BUDD Y: On this episode of "Cake Boss"...
We want something different for our wedding, and unique.
I had the idea to have the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Ooh, interesting.
She's a-shaking, but she ain't going.
Happy birthday.
[ Laughter ]
-The party's tonight. -Tonight?
He needs it tonight!
Start doing it. You're on your own.
There's your lobster.
You got me live lobsters?
Whoa-oh!
-Oh, my God. -KEVI N: Oh, my God.
BUDD Y: 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 ♪
All right, guys. Team meeting.
I got a cake for the bride and groom,
and they're really big on traveling to Italy,
so they thought, "Why not the Leaning Tower of Pisa?"
We want something different for our wedding, and unique.
I had the idea to have the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Ooh, interesting.
And I just thought, only if it would be realistic.
Listen, that's not gonna be a boring, everyday wedding cake.
It's gonna be the Leaning Tower of Pisa, leaning.
-It's got to lean. -It's got to lean.
We want a Leaning Tower of Pisa.
We don't want a Fall-Over Tower of Pisa.
Well, I mean, listen. It's not gonna be easy.
Being Italian, I take that to, like, my pride, my heritage.
It's got to be a certain way.
It's gonna look like the tower,
and it's gonna lean like the tower, all righty?
Thank you. It was a pleasure meeting you today.
-Congratulations. -Thank you very much.
BUDD Y: For the Leaning Tower of Pisa,
I'm imagining this tall, tall cake.
It's gonna be like eight layers of cake.
We're gonna make every little column, every little detail.
We're gonna have a little bride and groom on a Vespa
that's actually gonna look like them.
I'm gonna take their pictures and make it look just like them.
So, the idea of making this cake lean
is we're gonna make this cake all nice and straight.
-That good? -It's not gonna go no place,
once this thing is bolted in here.
BUDD Y: Then I'm gonna take a shim
and put the shim in between two boards.
It's gonna make the cake lean a little bit.
MAURO: Just 1/4 of an inch -- Look how crooked it is already.
BUDD Y: And then I'm gonna screw her down so she can't tip over.
She's a-gonna lean, but she's a-not gonna fall.
Let's pull out all the sponge.
At this point, I got to ice and stack this cake.
We'll use 14s. 14s will work.
So, I immediately take Danny.
I start filling and icing, and he's cutting and trimming.
Don't try to cut too, too much off it.
And we're stacking it up. We're putting the supports in.
What do you think? Nice?
The inside of this cake is gonna be a pound cake,
and we're gonna use a buttercream filling.
And it's got to be perfect.
[ Exhales deeply ]
Give me the pegs.
We're lining up all the boards,
making sure that all the columns match up.
For the most part, they're pretty straight.
When you put the icing on, and I go with the cardboard,
what I'm doing is smoothing it out.
I'm trying to get every tier to be level
and have the same amount of buttercream around it
so that when I put the bricks on, number one, it sticks,
and, number two, that it all looks like it's even.
Two more.
This cake is gonna stand over 4' tall.
She's a-shaking, but she ain't going.
-WOMAN: Hi. -Hi. Is Buddy here?
You have an appointment with Buddy? Sure.
Come over here and have a seat.
Thanks so much. I appreciate it.
Hey, how you doing? I'm Buddy.
Buddy. M ichael. How are you?
How's everything going?
Great, man. Thanks for meeting me.
Oh, my pleasure. Anytime.
So, I've got this thing going on.
I'm the best man in a wedding for the first time in my life.
It's my best friend, Rob, okay?
I'm throwing a party for him on Friday.
-This is their engagement party? -Yep.
The party is a clam- and a lobster-bake on a roof-deck bar.
You know, I want, you know, something...
... you know, like...
So, this guy kind of just didn't have an idea
of exactly what he wanted.
[ Laughs ]
So, tell me a little bit about the couple.
Rob is my main guy.
I've known Rob for probably 20 years.
Rob's been going out with Kim for 10 years.
-All right. -10 years?
10 years.
M inchia. They're not married yet?
It's kind of like they're taking the plunge.
Finally, after 10 years, they're taking the plunge.
I think we got to, like,
make that predominant on the cake somehow.
Clambake. I mean, I don't know.
When I think of a clambake, I think, like, a big pot.
You said lobsters, right?
Yep. Lobsters and clams, and I think...
So, maybe we could do, like, a lobster bride and groom
on top of the pot, ready to make the plunge into the pot.
You can actually make that as a cake?
Yeah!
I think that could look really cool.
I mean, if you could actually pull that off...
Come on! Of course.
You know I'm from Hoboken, brother.
You know I can do this for you.
Let's see how she leans.
MAURO: Sayonara.
[ Grunts ]
MAURO: Yeah, that's good. But it's still shaking.
BUDD Y: Stop!
All right, that's it. I don't want to lean no more.
Let's rock 'n' roll.
Let's work on this first. Let's mix the color.
So, the first thing we got to do is start putting bricks
around the inside layers of Pisa.
So we take the fondant, we roll it out thin,
and we have this little brick rolling pin.
We roll it out, we cut strips,
and we kind of blanket it around each tier.
I got it, I got it.
It's not leaning.
Not yet. It will lean.
Okay, I'm gonna start putting the sticks in.
Next thing we got to do is stick all the columns through.
Give me another stick.
After we stick all the columns through, we got to cover 'em.
Let's see what we have, arcs and edges,
so that we can maybe do something in there.
We wrap each column
with a piece of modeling chocolate and fondant.
As I look at the Leaning Tower of Pisa in the photographs,
I noticed that each little column
has, like, little columns on the top and bottom.
So what I do is I roll fondant out really thick,
and I cut a square.
And then I cut a circle out of the square
to make the room for the column in the inside,
and then I cut it with a scissor so I can wrap it around,
and it looks just like a column base.
MAURO: Starting to take shape. Starting to look good.
GRACE: Hello.
Hey, is Buddy around? It's kind of an emergency.
GRACE: Buddy, there's a M ichael here
to see you in regards to his cake.
Please come down. M ichael's here to see you.
Come down, please.
M ICHAEL: What's up, man? How are you?
What's up?
Remember I told you the party was on Friday?
Yeah.
Um, I'm not quite sure how to say this, but, uh...
I kind of mixed up the dates, here.
The party's tonight.
-Tonight? -Yeah.
-Dude, I can't help you. -Did you make the cake yet?
Did I make the cake yet? Of course not!
It's for Friday. You're telling me tonight.
I mixed up the dates. I don't know what to do here.
You got to understand something.
I already have other work to do. This is, like...
I didn't prep anything. I didn't start anything.
I mean...
I can't tell you how awful I feel about this.
If I wasn't such a nice guy, I would have told him
to take his head and stuff it in a pot.
I'll do the best I can.
-I appreciate that. -No problem, man.
All right. I'll see you tonight.
All right. Thank you!
BUDD Y: You got it.
Frigging stupid guy with that clambake cake.
He needs it tonight!
-The pot and the lobster? -The pot and the lobster.
-For tonight? -Tonight, he wants it.
What am I gonna say to the guy?
He came in. He needed a cake for tonight.
N-O. No!
But you told him Y-E-S, yes?
Well, get on your high horse and start lobstering away.
BUDD Y: We're all busy.
Go ahead. Start doing it. You're on your own.
Go ahead. It's all yours, babe.
BUDD Y: What I did for the pot is I took 10-inch round cakes
and I just stacked them up and filled them.
And I covered the cake in fondant
and then making it look like it was silver,
like a silver pot -- We're gonna paint it silver
and then stick a lid on top.
Go get me some brown sugar, please.
So, I'm thinking about all the elements of a lobster-bake.
I'm thinking, if you're at the beach,
you got sand, you got boiling water.
And I'm like, "Boiling water. What am I gonna do?"
Tone-Tone, I want you to go get me some ice.
A bag of ice?
BUDD Y: I immediately have this idea.
I'm gonna take ice, put it on a sheet pan,
and I'm gonna melt Isomalt.
And I'm gonna pour the burning-hot Isomalt
over the ice,
which, what's gonna happen is it'll melt the ice,
but it'll dry the Isomalt
to look like bubbling, boiling water.
While the Isomalt is drying,
I got a little time to add details to the Pisa cake.
The more we layer the details on, the nicer it's becoming.
You got to imagine, this is the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
This was done brick by brick.
That's kind of how we have to make it --
detail by detail by detail.
But the more details we're putting,
the better she's a-Iooking.
How's it look?
WOMAN: Beautiful.
BUDD Y: So, the Isomalt is dry, and it looks awesome.
I mean, it really looked like boiling water.
The next thing I had to do was mold the clamshells.
You need clams at a clambake, right?
So I took fondant, stuck them into a mold,
popped them out, let them dry a little bit.
Then I went back and painted them
with edible black petal dust.
The clams really looked like real clamshells.
It was beautiful.
What's up?
BUDD Y: I called Cousin Anthony.
I'm like, "Go get me some lobsters. "
I need some 3-D. I need some inspiration.
Go get me lobsters. I need lobsters.
-Get me lobsters. -All right. Whatever.
Hello? Guys!
We're busy!
You got to understand something. We have an intercom system.
Sometimes they say something,
and then we answer, and they don't hear us,
and it's like they think that we're doing it purposely,
and they take it offensively.
Guys! Guys.
Wha-a-a-t?!
LISA: Listen.
A gaming cake. What's the smallest one?
MAURO: Lisa, take a message, Lisa.
MAN: Somebody disconnect the phones.
LISA: A buddy box.
What?!
A buddy box.
MAURO: Take a message!
Lisa, I'm busy!
LISA: How many people?
I'm busy!
I can't hear with everybody screaming,
so if one person can pick up the phone and answer my question.
What?!
[ Telephone rings ]
I mean, seriously!
GRACE: Hello?
Why is she calling upstairs? We're busy up here.
Give them an hour. Take a message.
We'll call everybody back later.
Why don't you just tell them to do that?
I tell them all the time. I tell them all the time.
But they got to keep up here, breaking chops.
We have all this stuff to do.
BUDD Y: Every day, I got to come in.
I got to get my balls broken at work.
I got to hear this.
I tell you, when I drop dead, I'm gonna go right to heaven.
I'm gonna go to, like, sainthood.
Every day. [ M imicking nagging ]
So, for the Leaning Tower of Pisa cake,
I take Daniella, and I put her on making the Vespa
and the bride and groom.
She's a really good sculptor,
so I think it's a good job for her.
You got to understand something. I'm a perfectionist.
I mean, it's looking sharp, but I'm looking at it,
and it just doesn't look rustic enough.
Where's the brown?
So I'm like, "Let's get some brown petal dust
and make it look a little antique. "
You know, let's start painting some details on,
shadowing it a little bit.
And as we're doing it, it's really starting to come to life.
I mean, it's just looking great.
There's your lobster.
You got me live lobsters?
You wanted lobsters. I got you lobsters.
BUDD Y: Cousin Anthony comes back,
and he's holding two live lobsters.
Whoa-oh! No, no, no, no, no.
Oh, look. He even opened up his claw.
BUDD Y: [ Laughs ]
And I'm like, "You know what? Let me look at it, "
because seeing the lobsters actually wasn't a bad idea,
because it kind of helped me make my own.
There's nothing like having a live model in front of you.
It wasn't a bad idea.
Buddy! All right, listen.
I don't know what you think. You guys are --
You're playing with lobsters,
and I don't know what I got to do first downstairs.
We're busy!
And they start in... [M imicking nagging]
If I call the store and I have a couple questions,
just answer the question -- That's it!
-BUDD Y: I'm busy. -I know.
You're so busy, you're playing with lobsters.
GRACE: You're so busy.
I n this situation, I think my sisters had some valid points,
but for the most part, they had a lot of invalid points.
I didn't want to deal with them, so I just yes'd them to death.
You're absolutely right.
When we call upstairs to ask you about a cake,
I don't want to bust your balls.
But if I have a question, I want it answered.
You're absolutely right.
We have to run the front with your help.
[ Distorted ] So you need to help us run the front
so we can run it smoothly.
I do help youse run the front.
[ Distorted ] I want a couple answers when I call.
I agree.
[ Distorted ] I don't know what I got to do first downstairs.
Yeah.
Hello? Do you even...
Are you even listening?
BUDD Y: I was like, "Look, let's just make up.
Let's just whatever.
Let's work together and do what we got to do. "
[ Mauro singing in Italian ]
So now I got to make these lobsters.
First thing I do is make red modeling chocolate.
So I start making the claws,
and I start doing all the little details on it.
I shape the head.
I make the tail. I do some veins in it.
I make all the little legs.
And then I put a little top hat on the groom,
and I'm gonna put a little veil on the bride.
It looks cool.
I went back with a little orange petal dust,
just to bring it down a shade
so it didn't look so red and black.
I wanted it to have some variations of orange in it.
The flames -- What I did is I took fondant.
And I rolled out different colors --
yellow, orange, and red --
and I kind of streaked it together.
And then I cut out little leaf patterns
that kind of looked like flames.
Then I just stuck them around.
I stick these two lobsters on.
I make their claws interlock, like they're holding claws.
I think that's really cute.
I lay all the clams around the base of the cake,
and the cake looked great.
I mean, it was awesome.
All right, guys. Come on over.
I love those lobsters.
Very impressed!
BUDD Y: The little lobsters looked good,
the Isomalt for the boiling water, the flames, the shells.
Everything looked great on this cake.
I can't believe I got this cake done
in about three, four hours.
I really knocked it out.
I want to eat one of these suckers.
MAN: That's a good idea.
All right, guys. See you later.
WOMAN: Have fun.
BUDD Y: Now I got to hurry up, get this cake in the car,
and get it over to the event,
'cause this thing's happening now.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Congratulations. I'm Buddy.
Thank you so much, Buddy.
I saved your you-know-what.
M ICHAEL: Exactly.
-KI M: Thank you. -You did a great job.
M y pleasure. Anytime.
I'm happy you guys like it. Enjoy it.
And it tastes as good as it looks.
Have a great day. Thanks!
[ Applause ]
Guys, I need someone to fix this flower, because, um...
I smashed it by accident.
Who has the pink buttercream there?
Tone, do you know how to fix the flower?
They haven't showed me how to make buttercream flowers.
-They haven't? -No.
Isn't that, like, first day of school?
Kind of.
-Tone? -What?
I love you.
Happy birthday.
[ Laughter ]
BUDD Y: Here at Carlo's Bakery, we got a little tradition.
When it's your birthday,
we smash a little cake in your face.
I love you, though, Tone! That's with love.
It's with love!
BUDD Y: You don't know where it's coming from,
and all of a sudden, bada-boom!
TON Y: I know every year, they throw a cake in someone's face
when they're not expecting it for their birthday.
And I figured I was gonna get initiated.
But I thought, actually, Buddy would do it.
I didn't think it was gonna come from Mary.
She really got me.
That was good.
All right, listen.
We got to be really careful. Wait a second.
Let me see something.
Right there. That's the back.
We're gonna... We're gonna lean it that way.
All right, we got to be really careful with this.
We don't want this to drop.
So, I finish this beautiful cake,
and now I got to make it lean, and my heart's racing,
because I'm like, "What if this cake falls over?"
Let's get the screws.
MAURO: It's definitely leaning.
Okay.
[ Drill whirring ]
Be careful screwing it in, it don't tip over.
It's leaning towards you now.
BUDD Y: So, I take the bride and groom.
-MAURO: Turn it, turn it. -BUDD Y: That's it.
That's it, like that.
BUDD Y: I put them on the cake.
I step back, and I was like, "Oh, my God. "
This cake looked awesome.
Hold on, guys. What do you think?
-WOMAN: It's amazing. -MAURO: Very nice.
BUDD Y: It was leaning. It was detailed.
It looked exact.
It had the bride and groom on a Vespa.
I mean, they were gonna be happy.
I think it looks good.
Reminds me of Italy.
DAN I ELLA: Beautiful.
The best cake yet.
Awesome. All right, let's rock 'n' roll.
Come on, let's pick this up.
[ Groans ] Straighten out.
We got to deliver this Pisa cake today,
and it's frigging raining outside.
So what do I got to do? I got to put a body bag on it.
That's kind of what we use to cover the racks.
It's a rack cover. We call 'em body bags.
This Tower of Pisa cake is gonna give me a heart attack.
It's gonna add years to my life, for sure.
MAN: All right. Down, down!
LIZA: [ Laughs ] Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Where's this cake going?
Down the ramp.
Oh, my God.
That is so beautiful!
[ Applause ]
Oh, my God!
BUDD Y: We move it to the final table,
and the whole wedding is there, and they go nuts.
Like I was frigging Bon Jovi. It was like, "Yeah!"
They were going crazy.
LIZA: Look at the Vespa!
Oh, my God, Buddy!
Oh, my God, Buddy.
LIZA: Oh!
KEVI N: That is outrageous. Outrageous.
-Really? You like it? -Unbelievable job.
It really meant a lot to me to have the bride so happy.
I mean, it made all that hard work worth it.
I couldn't be happier for you guys.
LIZA: Thank you so much.
You look beautiful. You both look great.
Beyond my wildest dreams.
I'm in the business of making people happy.
That's the business of cakes.
-KEVI N: Love you. -LIZA: I love you.
MAN: That's awesome.
All right, guys. Dinner's ready.
MAN: Oh, yeah!
BUDD Y: Now, that's a clambake.
FRANKI E: Give him a kiss.
MAURO: [ Smooching ]
-Sayonara. -He's so cute.
BUDD Y: So, listen.
At the end of the week, I couldn't be with a better bunch.
-Salute! -MAN: Salute!
MAURO: To Pisa and lobsters.
BUDD Y: To Pisa and lobsters! [ Laughs ]
MAURO: Salute!
-BUDD Y: M m-mm-mm. -FRANKI E: What's for dessert?
Cake.
[ Laughter ]