If you love cake, then you must know about Carlo s Bake Shop, the site and location of the famed show “Cake Boss” where family members are constantly baking cakes, ranging from party birthday cakes to wedding cakes. The main appeal of this show is it’s very family oriented, since after all this show is run by a family, with Valastro as the “Cake Boss”. The Food Network has launched a competitor show “Ace Of Cakes” and TLC, who produces “Cake Boss” responded with yet another cake show “Ultimate Cake Off”. This comedy features Valastro, a proud, colorful Italian with a funny attitude and an accent to give his words a lot of punch. He also happens to be quite the comedian. Valastro himself doesn’t realize how real his show has become, in which he stars, when he witnessed a bride to be deface her own cake by squirting it with some unmatched colored icing. He told her that she “has got to be kidding” but later turned out the bride just thought it would be funny for the audience. Valastro says he meets all sorts of “crazy” personalities out there.
The most difficult part of running Carlo s Bake Shop is the long work hours and hectic schedule. He works 12 to 18 hours a day, 6 days a week. He normally wouldn’t mind such hours but he misses his wife and 3 kids, which is what really hurts him the most. The bake shop belonged to Valastro’s father, who bought the store from somebody else. Valastro’s father came to America when he was 13 with nothing but his shoes for possessions. Valastro says he is what the American dream is all about, and he’s right. Valastro is an avid baker, and he treats his profession like a science, referring himself jokingly as a mad scientist. While other people just mix, match, and shove something in the oven, Valastro does test batches of cakes until it comes out just right. His cake making skills command a hefty fee, he once made a rhino cake for a museum in New York, charging $8,000 for the job. What makes it so expensive is the precise, fine details that goes into the roses or indents, or creases on the cakes. Some call him a sugar artist but Valastro insists on calling himself a baker first, since baking after all is his passion. The large popularity of this show has TLC (The Learning Channel) signing this bake shop on for another season, and families all across America are tuning in every week because of the show’s characters, the family aspect of it, and of course, the colorful cakes. The personality that is reflected in each cake, is also within each baker, and the family togetherness of the show has enchanted many families throughout America. Carlo s Bake Shop is located in Hoboken, New Jersey.
