never use it.
" It should be amusing.
I might have to eat before I go, but I'm looking forward to it.
I think youse are gonna be pleasantly surprised.
-JOEY: We'll see Sunday.
-We will see.
At least the dessert will be good, 'cause I know where that's coming from.
Every year around this time, we got three birthdays.
We got Grace and Joey's daughter, Bartolina, my niece.
We got my nephew, Buddy Castano.
He's Mauro and Madeline's kid.
And then we got Mama.
This year, all three of them are falling in Easter week.
So now I got three more specialty cakes to do.
I don't know what to do with myself.
Bartolina's cake -- She wanted zebra print.
I had a vision -- boom, we'll do the bottom tier zebra, pink around the bottom, pink tier on top.
" 13" on top.
Very sparkly.
Maybe even a bow around it.
TON I: How you do that, chef? How you do that? BUDD Y: You know, a little tag -- "Happy Birthday, Bartolina.
" Stars coming out of it.
I know this cake's gonna come awesome.
MAURO: Buttons here.
They go one here, one here.
You're a pretty big gamer, Mario.
So for Buddy Castano, I'm like, "Hey, Mauro.
What do you think your son, Buddy, is into?" And he's like, "Oh, all he does is play these gaming systems.
" I'm like, "Good.
We're gonna make him a gaming cake.
We're gonna make it the Buddy Box.
" Right in the middle, you said, chef? MAURO: Yes, sir.
BUDD Y: So the concept behind the Buddy Box is to make the bottom console out of cake, and we're gonna cover it in black fondant.
Then we're gonna make a remote control out of modeling chocolate.
And we're gonna make the headset out of modeling chocolate.
The steamer melts the fondant just a tiny bit, which helps things stick and gives it a nice, shiny finish.
I knew that putting "Buddy Box" on it, he would go nuts.
M y mother's favorite flower is tulips.
I'm like, how about a flowerpot cake with all tulips in it? How's that? BUDD Y: Looks like a pot.
We sculpted the clay pot out of cake.
And then I used chocolate crunchies in it to look like dirt.
All those flowers are made out of gum paste, and they're all edible.
I know my mother, and I knew she was gonna love that cake.
I'm back.
You know, it's a crazy Easter week.
We're busy.
Sometimes you need a little bit of fun.
You need a little bit of boost.
And I says, " I'm gonna put Frankie outside in a bunny costume, passing out brownies.
" It was hard to find a costume, but I found one.
-We even got some vegetables.
-[ Laughs .]
Cuzino.
-FRANKI E: What? -Come over here.
FRANKI E: Oh, my God.
Stop breaking my balls.
I'm trying to work here.
What do you need? Go in the bathroom and put this on.
What do you want me to do with this? All right, and then when you're done, you're gonna hand out samples outside dressed as the bunny, as the Easter Bunny.
I ain't putting that on.
I'll wear the bow tie.
I'll wear the ears.
You got to put the bunny outfit on.
I ain't putting the bunny outfit on.
You can't go with your white thing on.
So I had to tell him it was for charity.
Come on, you got to take one for the team, cuzino! I've taken plenty for the team! Cuzino! For charity! It's for charity! -MAURO: It's for the kids.
-It's for kids.
If it's for kids, I'll do it! If it's for your personal amusement and to break my balls, I ain't doing it! You think I would do that to you? No, not you! It's for kids! Put the costume on! -You swear it's for kids? -It's for kids! I think that'll be hilarious, just seeing him dressed up as the Easter Bunny.
FRANKI E: Somebody's gonna pay for this.
-[ Laughter .]
-Somebody's gonna pay for this! Hey, it's for kids.
It's for kids! BUDD Y: "Happy Easter, Carlo's.
" Remember.
[ Laughter .]
How's it going, buddy? Come on.
Happy Easter from Carlo's.
[ Laughter .]
And it was so funny seeing Frankie dressed up as the Easter Bunny, giving out samples, saying "Happy Easter.
" If my father could only see me now.
Would you like a brownie, sir? Enjoy.
Help yourself.
We got to go.
We got to bang this stuff out.
We got to go back on the Easter eggs.
We got to set up for the store.
It's go time, baby.
It's go time.
So me and Remy go to town piping on this Easter Bunny.
We're using royal icing because it dries stiff.
That'll make M r.
Bunny look nice and furry.
So here's the problem.
We got to work fast because the royal icing takes a while to dry.
But the longer this sits out, the warmer the buttercream on the inside gets, and it doesn't hold together as well.
But you know what, Remy? It's already starting to get hard.
All right, let's finish.
WOMAN: Who's next? I'm making baked macaroni, okay? Never made baked macaroni in my life.
M y brothers and sisters are always teasing me about my cooking abilities.
And to a certain extent, I guess they're right.
But because it was Bart's birthday, I knew it was my turn.
I had to step up to the plate and cook Easter dinner for my family, which was gonna be a crazy thing.
And don't make fun of me, okay? You better not cook the pasta all the way.
Al dente.
Wait, I have to cook the pasta first? It's baked macaroni.
It cooks in the oven, no? No, you have to boil it first.
I've never cooked for 30 people in my life.
It's a lot harder than I thought it would be.
I am definitely in over my head.
Over my head.
Everyone eat before they go.
BUDD Y: Bunny time, baby.
It's bunny time.
While I'm doing this cake, it's always figuring things out, you know? You don't make bunny cakes every week.
They look good.
Maybe a little bigger, if anything.
I got Remy making the bunny ears and arms out of modeling chocolate.
They're molded around chopsticks and dipped into coconut.
Danny's making a basket out of pound cake.
We're gonna cover it with a basket weave made out of fondant.
-That's a girl? -Yeah, we made it a girl.
Give me that cake.
The basket.
I'm gonna finish it off with a bow tie and airbrush some pink food coloring.
I'm gonna put some jelly beans, some Easter eggs.
We're gonna use some pastel colors.
You know, it's got to feel very Eastery.
Somebody cut me "Happy Easter.
" At the end of the day, I called my team over, and we looked at it, and we loved it.
I mean, it was really, really an awesome cake.
-WOMAN: It's beautiful.
-BUDD Y: Everybody likes it? -Beautiful.
-MAN: It says Easter.
BUDD Y: All right, we got to get it in the fridge right away because this bunny's been sitting out way too long, and he needs to get hard.
Let's go.
Bye, bunny.
Go low, go low.
Put it in your hands.
Easy, easy, easy, easy.
There's nothing as freaky as seeing one of your cakes wobble like that.
Watch the arm.
Hold that arm.
Hold the arm.
Don't wheel.
Just go -- No, no, no, no.
Put it where it's got to go.
Mauro, stay with the arm.
I mean, that bunny in the fridge tonight -- I don't know if I'm gonna get any sleep.
I'm really worried about that bunny.
I just hope that he makes it.
Happy Easter.
BUDD Y: It's Easter, and the store is packed.
I mean, you know, jam-packed.
Take care.
Happy Easter.
Happy Easter.
Take care.
And I see a lot of my old-timers, a lot of my friends.
A lot of people that I haven't seen in a long time.
And it makes everything so worth it.
-Bye-bye.
-Okay.
BUDD Y: So it's the morning of the Easter-egg hunt, and I got to deliver this cake.
Come on, Danny.
Let's go.
Help me grab the cake.
Let's go.
I open the refrigerator.
I go in.
I look at the back of this cake, and my heart just drops.
Oh [bleep.]
STRETCH: Oh, my gosh.
Ridiculous.
The bunny's fur fell off.
STRETCH: I'm sorry.
BUDD Y: The royal icing in the refrigerator just doesn't dry properly.
We're gonna pick it up.
What am I gonna do? That looks like it peeled right off.
And I realize I got to scrape the whole bunny down, basically.
I got to take the eyes off, take the face off, scrape the bunny down, and basically start over again.
I just can't even believe this happened.
Give me some shaved coconut now.
Remy, stop that.
Come over here.
They're expecting me with this cake before the Easter-egg hunt.
I got to be there.
GRACE: So, today is the big day -- Easter -- and I have to cook dinner for 30 people.
And cooking is not my thing.
I just looked around, and I didn't know where to begin or what to do.
I was running out of counter space.
I was running out of oven space.
-[ Alarm beeping .]
-The fire alarms went off.
I'm, like, trying to flag out the smoke.
M y family was coming, and nothing was ready.
The clock is ticking.
I got to get this cake done.
I don't want to disappoint these kids.
I get everybody together, everybody working on the cake, and we banged it out.
I mean, that only took 10 minutes.
That was pretty amazing.
Need some coconut to go, guys.
Come on.
Let's pack this up! We stick the cake in the truck.
Slide it in, Danny.
Straight.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I close the lid.
To deliver this cake to the Easter-egg hunt, I drove very, very carefully.
You know, I did not want to hit no bumps.
I wanted a direct route.
I didn't want to take any chances.
I really didn't want to disappoint these kids.
We get to the park.
You know, we're just in the nick of time.
[ Cheering .]
As soon as we got there, alls I heard was, "Wow!" All the kids were going nuts.
I mean, it was -- It was such a touching moment.
It just made everything so worth what I do.
And I was just happy to be there.
-Thank you! -Thank you! Thank you, kids.
Happy Easter.
Aah! I got to go home.
I got to get changed.
I got to get over to Grace's because everybody's waiting to have Easter dinner.
It's a little smoky in here.
GRACE: Yeah, we had a couple fires, for real.
Hello! Happy Easter! So, you know, I walk into the kitchen, and I could see that Grace is way in over her head.
How we doing, Grace? You need some help? Let your brother help you a little.
The ham should be done.
How long has that been in? M y family and me -- We might fight, we might argue.
But the bottom line is, we love each other.
We're family.
GRACE: All right, everyone sit down.
May God bless us.
Another Easter together.
Many more in the future.
-Salute.
-Salute.
And I'll never do it again! -Hallelujah.
-Hallelujah.
-[ Laughter .]
-MARY: Good job.
BUDD Y: Dinner wasn't horrible.
Who wants pasta? Her baked macaroni was dry like her elbows.
-I have three trays of this.
-MARY: It's delicious.
BUDD Y: I was proud that she made the effort and she tried.
So, after we finished Grace's great meal, I'm like, "This is the perfect time.
Let me go grab the birthday cakes.
" MAMA: Oh, tulips! BUDD Y: And everybody's just in awe.
MAMA: Oh, thank you! BUDD Y: Happy birthday.
They were totally floored by it.
They loved it.
Everybody was, you know, going crazy.
I want the three of youse to go blow out your candles.
Happy birthday, everybody.
One, two, three! Go! [ Cheering .]
At the end of the week, it was a great Easter, it was a great birthday, it was a great time.
I love my family, I love everybody, and I'm waiting for next year.
-Eat the dirt.
-It's good.
[ Laughs .]
BUDD Y: It's Easter.
Things are going nuts.
WOMAN: We have a big Easter-egg hunt on Saturday for the Hoboken Family Alliance.
This Saturday? I look at the back of this cake, and my heart just drops.
I just can't even believe this happened.
What am I gonna do? Yeah, but concentrate on what? BUDD Y: Is all the bread like that? 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 It's Easter week at Carlo's Bakery, which means it's gonna be nuts.
On an average week at Carlo's, we could have 200 to 300 people in the store per day.
Easter week, it could be 2, 000, 3, 000.
I mean, that's nuts.
MAURO: Getting done.
BUDD Y: This is where you make your money.
You know, when it's the slow times in January, these are weeks that add up for it.
So if you don't make your money this week, you don't make it.
And everything just has to go a certain way or we're in big trouble.
-Is everybody around? -Yep.
All right.
Easter week.
Big, big, big week.
It's go time.
We got to do what we got to do to make this happen, okay? And, Buddy, whosever making these cupcakes -- This is too much! It's heavy, and it's falls off.
-Mauro, Frankie, it's too much! -But they are top-heavy.
It's too heavy.
Look at them.
This poor cupcake don't stand a chance.
It's too heavy.
It looks terrible.
It doesn't taste good.
It doesn't look good.
And it's the sloppiest thing I've ever seen.
They're not finished.
This happens to be delicious and my favorite, and you can't even enjoy them! Listen, listen.
All right? When you have a problem, you tell me.
All right, well, I told Mauro and I told I will talk to them, and I will settle this.
But you got to tell me.
You got to be nice.
You don't have to be a bitch.
-But it's every time! -You still tell me! Listen, don't yell at me! -Mary.
Mary! -It's every week.
-And I did go and tell them.
-Mary, go downstairs.
-No, I did tell them.
-Mary.
Go downstairs.
I'm the one who has to sell them, and they suck.
Go downstairs.
-You're saying how busy you are.
-Go downstairs, Mary! Go downstairs, Mary! It's Easter.
Things are going nuts.
And then I get a call.
Hi.
How you doing? I'm Buddy.
"Buddy, there's a consultation here.
They want to talk to you for minute.
" We're here -- It's short, short notice.
We have a big Easter-egg hunt on Saturday for the Hoboken Family Alliance.
-This Saturday? -Yes.
We thought it would be really great if we could get somebody in town to help us do something really big and special.
We know you do a lot of stuff in town, so we thought we'd give it a shot.
I know.
It's just that it's -- You know, it's Easter week.
I mean, it's really it's a great cause, and the kids would really be excited and would really love -- I love kids.
I got kids of my own, you know? -So we know you're busy.
-Oh, God.
So it's basically a good cause, and I can't say no.
Is that what you're telling me? -lf you can squeeze it in.
-Yeah, of course.
You know, anything for the community.
All right.
Thank you so much.
It was a pleasure meeting you.
Have a great day.
I'm like, all right, I'll do an Easter bunny, and then I'll do an Easter basket.
And I'll make, like, a little grass scene, and I'll stick some Easter eggs around it.
Real festive.
Real Easter-egg hunt.
And we'll write "Happy Easter" across it.
I think it'll be awesome.
So I told Daniella to make the lip part out of modeling chocolate, and she was going on that.
So I got Mauro and Sunshine doing the Easter eggs out of fondant and royal icing.
And then I got Remy making the base of the cake.
This is what the rabbit and eggs are gonna sit on.
I decided to go with vanilla sponge cake layered with chocolate fudge in between.
We're talking about kids here.
You can't go wrong with vanilla and chocolate.
Everybody's pitching in, and we're cranking along.
We're trying to get this done.
Carlo's Bakery opened in 1910, okay? It's 2009.
99 Easters we've done.
And every Easter, we make a special Italian Easter bread called casatelli.
It's a sweet bread.
It's got Easter eggs baked right into it.
So the eggs are basically hard-boiled beforehand.
Then we put them into the dough.
Some people dye them, but we keep it old-school.
We just do them white.
We add some color with some sugar and sprinkles.
You know, the eggs and the bread, that goes back to the old country.
It's like a tradition that you have to have that, and it's got to be right.
And one of my favorites.
If I don't feel like I put my hands on some of this stuff, doesn't feel like it's the holiday.
Just doesn't feel right.
You get everything in the oven, and I'm excited to go upstairs because I want to see where the progress is.
You don't got these cakes filled yet? MAURO: We're doing what we're doing.
We haven't stopped for two minutes.
We're working.
I-I-I just Downstairs -- We're downstairs.
We're working like dogs, okay? You got -- Sal's, like, 100 years old, and he's moving like a maniac.
And I come up here, and people are just working at a different pace, okay? Come on, we got to move it a little bit.
We got to go.
We got things to do.
We got to finish what we got to finish because there is no tomorrow.
I'm rolling bread like it's the last day of my life, like I'm going to the electric chair.
And I come up here, and it's like a cake walk.
It's Easter week.
You got to spit fire.
You got to, you know, have lightning bolts coming out of your butt.
I want everybody doing what they got to do! I'm not playing with you! I want to see people moving! Well, listen, I don't want to sell anything that looks burnt.
JOEY: If you don't like them, don't sell them.
LISA: To me, I don't think this looks perfect.
MARY: Buddy! Do you think that there's a difference the way stuff looks? I mean, what do you think? BUDD Y: I go downstairs, and my sisters are yelling at my brother-in-law Joey about the way the Easter bread was baked.
If I was going to the store and buying it, I wouldn't pick the dark one.
All right, I-I-I -- Listen! You're right, all right? That part, you're right.
It's not burnt, but it doesn't look right.
You know, the guys downstairs have been doing this a long time.
So my sisters are coming and yell at them, they take it to offense.
Is all the bread like that? JOEY: You guys want a thousand things.
You don't understand.
You have to wait for the ovens.
BUDD Y: And then it becomes my problem, and then I got to get aggravated.
And I don't want to get aggravated.
I know! You're right! I'm not saying that you're wrong! But I don't want to hear them! I understand! This bunny cake is for tomorrow, and they haven't even started sculpting the bunny's body yet.
And I'm like, "Oh, God.
What am I gonna do?" Mauro, Remy -- Those are my go-to guys.
When I got to do something, those are the guys I look to.
And without them, I can't get nothing done.
I call them over.
We're gonna sculpt the bunny.
So we'll cut those four pieces of sponge like this.
We'll stack them.
Then you can shape them from there.
BUDD Y: Now, the base of this bunny cake is completely edible, and that's what the kids are really gonna eat.
The bunny's body will be mostly edible, with some exceptions for the support system.
Whenever you make a figure standing up, you need a support system.
So we're gonna cut holes out so that the cakes are like rings and slide down the doweling rods, so you have legs.
Then you screw a board down, which would be his waist.
Buttercream frosting in between acts just like glue, and it holds everything together.
Then you got his body, then you screw a board down, and then you got his head.
That bunny was screwed and glued, and he wasn't going nowhere.
He jiggles, but he ain't going anywhere.
So, what's the plan for Easter? Who's cooking? I think since it's Bart's birthday, I want to try and do Easter dinner.
BUDD Y: So, this year, for Easter, Grace wanted to cook Easter dinner, if you can believe that.
Grace has never cooked a holiday meal in her life.
I can cook.
I never did it.
I went to your house last week.
I go, "Damn! What, did you get a new stove?" She says, "No, we just never use it.
" It should be amusing.
I might have to eat before I go, but I'm looking forward to it.
I think youse are gonna be pleasantly surprised.
-JOEY: We'll see Sunday.
-We will see.
At least the dessert will be good, 'cause I know where that's coming from.
Every year around this time, we got three birthdays.
We got Grace and Joey's daughter, Bartolina, my niece.
We got my nephew, Buddy Castano.
He's Mauro and Madeline's kid.
And then we got Mama.
This year, all three of them are falling in Easter week.
So now I got three more specialty cakes to do.
I don't know what to do with myself.
Bartolina's cake -- She wanted zebra print.
I had a vision -- boom, we'll do the bottom tier zebra, pink around the bottom, pink tier on top.
" 13" on top.
Very sparkly.
Maybe even a bow around it.
TON I: How you do that, chef? How you do that? BUDD Y: You know, a little tag -- "Happy Birthday, Bartolina.
" Stars coming out of it.
I know this cake's gonna come awesome.
MAURO: Buttons here.
They go one here, one here.
You're a pretty big gamer, Mario.
So for Buddy Castano, I'm like, "Hey, Mauro.
What do you think your son, Buddy, is into?" And he's like, "Oh, all he does is play these gaming systems.
" I'm like, "Good.
We're gonna make him a gaming cake.
We're gonna make it the Buddy Box.
" Right in the middle, you said, chef? MAURO: Yes, sir.
BUDD Y: So the concept behind the Buddy Box is to make the bottom console out of cake, and we're gonna cover it in black fondant.
Then we're gonna make a remote control out of modeling chocolate.
And we're gonna make the headset out of modeling chocolate.
The steamer melts the fondant just a tiny bit, which helps things stick and gives it a nice, shiny finish.
I knew that putting "Buddy Box" on it, he would go nuts.
M y mother's favorite flower is tulips.
I'm like, how about a flowerpot cake with all tulips in it? How's that? BUDD Y: Looks like a pot.
We sculpted the clay pot out of cake.
And then I used chocolate crunchies in it to look like dirt.
All those flowers are made out of gum paste, and they're all edible.
I know my mother, and I knew she was gonna love that cake.
I'm back.
You know, it's a crazy Easter week.
We're busy.
Sometimes you need a little bit of fun.
You need a little bit of boost.
And I says, " I'm gonna put Frankie outside in a bunny costume, passing out brownies.
" It was hard to find a costume, but I found one.
-We even got some vegetables.
-[ Laughs .]
Cuzino.
-FRANKI E: What? -Come over here.
FRANKI E: Oh, my God.
Stop breaking my balls.
I'm trying to work here.
What do you need? Go in the bathroom and put this on.
What do you want me to do with this? All right, and then when you're done, you're gonna hand out samples outside dressed as the bunny, as the Easter Bunny.
I ain't putting that on.
I'll wear the bow tie.
I'll wear the ears.
You got to put the bunny outfit on.
I ain't putting the bunny outfit on.
You can't go with your white thing on.
So I had to tell him it was for charity.
Come on, you got to take one for the team, cuzino! I've taken plenty for the team! Cuzino! For charity! It's for charity! -MAURO: It's for the kids.
-It's for kids.
If it's for kids, I'll do it! If it's for your personal amusement and to break my balls, I ain't doing it! You think I would do that to you? No, not you! It's for kids! Put the costume on! -You swear it's for kids? -It's for kids! I think that'll be hilarious, just seeing him dressed up as the Easter Bunny.
FRANKI E: Somebody's gonna pay for this.
-[ Laughter .]
-Somebody's gonna pay for this! Hey, it's for kids.
It's for kids! BUDD Y: "Happy Easter, Carlo's.
" Remember.
[ Laughter .]
How's it going, buddy? Come on.
Happy Easter from Carlo's.
[ Laughter .]
And it was so funny seeing Frankie dressed up as the Easter Bunny, giving out samples, saying "Happy Easter.
" If my father could only see me now.
Would you like a brownie, sir? Enjoy.
Help yourself.
We got to go.
We got to bang this stuff out.
We got to go back on the Easter eggs.
We got to set up for the store.
It's go time, baby.
It's go time.
So me and Remy go to town piping on this Easter Bunny.
We're using royal icing because it dries stiff.
That'll make M r.
Bunny look nice and furry.
So here's the problem.
We got to work fast because the royal icing takes a while to dry.
But the longer this sits out, the warmer the buttercream on the inside gets, and it doesn't hold together as well.
But you know what, Remy? It's already starting to get hard.
All right, let's finish.
WOMAN: Who's next? I'm making baked macaroni, okay? Never made baked macaroni in my life.
M y brothers and sisters are always teasing me about my cooking abilities.
And to a certain extent, I guess they're right.
But because it was Bart's birthday, I knew it was my turn.
I had to step up to the plate and cook Easter dinner for my family, which was gonna be a crazy thing.
And don't make fun of me, okay? You better not cook the pasta all the way.
Al dente.
Wait, I have to cook the pasta first? It's baked macaroni.
It cooks in the oven, no? No, you have to boil it first.
I've never cooked for 30 people in my life.
It's a lot harder than I thought it would be.
I am definitely in over my head.
Over my head.
Everyone eat before they go.
BUDD Y: Bunny time, baby.
It's bunny time.
While I'm doing this cake, it's always figuring things out, you know? You don't make bunny cakes every week.
They look good.
Maybe a little bigger, if anything.
I got Remy making the bunny ears and arms out of modeling chocolate.
They're molded around chopsticks and dipped into coconut.
Danny's making a basket out of pound cake.
We're gonna cover it with a basket weave made out of fondant.
-That's a girl? -Yeah, we made it a girl.
Give me that cake.
The basket.
I'm gonna finish it off with a bow tie and airbrush some pink food coloring.
I'm gonna put some jelly beans, some Easter eggs.
We're gonna use some pastel colors.
You know, it's got to feel very Eastery.
Somebody cut me "Happy Easter.
" At the end of the day, I called my team over, and we looked at it, and we loved it.
I mean, it was really, really an awesome cake.
-WOMAN: It's beautiful.
-BUDD Y: Everybody likes it? -Beautiful.
-MAN: It says Easter.
BUDD Y: All right, we got to get it in the fridge right away because this bunny's been sitting out way too long, and he needs to get hard.
Let's go.
Bye, bunny.
Go low, go low.
Put it in your hands.
Easy, easy, easy, easy.
There's nothing as freaky as seeing one of your cakes wobble like that.
Watch the arm.
Hold that arm.
Hold the arm.
Don't wheel.
Just go -- No, no, no, no.
Put it where it's got to go.
Mauro, stay with the arm.
I mean, that bunny in the fridge tonight -- I don't know if I'm gonna get any sleep.
I'm really worried about that bunny.
I just hope that he makes it.
Happy Easter.
BUDD Y: It's Easter, and the store is packed.
I mean, you know, jam-packed.
Take care.
Happy Easter.
Happy Easter.
Take care.
And I see a lot of my old-timers, a lot of my friends.
A lot of people that I haven't seen in a long time.
And it makes everything so worth it.
-Bye-bye.
-Okay.
BUDD Y: So it's the morning of the Easter-egg hunt, and I got to deliver this cake.
Come on, Danny.
Let's go.
Help me grab the cake.
Let's go.
I open the refrigerator.
I go in.
I look at the back of this cake, and my heart just drops.
Oh [bleep.]
STRETCH: Oh, my gosh.
Ridiculous.
The bunny's fur fell off.
STRETCH: I'm sorry.
BUDD Y: The royal icing in the refrigerator just doesn't dry properly.
We're gonna pick it up.
What am I gonna do? That looks like it peeled right off.
And I realize I got to scrape the whole bunny down, basically.
I got to take the eyes off, take the face off, scrape the bunny down, and basically start over again.
I just can't even believe this happened.
Give me some shaved coconut now.
Remy, stop that.
Come over here.
They're expecting me with this cake before the Easter-egg hunt.
I got to be there.
GRACE: So, today is the big day -- Easter -- and I have to cook dinner for 30 people.
And cooking is not my thing.
I just looked around, and I didn't know where to begin or what to do.
I was running out of counter space.
I was running out of oven space.
-[ Alarm beeping .]
-The fire alarms went off.
I'm, like, trying to flag out the smoke.
M y family was coming, and nothing was ready.
The clock is ticking.
I got to get this cake done.
I don't want to disappoint these kids.
I get everybody together, everybody working on the cake, and we banged it out.
I mean, that only took 10 minutes.
That was pretty amazing.
Need some coconut to go, guys.
Come on.
Let's pack this up! We stick the cake in the truck.
Slide it in, Danny.
Straight.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I close the lid.
To deliver this cake to the Easter-egg hunt, I drove very, very carefully.
You know, I did not want to hit no bumps.
I wanted a direct route.
I didn't want to take any chances.
I really didn't want to disappoint these kids.
We get to the park.
You know, we're just in the nick of time.
[ Cheering .]
As soon as we got there, alls I heard was, "Wow!" All the kids were going nuts.
I mean, it was -- It was such a touching moment.
It just made everything so worth what I do.
And I was just happy to be there.
-Thank you! -Thank you! Thank you, kids.
Happy Easter.
Aah! I got to go home.
I got to get changed.
I got to get over to Grace's because everybody's waiting to have Easter dinner.
It's a little smoky in here.
GRACE: Yeah, we had a couple fires, for real.
Hello! Happy Easter! So, you know, I walk into the kitchen, and I could see that Grace is way in over her head.
How we doing, Grace? You need some help? Let your brother help you a little.
The ham should be done.
How long has that been in? M y family and me -- We might fight, we might argue.
But the bottom line is, we love each other.
We're family.
GRACE: All right, everyone sit down.
May God bless us.
Another Easter together.
Many more in the future.
-Salute.
-Salute.
And I'll never do it again! -Hallelujah.
-Hallelujah.
-[ Laughter .]
-MARY: Good job.
BUDD Y: Dinner wasn't horrible.
Who wants pasta? Her baked macaroni was dry like her elbows.
-I have three trays of this.
-MARY: It's delicious.
BUDD Y: I was proud that she made the effort and she tried.
So, after we finished Grace's great meal, I'm like, "This is the perfect time.
Let me go grab the birthday cakes.
" MAMA: Oh, tulips! BUDD Y: And everybody's just in awe.
MAMA: Oh, thank you! BUDD Y: Happy birthday.
They were totally floored by it.
They loved it.
Everybody was, you know, going crazy.
I want the three of youse to go blow out your candles.
Happy birthday, everybody.
One, two, three! Go! [ Cheering .]
At the end of the week, it was a great Easter, it was a great birthday, it was a great time.
I love my family, I love everybody, and I'm waiting for next year.
-Eat the dirt.
-It's good.
[ Laughs .]