In TLC's quest to find someone as obnoxious as Kate Gosselin they are presenting us with Cake Boss. Yep, Carlo's Bakery is a cross between the Kardashians and Charm City Cakes where the boss is a half wit raging rag who talks behind his customers backs calling them stupid and schmucks. His family works at the bakery too and his mother and sisters are so shrill they'd shatter your eardrums as they cry about selling a pile of cake for a 1,000 dollars and "WeAhe so busy heAhe." No one who works there is happy and they only fun they have is threatening the delivery boy with the loss of his pathetic delivery gig and dumping cake ingredients on each other. I hate these people and I'd rather make my own wedding cake from a Duncan Hines mix then fuck with them. Fuck off Carlo's Bakery, I don't care if you're Italian, stop yelling and complaining all the time and man, are you all ugly. Gawd, it's like night of the living cake and it should be sponsored by Massingil and AquaNet.*
And for craps sake! Will someone tell all these cake people, including Carlo's and Charm City that rice crispies with marshmallow is NOT cake. Fuck the fuck off with that mess. It's a joke. If you gave me a pile of rice crispies and a bag of marshmallows I could make you a copy of anything you showed me and so could most of my friends. Stop calling that shit art and trying to make us weep with your hard work and creative pieces. It's rice cereal and sugar...the equivalent of adult play dough. Shut the fuck up and build a cake once in awhile. I've heard through the grapevine the real cakes taste like dried out poo. I can make that.
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Yep pretty sad when us low life semi-cooks can do as well as the 'elite' professionals. Shut up and produce some real art and earn your title. I make rice krispy squares that rock. It's not rocket science.
Thank you for saying what's been in my head EVERY time I watch those shows! MY sentiments exactly!!
The folks at charm city have fun and I like them. But, it's still not cake or art. Carlo's Bakery makes me vomit.
he has been on cake challenge too, and he was kind of a smug a-hole on that too....sb
Even the commercials for that show are annoying. I never bothered to watch after seeing the adverts.
DD;
I sent you an email.
and all those creepy hands all over the fondant. Have you ever tasted fondant? groooooossssss
i love that show!!!!!! I just think it's cool that they're from jersey. :) Ace of cakes is a lot better though - i LOVE Geoff. :D
WTF? The above comment is me... I didn't even know I had two google accounts.. :-o
I was going to write on post on the Cake Boss show when it first came on TLC. I would never ever want to work in that bakery. Buddy is mean and obnoxious. I feel bad for the people who have to work with him. Boss or not he needs to show some respect to his family, employees and customers. The cakes aren't even that nice.
In one eposide Buddy flings butter cream onto a cake. That was a turn off. It was like he was doing someone else a favor than doing what he "loves" doing. I hope that show doesn't come back for another season. TLC needs to get better programming. Or just get off the air altogether.
I watch the Food Network's Ace of Cakes. It's easy on the eyes and fun to watch. No one looks like they are going to be killed by the boss. And their cakes come out awesome.
Buddy isn't even the Boss. His mom owns the bakery.
TLC blows so hard. They used to run interesting shows about medical problems. Now all they run is reality crap like "I have 23 kids!" or whatever. "Cake Boss" is no different, it is crap too. Buddy is mean and all of them yell too much. I would rather watch "Ace of Cakes" because while I find most of their cakes pretty average, at least Duff seems like a nice guy and doesn't run around screaming at everyone.
Why do you get so upset over lame tv shows?
I remember when Gordon Ramsey first came on the scene. It was right after I left my husband and everybody at work was talking about his show and what an asshole he was. My only thoughts were, why would I want to watch an asshole when I just left one? Why would I invite one into my home?
This is how I feel about "Cake Boss." Why bother? Also, being on TLC is a major turn off.
Disclaimer: I loved Kitchen Nightmares. I've worked at restaurants and I loved watching him turn them upside down and around. He's still an asshole.
When I was in H.S. I worked at an Italian restaurant and the owner was from Italy. he was very brusque and would yell easily. One time I made a mistake adding a check and he had a fit. He was yelling at me that I was lucky to have an education because he never learned to read and write.
That always stuck with me. He also made the best Chicken Vesuvius in the universe.
Don't get me started on his sons . . . hee hee. good naughty memories.
Naseem- totally agree with you 100%
I f'en hate this show, it annoys me.
But I f'en love rice krispy treats. Not cakes. Treats.
I gave up on Ace of Cakes when the partnered with Kate Gosselin. I used to love the show, especially Mary Alice and Geoff, but apparently they too do not mind the exploitation of children.
As for Cake Boss, I no longer watch TLC, so I have not seen it.
I have only had one fancy smancy cake made and that was for our wedding. We hire Ana Paz from Miami (we were living in South Florida). She was soooo cool and did a lovely job. Oh and no fondant for us! SWhe made the butter cream look as smooth as fondant. Fondant does not taste good for the most part.
Oh, and the hand thing without gloves really wigs me out. It wigged me out on Ace of Cakes and the description of Cake Boss & Co with their hands all over the place wigs me out too. I am glad I didn't see my fancy smancy cake being made, but I have a feeling she used pastry bags for the most part as there was a lot of piping done. At least I hope so.
scrapcat220/ Corina--LOL!!
Personally, after watching these stupid cake shows, I will NEVER eat anything that is made from fondant. They touch it, play with it and it is just disgusting. Who wants to eat something that 10 people touched without any gloves on? It looks gross and probably tastes like shit. Give me a regular butter cream cake with sugar icing anyday, instead of that crap they these cake idiots produce.
Buddy is just a asshole and those bitches on that other show are annoying. It is cake people, it is not going to make the world a better place or improve society if you make a dam cake to look like a frigging alligator morphing into an owl that is 10 ft tall for $3,000.
Ditto on the rice krispies. It's fine if they wanna use to sculpt and edible ornament, but don't ever call it cake.
On that same note, when I see wedding cakes made on the local bakeries (not the decoration, but the cake itself) it makes me wanna smack someone, when I see the choices of vanilla and chocolate. How lame. The wedding cake that I know (and love!) is a fig cake, with dried fruit and nuts that have been soaked (with the candied figs) in rum for about 3 months, and added to the batter to make a rich concoction. Before you say "fruitcake, yuck" I have to tell you it has NOTHING to do with those nasty items they sell every december at the grocery store. It's a real cake made with real fruit, the purpose is to bring the couple good fortune and abundance. It is the BEST part of the wedding, the one thing (besides the snacks-oh gawd the snacks...) that people look forward to when they go to a wedding. Making a wedding cake in my culture is a ritual as important as the wedding itself. Many people won't make a 'rush' order just because the soaking of the fruit takes that long. Ohhhhh I'm craving it now.....
I had serious deja vu reading this. Very weird. Almost didn't even have to read it.
On a related note- my husband hates CCC because he says they should be 100% cake. Lots of their projects involve pvc pipes/wood/screws/fire/etc. He always gets real pissy when I watch it
I don't watch TLC at all but I have seen this show advertised on another channel and I agree that it looks like loud mouths druming up drama for reality tv...I'm so over all this reality tv junk. They all make me sick at this point. I stick with Top Chef, Project Runway etc...At least they are trying to accomplish something more than looking like idiots.
I LOVE Duff and the rest of the crew at Charm City Cakes. Duff's laugh sends me over the edge laughing myself so even if they use the RKT occassionally I still wouldn't tell them to F off, they have fun...now for the other dude I can not stand him and don't mind telling him the RKT is not cake.
Connie
I hate both of these cake shows. Both the places seem pretty unsanitary to me. Ace of Cakes with people touching everything without gloves, dirty fingernails, and hair flopping all over the place. That one guy with the messy hair actually scratched his head and wiped his nose one time while making a cake. Aren't hair nets required while working with food? Working with power tools and machine parts included in a cake seem very unappetizing to me. The minimum price on their cakes is 1000 dollars. Give me a break.
Buddy wants everyone to think he's a tough guy as in the mafia type. I don't care what a cake looks like as long as it tastes good. None of these cakes look like they taste very good. The shouting on this show is unbearable. All TLC knows how to do is copy other networks shows.
Ace Of Cakes, thank you. I couldn't think of the name. I always see that Charm City Cakes sign in my head. I love Duff and Mary Alice..still not cake though. Ugly crispies being handled by 10 people with no gloves..yes! Ick ick X 1000.
Corina, I knew that because because both links lead to the scrap book. You didn't know that? LMAO! I probably have some I don't know about either. Yahoo's register program is messed up.
Doesn't anyone use real frosting anymore!??? Fondont is GROSS.
And I used to work in a,cough, high class Italian restaurant too. Those fuckers were so obnoxiuos. They'd order in Italian after hours and laugh and call me ignorant girl and they never tipped. They thouht they ran the world. I hated them.
Oh, wait, I worked in an Italian dinner theatre when I was young, those people were the bomb and treated me like family. I guess Carlo's remeinds me of the bad Italians. Someone should put a hit out on Carlo's Bakery.
Biz, it sounds like you already covered this if your hubby bitches about cake parts. Cake parts piss me off too. Mechanical cakes..wtf?
Cake boss is an ass. I actually like Charm City Bakery aka: Ace of Cakes. His employees are pretty funny as is he. He is at least kinda cool. But the rice krispies thing is just bad. If I was paying that muc for a GD cake, it had better be a very beautiful & delcious cake!
OH! On Today this morning. Evidentally, MJ was in a design deal with the Ed Hardy guy, Christian Audigier to design a line of clothing. He revealed the designs this morning. He seems like a cool guy. But all I could think of is Jon Gosselin. Why the fuck if he was designing with MJ would he piss around with J-Goss? The clothes will now be selling for about 4x what they were going to originally going to cost. When the estate clears the designs to go thru they will be available. So, forget buying any of it all you regular people. Only J-Goss can afford it now.
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Meissa- I think I know the cake you're talking about. Is it kind of like a spiced honey cake? I think my friend's mother made something similar for the feast at the end of Ramadan. My friend brought some of the cake to a dinner party last fall and I thought people were going to riot trying to get a piece. Everyone swore it was the best cake they had ever had and I know it had figs in it. Makes me kind of wish I ate cake.
Don't eat cake? If I had a choice of one food left on the planet to eat, my choice would be cake. I LOVE cake. There's nothing like a piece of chocolate cake and a cold glass of milk. Cake is my downfall when it comes to losing weight. I have a big ass to prove it. LOL
I had a traumatic run in with a cake when I was 5. Translation, I ate an entire Wonder Woman cake except for the golden lasso on my birthday. My mom wasn't paying attention while she was setting up for the party and I figured it was for me and started eating. I spent the whole birthday extremely sick and my mother had to scramble to get a replacement cake. Bad idea all the way around. I love baking and love making desserts but even attempting to eat icing is like Fear Factor for me.
Screw all that fondant shite and neon food coloring. I learned how to make Italian Buttercream. Pure buttery silky deliousisness
Yellow cake with chocolate fudge frosting...served cold from fridge..... Mmmm...
MMMMMMMMM Chocolate cake with Cream Cheese Frosting, and a little nilla icecream on the side...I will be making a milky way surprise cake with carmel frosting for work on Thursday...and yep there not family family so there gettin' the boxed cake with the betty crocker carmel frosting.
Connie
BRAVA!
Finally, someone said it. I watched briefly as they did this tower of "cake". i thought:"shit, a 2 year old could do this".
Just saw your post and I have to agree. This guy is a joke. And I'm Italian and from New Jersey. I hate it when we are stereotyped as ignorant, uneducated people who can't speak in a complete sentence and yell all day long while eating meatballs and calling for "Ma." Well, sometimes I do that but I would never do it in public (LOL).He is a walking cliche, juust like those goomba housewives. They must be related.
Meissa2112-surely you are joking. Chocolate is "lame"??!! That is pure insanity!
The Charm City people did not seem charmed with Kate and her brood to me. They seemed annoyed.
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