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We have everything, OK?

Bye-bye. Well worth the trip!

You know, Carlo's Bakery started with a dream.

That's him, Buddy. Without him, this would never be here.

For my dad, it was a family business that would keep all of us together.

Hey, Lis.

That's my son. That's my boy, the one and only.

Now that I'm the boss,

the dream is getting a little bigger.

Bud, bud, bud. We're coming in hot.

I'm like, "Argh! The cakes are going down!"

What's up!

And this year is gonna be the biggest yet.

Why is it so loud?

We got our craziest cakes ever.

We got to make a cake for Willie Nelson. OK...

They don't get much more impressive than this.

A giant alligator?

He was like, "Who wants to eat some Cake Boss?"

Uh-oh!

And we've got to keep from driving each other crazy.

I'm not, like, the first man to ever be waxed.

Oh!

He didn't discuss this with me.

I think he has this fantasy that he wants to see me as a redhead.

Don't step in the poo!

The cake just doesn't do it for me.

Oh my God! What do you want me to tell you?

Your cousin is giving ME an attitude.

Because at the end of the day,

this dream is all about Amelia.

Happy birthday!

Wow!

How's the blushing bride feel?

I'm getting married!

Hi, Buddy. Hey, ma. Shedoesn'tlookgood.

I pray to God that this works.

This is Carlo's Bakery.

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.

I'm still amazed at how all these fish live in one tank

and they don't eat each other.

Can we put a fishing pole in here?

What's that, tuna?

Oh, look at the hammerhead, Danny.

Ooh! Where's his eyes?

Right in the corner.

So this week I got a call from the Adventure Aquarium in New Jersey

and they called me down

because they said they got something really big to talk to me about.

This is the main attraction. Themainattraction?

This is the big challenge that we want to...

A giant alligator. giantalligator? Holycannoli!

What's his name? MightyMike.

Mighty Mike?

How big is he? He's14feet long andover800pounds.

Look at the bumps. Holy...! Whoa!

He's about as big as an average sized automobile.

Oh my God.

800 pounds, Danny. OhmyGod.

We want to kind of honour his leaving.

He's gonna go to Newport, Kentucky, to our sister aquarium

and that's where he's gonna kind of live out the rest of his life.

So we kind of wanted to give him a big sendoff.

What do you want to see in the cake?

Like, him. Look, he's moving. He is on the move.

One of the things we talk a lot about with our guests

is just his sheer size.

So if you could make something maybe close to 14 feet long.

You want an actual replica of like, the actual size of the...?

Yeah. thinkthatwouldbeawesome.

Make the mouth open and stuff like that. 14 foot?

That's just for the alligator, then we got to do a board.

It's gonna be a big cake.

We want to give you some really good inspiration for our event.

We want to invite you in there to help us feed him.

How about that?

Look, my momma never raised no chooch.

You've got to be crazy to get into a tank with one of those things.

All right.

OK, come on in.

Is different when you see him from the outside

but when you're on exhibit with him and you're face-to-face

and there's no barrier between you and Mighty Mike

you get a real sense for how big he is.

I'm gonna take the bucket of food out there with us

He's gonna come up, I'm gonna get him settled.

He's gonna just sit there.

Well, I thought I was gonna throw from up here. I'm really going down?

You OK with that?

Oh, I guess so.

Here he comes. Come on out.

We got to do this quick. Come on, let's go!

Come on, Buddy!

I got him.

Come on tough guy, let's go.

Buddy, over here.

Uh-oh!

Come on big guy.

I saw the look in that guy's eye

and he was like, "Who wants to eat some Cake Boss?"

Look, he's looking at me, not you.

You've got to feed him a whole chicken.

Buddy, come on. Come on. Just throw it right there.

Hey!

All right.

Come on, one more.

I come up this way.

Ah, that's no fun!

So this will just fill the cake right on here

and then shape it right on here.

Yep.

So let me tell you, after being up close and personal with Mighty Mike

this cake is gonna be huge.

This is a big cake.

So this alligator's got to mangia.

We want the mouth to open and close, baby.

Are we happy with that?

Yeah, lower it down.

Open it up.

Ah!

I don't know what he thought was gonna happen, there.

It worked!

Please have a seat. Thankyou.

So I have a consultation today with a lady named Claire.

She's the former Mrs New Jersey.

So you need a cake for the pageant?

Yes. Being a former Mrs New Jersey I give a gift to the pageant,

the directors and the girls every year

and this year I wanted to give them a cake. OK.

I'm not sure exactly what I want

but I know what I don't want in my head so... OK.

It has to be classy, it has to be glamorous.

It has to be... perfect.

I just want it gorgeous. I want it to be wow

and if it's not I will be very disappointed.

It really has to be a wow cake.

Wow, it's beautiful. Wewantittolooklikethis

and this sash if we can do something with those.

OK.

What are your thoughts?

I'm... actually in my head,

I'm sorry I'm quiet... That'sOK.

I'm just... I'm building it in my head of what I'm thinking.

Hopefully you have the same vision as...

I hope, I hope!

I want to trust Buddy because I know how fabulous he is

but, you know, taste is subjective.

All right, listen. Don't worry about it.

I'm gonna make you a great cake. I'll figure this out.

Thank you so much. ThankYOUsomuch.

Pleasure. I'm gonna keep this. Allright.

Ican'twaittoseeit.

I can't promise somebody probably won't but the crown on 'em but...

Everybody wants to be a beauty queen.

You know, Claire is a very particular client.

At the end of the day I want to make her happy.

I want it to be beautiful, I want it to be elegant

and I have a great vision in my head

and I think she's gonna love it.

All right, guys. This is what I'm thinking.

She wants it to be elegant, she didn't give me an exact design

but looking at the sash,

I want to make a sash.

And I want to kind of like, wrap the cake with the sash.

And on top, maybe Ashley, you work on a crown

and we'll put a crown on top

and then I'll pipe some little details on it. Cool.

So what do you think? Blue? Ithinkblue'sfine.

So does your mom like your fiance?

Oh, she loves him. My whole family does.

We've been together five years in a couple of weeks.

That's awesome.

So making this cake for Mrs New Jersey,

it's kind of reminded me that our own NGB, Ashley,

is gonna me a Mrs soon too.

She's getting married in a couple of months

and we're gonna make the cake.

So we've been doing research for Momma and ALS

and we found that they're doing stem cell treatment in Israel

which is not approved in the United States yet.

You know, I think it's gonna be approved but we don't have time.

We got to do what we got to do.

What they do is they take the stem cells from your siblings

and then they inject it in you

and in a number of patients it's helped tremendously.

Everyone of your siblings said, without a doubt, 100%,

they would be there for you and do whatever they have to do.

I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

You know, we found out that my uncle Dominic was a 100% match.

Which is like, perfect.

And, you know,

we told him you might have to go to Israel and he said,

"No problem, I'll do whatever I got to do."

She believes that she's gonna get her miracle.

And I think that we're just waiting for it to happen.

It's my mom, my sister Mary and my uncle Dominic are going to Israel.

If it's got a chance of making her feel better,

whatever we've got to do, we'll do.

To make an 800 pound alligator

you need about 800 pounds of cake.

There's a lot of cake on here.

How close do think it's gonna get to the weight of the real alligator?

This is heavier than a regular alligator.

The thing about making Mighty Mike is

when you're doing a live size it's got to be exact

because any little mistake is gonna be magnified.

They don't get much more impressive than this.

I mean, look at this thing. Thisistwosheetsofplywood.

To get the alligator skin to really look authentic

we use the cobblestone mat and emboss the modelling chalk with it in.

I got to say, it looks realistic.

Is that good for you? That's... Forme, thesearegoodlikethis.

You're good, man.

It's a big cake.

Right?

All right, it looks like a sash to me.

Cara, just give me some butter cream and some different tips.

I want to start piping. You want twos, threes, fours?

Anything you got.

The idea for the piping is we're gonna try to do

like a white tiara crown type thing.

And I think that it's gonna soften the blue.

You get into the zone and you just kind of make it happen.

It looks cool.

As I'm piping and I'm adding like, a little bling inside

it's really starting to look beautiful

and it's starting to look really elegant.

Oh Buddy, someone's here to check on you.

Oh, all right.

Ooh, pretty.

Holy cannoli. Closeyourmouth, Danny.

How you doing? How's everything going?

Good, good.

I'm here today to check on the progress

of my cake for the pageant.

I want to see how well it's coming along

and make sure Buddy is doing it exactly the way I want it to be.

We have the tiara we're working on over here.

Oh, wow. Tiara looks great.

And I'm working on a sash.

Oh, look at that.

And we're gonna kind of like wrap the cake with it.

But I thought for some details maybe the pipe like a little tiara.

The cake just doesn't do it for me.

Well, it's not done. I mean, you know...

I just don't see the va va voom.

I'm not loving it.

All right.

I'm annoyed because I thought it was gonna look good.

I really had that feeling in my heart

that it was gonna be even better as I went on and kept going with it.

The other idea I had was to like, steam it. Keep it very clean.

We're gonna do double bling around here.

We're gonna wrap the sash. We're gonna put the tiara on top

and then we'll do a nice red ribbon around here.

That I like. That sounds fabulous.

Claire, Mrs New Jersey, she's like,

"I want it to be beautiful, I want it to be elegant."

I don't think she knows what she wants.

This, you know, something I'm giving as a gift

so I want to make sure every little detail is perfect.

All right, Danny, let's put the sash on.

You know, now that I'm looking at it

I think it does look kind of plain.

Maybe it does need to cover in some of that blue.

There's a lot of blue.

Hm.

We stepped back but she's like,

"You know what? I think it needs a little more."

Yeah, the piping!

Do you want me to pipe something else?

Can you pipe maybe some roses?

We can put some roses.

Give me some sugar... Sugar roses would be good.

Red. Perfect.

That looks beautiful.

That's more like what I had in mind.

Bam!

I think it looks great.

I love the rhinestones and the roses.

This just brings out so much more. This is fabulous.

The girls are gonna love it. Ithinkitlooksbeautiful.

I also think that the roses were a great touch on there.

This is definitely a crowning cake.

All right, Danny. Box it for her and bring it out.

Pleasure. Thank you.

Thank you so much. Appreciate it.

You got it.

At the end of the day, she left happy, so I'm happy.

The cake was beautiful. Danny got to help out to the car

and... what are you going to do?

You don't want me to come over your house and set up this cake, do you?

No, we're good! OK.

All right, it was nice meeting you. Thankyou.

Thankyousomuch. You're welcome.

We're making scutes.

Scutes or scoots? I never even heard of...

It's another word for scales. I just call them scales.

Well, it's different with alligators.

These are technically the scales but these, the little protrusions

on their back which look like spikes, are called scutes.

I've always called them scutes.

So that's what we're making.

We need to make about 150 of them.

When that thing gets airbrushed

it's gonna look so much like the alligator.

Just looking at it with just the scutes on the back,

it looks fantastic.

You know, the challenging part of this alligator cake

is to really make it look authentic.

The only way to really make it look authentic

is to get the textures right.

It looks black. Yeah, it'scharcoalblack.

Alligator skin has got a lot of different colour variations in it.

So first thing we're gonna do is hit it was some dry black

and chartreuse.

I want to get the alligator

to look like he jumped right out of the water.

So I'm airbrushing some iridescent pearl on there

to give it a shiny gloss.

And the more we layered it,

the more she looked like coming to life.

This is... This is a cake!

Rahh!

Get a little brown and just try brushing it.

I'll be honest with you guys,

I was a little trepidatious when you guys talked about sheen

but MAN does that make it look good.

When I step back and look at this cake

I'm like ecstatic

because we've done some life size stuff and this thing looked real.

I know they're gonna love it.

This is probably one of the coolest cakes we ever made.

Now THAT'S an alligator!

This is definitely one of the top 10 cakes we've ever made. Definitely.

This goes in the Buddy playbook on the top 10 list.

And it ain't easy to get on that list cos I've made a lot of cakes.

Top 10, baby! Rahh!

Mighty Mike is going from Adventure Aquarium to our sister aquarium

and this is a chance for us to really celebrate

what Mighty Mike has done for Adventure Aquarium

and what the staff has done.

All right, let's do it. Open up. Let's do it.

It's gonna go underneath the wheel.

Let's get the wheel out a little more.

This cake is 16 foot long

and weighs over a thousand pounds.

Now that's a big alligator.

Oh my God!

Hi guys, how we doing?

Oh my God!

Everybody's floored by the cake

but they haven't seen it mangiare yet.

They're gonna love it!

Ready, go!

That's awesome.

Pretty cool? Goodjob.

So who wants to eat some cake?

I mean, it was unbelievable just to see how large the alligator was.

He really did come through with a 14 foot cake.

And he got all the detail like,

amazing.

Like if you didn't know that was cake,

you'd think that was a real alligator.

Have a safe trip, Mighty Mike.

We love you.

Well, Mary said she was gonna give me a call now

and let me know how momma's doing over there.

So I got a call from my sister, Mary, and my mom.

They're in Israel right now getting stem cell treatments

form momma's ALS.

Hey, Mare. How we doing?

Hey, Ma. Buddy.

Oh, she doesn't look good.

Hi, Buddy. Howyoudoing, ma?

I feel weak but, you know,

as long as I got it done hopefully in time it's gonna work.

We're hoping and praying here, ma.

Do you feel any different or not yet? Anything?

No, it takes a, you know, three to four weeks

to feel, you know, something.

She definitely don't feel different. She's weak.

But it takes time so we got to give it time.

And everything went well with the doctor, Mary?

Um... You know, yesterday she had three procedures.

She's just... I don't think that she's in any pain.

She just is very tired.

I see that she is a lot weaker.

Like, she's weak.

Just get her... Just get her home safe

and we'll do the best we can.

I pray to God that this works.

You know, this is the first steps in a long journey

and everybody's just praying that everything goes well

and momma comes home safe

and hopefully she feels better.

All right, let me say bye to mommy.

Take care, mom. Mom.

Love you. She'scrying.

I love you so much.

All right, mom. Feel better. Rest! Bye-bye.

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