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And cut!

Oh! Oh-ho!

On this episode of Cake Boss.

So, we got the samurai cake.

These work? Be careful about... Sorry. ..getting hit.

Like a ninja, baby.

Who wants some?

I figured we have a little friendly competition. A little entertainment.

Banzai!

I, Steven Michael Fulop...

He's becoming the mayor of Jersey City!

We'll do a big top hat on top, very Uncle Sam.

Why is it so loud? It's a cannon.

Is it gonna damage the cake?

I hope this cake don't blow when we turn the confetti cannon on.

Step back, boys. One, two, three!

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.

So, this week, we're at New York Budokai.

They're actually one of the oldest samurai schools in New York City.

They're celebrating 50 years, and they want us to make a great cake.

So, these are wooden swords,

and the idea is you're really learning how to fight.

These work? Be careful about... Sorry... getting hit.

I didn't mean to hurt you. I didn't mean to do it. Not now. Mm.

So, the idea is, if someone's at you,

how do you get them to commit

so you can do one of the techniques?

And begin.

Ichi. Ni. Ready?

You would have been dead already, Ashley.

OK, good. Give me two more.

And cut! Oh! Oh-ho!

Nice. Sicilian, baby!

Cut. Nice.

Cut.

And cut!

Like a ninja, baby.

Oh, yeah.

These guys have been teaching samurai martial arts for 50 years.

And they want a cake inspired by the history and tradition.

The dojo was founded here in New York City

by our founder Yoshiteru Otani.

He came here from Japan in the early '50s.

So we show respect to him

and the traditions of the samurai.

So, to do this cake, I'm thinking,

you know, maybe doing something like the armour.

Sounds good. When it's, like,

the colours and the textures are really beautiful, right?

Some helmets had a really crazy crests, like horns.

Some were done like the conch shells, or...

So, I think if we could inspire from the armour,

I think it'll be an awesome cake.

Fantastic, yeah. All right?

Thank you so much. Thank you.

All right. Pleasure. Thank you. Thank you.

So, this is what the sketch is.

And I think that we just kinda, like, stack up the armour.

Mm-hm. All right.

We'll do cake here, cake here.

It's good because then you can make a platform here.

Then you can make a platform here

that can rest the top torso, then the bottom.

It might be easier to make the inside of the helmet solid

and put the faceplate over it... And just rest 'em on it.

...instead of making a hollow empty helmet and putting it on.

It'll be like a mannequin head. Yeah. Exactly.

So, my idea for this cake is to do, like, samurai armour all stacked up,

kinda like you would see in a museum.

Mauro, you're gonna do the construction on it? I'll do that.

You guys will fill it. You'll bake the sponge,

and then we'll get it going. Let's start.

What you got?

Frankie, come here. You gotta hold this square and straight for me.

You wanna start doing that thing this way.

But if we're gonna put cake, you wanna stay 4in in.

Probably the best way to do the bottom.

It would be cos the bottom's gonna be the more support.

And on top of here, we can basically take the whole cake. We'll have more cake, yeah.

What you got? What you got?

Good old vanilla cake.

To be honest with you, one of the things I always wanted to make

was, like, a full-armoured samurai.

What they used to wear in battle is so colourful and vibrant,

and it had great textures on it.

How many more you gonna make? This one and another one?

And then another one up on top.

We got to do it the right way so that it really looks authentic.

I'm Buddy. Pleasure to meet you.

I'm Carmen Fulop. Arthur Fulop. Pleasure to meet you guys.

Well, what could I do for you guys today?

Well, we would like to order a cake for our son Steven.

He's going to be the next mayor of Jersey City.

Hoboken and Jersey City are next door to each other, so I'm a son of both.

Carmen and Arthur were immigrants who came over

and kinda lived the American dream.

We came from Romania in 1967.

We had a little business and we raised three boys,

who were able to go to college and become somebody.

We knew that with hard work you can do that here.

You know what? I still believe it.

I still believe it. Yeah. It is possible.

Look what he accomplished. He's becoming the mayor of Jersey City,

which is a city with a quarter-million people.

It's amazing. That's an amazing story. Yeah.

So, what do you think about the cake?

The inauguration is going to be a little bit old-school,

a little bit old-fashioned.

There's gonna be cotton candy. There is gonna be music.

There is going to be...

Just the whole feel is going to be of celebration.

And I want the cake to be super patriotic-looking,

red, white and blue. Of course.

Trust me. I'm gonna make a great cake.

I'm a Hudson County boy myself,

so I won't let you down. OK.

We hope that Buddy's gonna be able

to make this extra special cake for Steven.

It will probably be a special, special moment.

For Steven's inauguration cake,

they told me that part of the theme of the inauguration

is gonna have, like, old-school bunting,

top hats, very Uncle Sam.

So we'll do a big top hat on top.

But I'm also thinking that this cake needs just a little something extra.

Something that's gonna really give it that pop.

I wanted to do something patriotic,

and I thought of, like, maybe a confetti cannon.

So, I'm just gonna give you an aerial view, looking down,

on what I'm looking for.

So, we'll have a box, right? Mm-hm.

And then, put a round cake in the middle.

And then in the back I wanna do some sort of confetti cannons,

maybe two or maybe one.

When we bring this cake out in front of the crowd,

I want it to just explode with confetti.

Kind of, like, sits behind the cake. You won't see it. And then poof.

And then it, like, it kind of, like, rains down behind the cake.

So I've got Maurizio building a high-pressure air cannon

in the base of the cake.

In order for this to work, we're gonna need a really big blast of air.

And it's gotta be directed just right

because we don't want the cake to explode,

we want the confetti to shoot out.

What are you doing?

We've been working really hard at the bakery,

and I feel like a prank or a couple of laughs

just, like, gets everybody back in the mood.

So I have this great idea to do a little sumo wrestling at the bakery.

In the honour of the Japanese tradition,

I figured we have a little friendly competition. A little entertainment.

Sumo wrestling is not related to samurai,

but at the end of the day I just think the suits are pretty funny.

I think there's a bunch of people who wanna put them on,

go at it and see what happens.

Who wants to go? Who wants to go in?

Ashley? I wanna fight.

All right! I need a woman to fight Ashley.

Jessica! Jessica. Come on.

Come on, Bacchus. Come on, Ashley.

All right. All right.

Arms in? Yeah.

You in?

Wait, wait, wait.

Who wants some?

All right, you better scrap, all right?

All right, all right. Oh, ow!

This is a tough match.

You got two titans going at it, and you got two tough girls there.

So I don't know who'll win.

In this corner, weighing in at approximately 98 pounds,

hailing from parts unknown and uncared about,

Ashley "The Next Great Baker" Holt!

And... And in this corner...

...weighing in at 100 pounds...

...from Brooklyn, New York,

Jessica Bacchus!

Are you ready?

Yeah!

Ready, set.

Banzai!

Use the legs, Bacchus. Use the legs.

Oh, yeah. Sweep the leg. Gravity. Sweep the leg.

Oh.

Sweep the leg!

Uh-oh.

Winner!

You have no idea how tired these things make you.

I was so out of breath. But I came out winning, and I'm happy.

Get her up again. Stand up. Whoo!

So, the challenge with the samurai cake

is to make all the details really authentic.

And let me tell you, there's a lot of details, baby.

I mean, we're talking everything from the armour to the material,

the mask, everything.

Is this, like, string?

It's flat segments that are laced together.

So, yeah, it's like string.

So, the plates of the samurai armour

are held together by cords made out of silk thread.

Well, Frankie, give me a tip that would simulate rope...

...like, maybe like a 199.

This is a 199 decorating tip.

And I think it's gonna work perfect on the samurai cake

because the little ridges is gonna look like silk lacing.

I think it's cool.

We decided to go with red and yellow

because I thought those colours would pop.

And then we'll just put a little,

like, in and out here or something at the end.

So, I'll do the same thing here.

And I figured, let's add a black band of fondant

over the silk pipe strings.

So it kind of looks like it was, like, woven into that band.

Looks like it's all, like, layers of armour.

Give me those and let me put those on.

So, for this inauguration cake,

we got a very patriotic thing going on there.

I mean, we got the stars and stripes.

Now we just got to make sure that the fireworks work, baby.

All right. So, this is what we got.

This is the, the mechanism. Good.

This is the detonator. Let it blow.

Let's add a button on the side.

All right. I gotta to juice it up.

What are you gonna put it, 90? I'll go 90.

It's gonna be outside. Do 100.

100 is tops. The relief valve starts going off at 100.

Do 100.

This air cannon uses pressurised air to make it work.

It's 100psi. That's the highest it'll go.

But it's go big or go home here, baby.

Uh-oh.

The pressure release valve is about to burst.

Hit the switch!

Fire in the hole.

Why is it so loud? It's a cannon!

Is it, is it gonna damage the cake?

One thing for sure, this crowd is gonna be covered in confetti.

I just hope they ain't covered in cake.

These are ready?

So, we're making this inauguration cake for Steven,

who's gonna be the new mayor of Jersey City.

This inauguration's got a very old-school theme to it.

You know, something you might have seen 100 years ago.

It's gonna be red, white, and blue with streamers and bunting.

It's gonna scream American.

It looks good.

I have to sculpt the face mask for this.

I need all of the brown chocolate painted gold, please. OK.

Ralph's helmet is looking phenomenal.

It's got, like, horns and teeth, and...

I mean, it looks like old-school samurai! Wa-ta!

Let's finish the cake.

Put some in here, like, another strip.

All right, what do you guys think?

Mean. RALPH: I like it. It's ferocious.

I think it looks pretty cool.

It's very different from anything we've done before. Yeah.

It's you, isn't it? It's solid. It's heavy.

It shows all different techniques.

There's sculpting, piping, fondant.

There's everything on there. I like the horns on top.

Gorgeous. Horns.

I think it looks great.

Watch the horns.

Oh, we got it.

Uh-oh. This is the elevator? Yeah.

Can we fit it once we're in there?

It can sit on the ground.

The problem is we got a tiny elevator.

And the half rack and the cake is not gonna fit.

If we carry it, the cake's gonna fit,

but I don't know if the bakers and the cake is gonna fit.

Maybe not me too...

Now, you, Maurizio, me, and Danny, we fit. We fit.

All right. We're gonna fit. We're gonna fit.

Up. One, two, three.

Up. Now pull that back. Now bring him down.

Go down, Danny. Get next to me.

You're in. We're in.

Go in. Who's gonna push the button?

I got it. We got to up now.

Mauro, you got to go in there.

How we gonna get it back out? Let's go.

Push.

Argh!

Now where are we going?

Pick it up. Pick it up, let it slide under.

OK.

OK, pull, Danny.

Oh, my God. Whoa, hey!

Samurai.

Push that over here.

All right.

What do you think, huh?

You guys did an amazing job.

This is absolutely, like, more than I thought you guys were doing.

I'm blown away by it.

That cake was, like, this giant samurai coming at me.

I was like, "Whoa! Where's my sword?"

We want to present this to the Otanis.

I never met your husband,

but he's had a huge impact on my life

and all the students at New York Budokai.

You know, we're celebrating 50 years of budo now

and we hope we're gonna go for another 50 years.

So, thank you so much.

Yay. Thank you so much.

All right! So, who wants to eat some cake?

The first thing that ran through my head was, like,

"How did they do that?"

Specifically, the helmet and the mask was, like, beyond expectation.

And I was just amazed that he was able to get

that level of detail in a cake.

Everybody loved the cake.

It was a real tribute to the history and the culture.

And, you know, I just love doing it.

We'll do the bottom first? Yeah. Start right here.

Jersey City is a city of immigrants.

People came from all over the world

and migrated and came to Jersey City-Hoboken area.

So it's a melting pot.

And what says that more than a patriotic cake?

Easy. Up. Up.

Well, why don't you ease it at the top?

Don't tip it too much.

Move your fingers out.

It looks good.

I think the cake looks awesome.

It just, like, screams America.

Like, "Fourth of July. Patriotic."

You know, "Melting pot," all together in one.

I know the new mayor and his family are gonna love it.

Today is the day that Steven

has his inauguration as Mayor of Jersey City.

And my knees are wobbly and my heart is just beating so fast.

Good evening, Jersey City.

Mayor Steven M Fulop.

I, Steven Michael Fulop...

...do solemnly swear... ...do solemnly swear...

...that I will support the Constitution of the United States...

...that I will support the Constitution of the United States...

...perform all of the duties of the Mayor of the City of Jersey City...

...perform all duties of Mayor of the City of Jersey City...

...so help me God. ..so help me God.

Congratulations.

To watch Arthur and Carmen's faces as Steven got sworn in was priceless.

Here he comes, Buddy Valastro and the Cake Boss crew.

How we doing?

Hey, how we doing? Congratulations, Mayor.

That is unbelievable. That is unbelievable.

Thank you so much. Great job. Beautiful job.

Great job. Unbelievable.

It's for you, sweetheart.

The family totally loved the cake. They were blown away by it.

I just hope we don't blow cake all over the mayor

when we fire up this confetti cannon.

We got a little extra surprise.

Let me show you what this thing can do.

Step back, boys.

One, two, three.

Thank you. Congratulations.

So, who wants to eat some cake?

The cake came out awesome.

And it tied in with the theme beautifully.

I thought the cake was terrific.

First of all, it blew up, which was really terrific.

Thank you so much.

Great job. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Great job.

Their son just got sworn in as the mayor.

And I know that they're excited about the cake,

but they're just so proud of their son right now.

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