CAKE BOSS

If you love eating, love humour and most definitely LOVE cake, then you are going to love watching CAKE BOSS!


If you've been following my blog, you would remember that I did a post on the Ace of Cakes awhile back, but I have recently discovered an even better cake-making show. A few months ago, my sister emailed me with a link to a youtube video for the show Cake Boss. This was during a period when I was very busy so I decided to bookmark the page. Now that uni exams are over, I decided to do a little bit of "spring cleaning" starting with the computer. I was deleting some junk bookmarks that I had made over the past six months when I came across this link. Seeing that I had nothing better to do, I decided to give the show a go and I haven't looked back.


The Cake Boss follows the ins and outs of Carlo's Bakery in New Jersey, America. It was founded in 1910 and is currently run by third generation Bartolo Valastro Jr. aka Buddy. It is almost entirely family-run with Buddy's four sisters out the front on the register and various brother in-laws, cousins, nephews out in the back making the cakes. Each episode, they concentrate on the making of two or three 'speciality' cakes. These are cakes that people had pre-ordered with a certain theme ranging from 'cage-fighting' to 'roller-blading'. 


However what sets this show apart from other cake-making shows is that since the bakery is family-run, there are many arguments, funny moments and annoying moments, all which are embellished by their "Italian flair". Mistakes are aired including dropping the cake down a flight of stairs and even a minor car crash while delivering a cake! Even though there must have been cameras following their every move, there isn't that sense of "acting" as such but of genuine determination and emotions. They would literally argue but make-up because of their love and affection for each other because as Buddy always says "in the end, we love each other because we're family".


By the end of watching each episode, I just feel like making cake or better yet, eating cake! The show actually debuted in 2009 so I'm already behind on this but I would definitely encourage you to watch this awesome show!







Liv xoxx