BUDD Y: On this episode of "Cake Boss"...
Field trip to the museum.
They found this fossil of this mammal,
so they wanted me to re-create it out of cake.
Dinosaur there, tree there, tree there.
I want it like "Rrr!"
I told you this morning to take the stuff out,
because now I got to wait for the stuff to thaw out!
It's frozen solid! How am I gonna cut it?
-So, what's the occasion? -M y Sweet 16.
This thing is heavy, man.
-Put it right here. -All right, no problem.
Danny. Danny! [Bleep]
BUDD Y: This is Carlo's Bakery.
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Every week, thousands of cakes and pastries go out these doors.
♪ Oh, sugar, sugar ♪
This is the crew. Mia famiglia.
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We're gonna take this bakery to the top.
They call me Buddy. I'm the boss.
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♪ Oh, sugar, sugar ♪
So I get a phone call
from the M useum of Natural History in New York,
and he's like, "We need a cake. "
Wow!
That's crazy, man.
WOMAN: That's awesome.
BUDD Y: So, it turns out
they found this fossil of this mammal.
It's like 50 million years old,
and it was actually the biggest mammal to ever walk the Earth.
It's three times the size of an elephant,
and they made this big replica of it,
so they wanted me to re-create it out of cake
for the opening of the exhibit.
" I ndricotherium. "
BUDD Y: Listen, don't --
Listen, don't even start.
They pronounce it something like "indiradrinium. "
" I ndricastherium. "
" I ndrogatheria. "
It's like an indricotherium.
That's what they call it. I ndricotherium.
Look at the detail on this thing.
We got to really make this thing really big.
It's gonna be pretty amazing.
You'll have underneath here cereal treats, this cereal.
The rest will all be cake on top,
which is the majority of the cake.
I n order to achieve this skin,
we're gonna use fondant and modeling chocolate together.
And we're gonna scratch it and scuff it
so that it gets this rough look.
So, my vision was seeing this big mammal on top of a cake
with two trees and a little caveman standing next to it
because I really wanted to show the size proportion
of the caveman to the indricotherium.
It was very important to show that.
Dinosaur there, tree there, tree there.
I wanted it to look like a scene right out of the museum.
I really wanted to feel like in the wild.
We had to build some hills and make some dips and valleys.
We're gonna cover it in white fondant
just to keep the structure together.
Okay.
BUDD Y: Once we get the landscape the shape that we want,
then we dirty-ice it and cover it with fondant,
which helps keep everything together.
Next step -- get somebody cutting leaves.
The leaves we're cutting out of green fondant,
and for the trees themselves,
we're doing something a little different.
Are you sure it's in?
This ain't going no place, man.
BUDD Y: We're covering PVC pipe with modeling chocolate.
More of a pretty decoration.
Come on, what else, Mauro?
We got to get the green.
Get some green here.
Maybe we'll get a big bag with a big, green leaf tip.
BUDD Y: To get the look of a prehistoric swamp,
we started roughing in the cake with green buttercream.
And then Remy comes through
with the clear, bluish-green piping gel
to make the rivers.
While this was all happening,
Daniella was finishing the caveman.
It's completely made out of modeling chocolate,
and, I mean, it came together nice.
Very nice.
M y other big project this week
is a birthday cake for this girl Lexi's Sweet 16.
Just tell me a little bit about yourself.
What's your favorite things?
The beach.
Anything that, like, goes along with the beach.
Surfboards, flip-flops.
LEXI: Yeah, I like colors that, like, stand out.
BUDD Y: Yeah, a lime green.
LEXI: I like the hot pink a lot.
BUDD Y: Okay, so we're gonna definitely use hot pink, teal.
It's gonna be funky. It's gonna have some flair to it.
-Are you a city girl? -Yeah, I like the city a lot.
We're definitely gonna do some cityscapes in there,
I think.
Lexi's a New York City girl
who loves the California beaches,
so I got to get a lot of both into this cake.
I'm thinking the square cake with the tiers off-kilter
because I think that that's fun.
You know, I think for a Sweet 16,
it doesn't look like a wedding cake.
Mauro, Remy, could you guys come here for a second?
I want to make them a mammal that's huge
and it looks like it's lifelike.
I want it like "Rrr!"
The hardest thing to do on the mammal cake
is to figure out a way to get the underbelly to stay
and then sculpt on top of it.
We're gonna do circles.
We're gonna cut the bottom and just -- [Trills] -- fan it.
-Pound cake? -Nine pound cakes.
What I did was I made a frame of the body,
then I screwed down some wooden dowels
so that it was square and then, you know, it was stability.
Then, on top of this structure, we sculpt pound cake.
The problem is, I'm looking around,
and there's no pound cake.
Danny, where's the pound cake?
What? You talking to me?
BUDD Y: I know that I told him to take the stuff out,
but he was trying to play stupid with me.
So now it's been in the freezer.
Now how am I supposed to cut it and get it ready?
I told you this morning to take the stuff out,
because now I got to wait for the stuff to thaw out!
Danny, you know better.
You know how many cakes we got to do.
I mean, it's always something.
How am I supposed to cut these, huh?
It's frozen solid. How am I gonna cut it?
I wanted to kill Danny. This is a huge setback.
I mean, now I got to wait an extra two, three hours
for these cakes to thaw out.
This is always -- It's always --
It's always a problem. It's always a problem.
I need to use cereal treats to get the underbelly to stay
because cake would just fall.
And I got to glue them up with royal icing
so that it would stay in place.
And then once the pound cake had thawed a little...
... I cut a little end off so that I could stack them
because he's kind of round.
Then, I need to put more royal icing around the dowels
so the cereal treats will stick and look like legs.
I do the same process for the indricotherium's head,
and then I start sculpting.
So, we're cruising on this thing.
We've got it dirty-iced. We've got the fondant going.
I mean, we're in the zone.
You busy?
I need you.
I need you for about five minutes.
Buddy and I are very close.
We grew up three houses away from each other,
so I was always over at the house.
Buddy and I went to school together.
He didn't have any brothers, so we were kind of --
He was the brother I never had,
and I was the brother he never had.
So, what's on your mind, cuz? Talk to me.
It's -- Every day, I do the same thing.
I come in, I put up the whipped cream,
we set up the store, we do the birthday cakes.
It's just I'm stuck in my routine every day.
A lot of people don't know this about me,
but I used to work on Wall Street for 10 years
on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
After I lost my job in the city,
Buddy and I had a talk, and he was like, you know --
He was looking for help and I was available
and he's kind of taken me under his wing
and has really taught me the trade.
You know, I've learned a lot,
and I think I'm ready to start decorating
some of the more elaborate cakes.
There is one cake that is this weekend.
It's for a client that very, very hard for me to please
all the time.
It's my niece's dance recital,
which means you'd be making Mary's cake.
Mary looks at me as some kind of, like, just an assistant,
an apprentice upstairs.
This is my opportunity to really show Mary what I can do.
BUDD Y: Listen, got a little situation.
M y cousin actually said
that he really wanted to make your daughter's cake.
You got to give the guy a shot. You don't trust him?
He's not the best decorator.
Well, he's up-and-coming. He's learning.
Not on my daughter he's not learning.
Come on, you don't think he can do it?
Cuz, I love you,
but I consider you just, like, his bitch here.
I'm just saying.
Absolutely not.
I'm just saying.
No, he's got a lot more in him.
If he needs it, I will help him.
I nevitably, if he screws it up a little bit,
it's still the family cake,
so, you know, it's not the worst thing.
It's not like it's a paying customer.
But at the end of the day,
he's gonna learn how to deal with a pain in the ass.
MARY: I think I want, like, ballet shoes
sculpted on the top.
Okay.
And then, like, the ribbons, you know?
The ribbons coming down like this?
Yeah, maybe we could do some stars because she's the star.
Okay.
She was being Mary.
She was definitely a tough customer.
Just have a little faith.
This is the first specialty cake you're making.
FRANKI E: Mary wants this three-tier cake
and specifically asked for chocolate and vanilla
because her daughter likes both.
-How you doing, cuzino? -What's up, B.?
-You want any help? -I'm good right now.
I think the cake itself I'll be able to handle.
It's the detailed decorating -- you know, the artistic stuff --
that I'm a little concerned about.
[ Sighs ] Ballerina.
So, Mary wants pictures of ballerinas
around one of the tiers of the cake.
And drawing is definitely not my forte.
And it kind of looked like a man, not a little girl.
What do you think of my ballerina?
What is it?
I mean, nice try.
-lf you could help me out... -I would love to help you out.
I don't think that she wants this on her cake.
I know.
That's why I figured I'd come to you.
Okay.
I'm sure she ain't gonna like no matter what you do
'cause that's just the way she is.
All right, we got to go.
We got to bang out this Sweet 16 cake.
Lexi's Sweet 16 cake is gonna be very personalized.
This cake is gonna tell a story about her.
The bottom tier is gonna be more beach.
You know, I'm thinking the bottom should be very beachy,
with sand, and that'll be the California tier.
WOMAN: Put the ball up here on the corner.
BUDD Y: The next tier, I'm gonna go into a cityscape.
That's okay.
I like the different variations in height.
And then, as we go up the cake,
there's gonna be, like, a contemporary, fun gift box
with some stripes, polka dots, and a bow.
This cake is literally gonna scream "Lexi. "
I mean, I'm gonna have it in, like, a bright neon sign.
Done.
Cousin Anthony.
Get your ass upstairs. Come on, you got to go.
That's my cousin Anthony.
He does a little of this, a little of that,
including deliveries.
He's a good kid. Very reliable.
What's up?
-Danny. -What's up?
Come on, you and him got to go, all right?
Take this cake. Let's go.
[ Grunting ]
I got it.
Watch the door.
I got it. I got it.
This thing is heavy, man.
-Put it right here. -All right, no problem.
Danny. Danny! [Bleep]
WOMAN: Aah!
-What the hell happened? -[ Gasps ]
M y brother is gonna kill you.
You're telling me.
Buddy!
Are you all right?
What did youse do?!
It was [bleep] Danny's fault.
This is for today!
I told him I had to reposition my hand,
and he pushes the cake towards me.
Bring the thing inside!
This cake took us days to do,
and these two morons dropped it down the stairs!
All right, everybody over here. Come on.
I don't want to hear it. Just let's work.
-Where's the rest of it? -What the hell happened?
It fell. Let's not talk about it, okay?
Let's get the sponge.
Come on, start cutting buildings, mixing colors.
We got to go. This cake is for today.
Come on. Come on.
There, there.
It's not a joke.
We cut the sheets and we start filling the cake,
and we got to move, man.
You got the fondant colors mixed?
Come on, move it.
I better have all that fondant ready to go.
Let me tell you, when we got a group effort like this
and my team works this way,
I mean, it's like we work miracles.
Wait. It's got to go around there.
All right, Christine, you work on the buildings.
I'll work on the bottom tier then.
All right, guys, come on. We got to move it.
We got to get done. We're almost home.
All right, give me the shopping bag, Remy.
Got to set back.
We put this cake together in an hour and a half.
Let's go.
Cousin Anthony's out. He's not making this delivery.
I got to make this delivery myself.
Come on, pull.
Thank God that we got there and it was okay.
All the guests haven't gotten there yet,
so we made it in the nick of time.
Careful.
Watch, watch, watch. Easy does it.
[ Gasps ] Oh, my God!
YOUNG WOMAN: It's so cool. It's amazing.
LEXI: [ Gasps ]
Oh, Buddy, thank you so much!
M y pleasure. Congratulations.
YOUNG WOMAN: Look at the sand. It's like real.
So pretty!
He put in so many different things about me personally
that it was just amazing.
The cake was great.
To see how happy that girl was made my day.
Hey, Frankie, I just finished this picture.
FRANKI E: That is perfect.
I mean, you didn't have to make my drawing look that bad.
I have to take this drawing and I scan it into the computer
and it prints out on edible paper using food coloring.
So then, I mount the pictures on gum paste
and let them dry a bit.
Buddy always talks about getting into the zone when he decorates.
I couldn't get into my zone
because the entire time I'm doing this cake,
everybody's watching me.
I want to go into the corner
and just take my cake and work on it.
I don't want to have everybody watching me.
It's definitely putting me on the spot.
-Bye! -Bye!
Good night.
Make sure you shut the lights.
[ Sighs ]
BUDD Y: Why don't we get a piece to go from here to here?
Then we're gonna wrap it down.
So, the skin of the mammal cake was coming really cool.
What I did was, I mixed together fondant and modeling chocolate,
and we laid it over the cake.
And then I took this tool, and I scratched it and scuffed it,
and, I mean, I was forming it with my fingers.
And it was just coming to life,
and it looked exactly like the mammal skin at the museum.
Don't go nuts.
I'll do like this and then you add a couple thicker things,
because this is a little bit more detailed lines.
The skin's starting to look good,
but we got to add a lot of details to this guy.
We got to put some green.
Have a little too much black in there.
To make the skin look real, I knew I had to use luster dust
in all different colors.
We're gonna hit the legs good with this
so that it blends more with that.
So, like, all those little lines that I scored out,
just by going over it like that, it kind of makes it pop.
That looks pretty cool.
Let's get the mammal on top.
Your end's first.
I got it.
All right, let's get a couple sheets,
'cause we got to fill the cake in over here.
We finished putting the last of the cake into the landscape,
then the finishing touches.
We're gonna make his toenails here.
Gum-paste toenails.
Brown and green buttercream icing for the ground.
Little plants and bushes made out of modeling chocolate.
Chocolate rocks.
And crushed-up cookies for dirt.
WOMAN: Wow! It looks real.
BUDD Y: All done.
She looks great.
We were just, I mean, flabbergasted.
This was actually one of the nicest cakes I ever did.
I had one problem.
This cake had to weigh close to 400 pounds.
It's go time! Let's go!
One, two, three.
Wait, wait, wait. You got to --
Are we on, Remy?
It's really a behemoth.
Watch. Wait, wait, wait.
Nice and easy.
Easy.
Let it go.
Okay, wait, wait.
Twist it, twist it.
Come on, twist it, twist it.
I got the bottom.
You got to come back more.
Watch.
[ I ndistinct shouting ]
Watch!
Okay, it's in.
All right, we're good.
Look at my arms!
We got it in the truck, and I was like, "Thank God. "
I got it.
All right, got to go up.
That cake was heavy, man, and we had to carry it up steps.
I was like, "God, please be on my side. "
Down, down.
Down more, more.
[ Gasping ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
People in the audience for the mammal cake dug this guy up.
These guys know their mammals.
So, I don't know what's harder.
Pronouncing its name or making it.
[ Laughter ]
We worked really hard on making this indricotherium.
Is that good?
They really did their research on this,
because it matches the model that's on display.
I think the cake is spectacular.
BUDD Y: They were impressed.
I know I did good.
[ I ndistinct conversations ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
Tonight's the dinner for Lucia's dance recital,
and the whole family's there.
I mean, Lucia looked so cute in her dance-recital outfit,
in her little tutu.
I mean, she's adorable.
I hope Frankie pulled through with the cake.
Uncle Frankie made your cake, not Uncle Buddy.
This is one of the first cakes he did all by himself,
so we have to see what it looks like.
I'm really starting to get nervous.
What are they gonna say about my cake?
Are they gonna like it?
All right, here comes your cake.
[ Exclaiming ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
She smiled, which meant she liked the cake.
MARY: Well, do you like it?
It looks good.
You did a good job.
BUDD Y: Come on, he did a good job. I'm really happy.
I'm proud of you. You did a great job.
-Thank you. -Very good job.
Very good job.
At the end of the day, what I'm most proud of
is that my cousin did what he said he was gonna do.
He stepped up and he did a good job and I'm happy.
The first cake he ever made.