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Buddy Valastro's Cake Dynasty Season 1 Episode 1- Totally Wicked Cake - FULL
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00:00I'm Buddy Valastro, and this is my family.
00:05Together, we make cakes.
00:08Cakes on a plate. What could go wrong?
00:10Big cakes. Crazy cakes.
00:12And those cakes turn into more cakes, and pies, and cookies, and pizza.
00:17In this enormous factory where I work side-by-side with my family.
00:21Well, I'll tell you.
00:22I said no, Steve!
00:24Running a small bakery was tough, but running an empire...
00:28You're in my world now, Junior.
00:30You can down, down, down, when your family's by your side.
00:33It's a piece of cake.
00:35When Carlos Bakery started, we were a small storefront in Hoboken, New Jersey.
01:01But in the last 20 years, we've transformed the shop into one of the most iconic bakeries in the world.
01:09But you know what happens when you do something great.
01:12You have to do it bigger and better.
01:14And the pressure to be the best is what drives me.
01:21I'm asked to make cakes for some of the biggest clients in the world.
01:25And today is no different.
01:27Hello.
01:28Hey.
01:29Hey.
01:29Uh, are you on your way ahead?
01:31I am.
01:32I'll be in in about 20 minutes.
01:34Just, uh, almost there.
01:36All right.
01:37I got a call to do a cake for one of the biggest shows on Broadway, Wicked.
01:43So I'm heading to the city to meet the two leads, Alyssa and Mackenzie.
01:48They play the two witches in a show, Alphaba and Glenda.
01:53I'm in.
01:53I'm in.
01:55Hello.
01:56Hello.
01:56How are you doing?
01:59How are you?
01:59It's so nice to meet you.
02:00Such a pleasure.
02:01Funny thing is, I never met such happy witches in my life.
02:04This is your dress?
02:05This is my dress.
02:07This is fantastic.
02:07Yeah, this is the iconic bubble dress that Glenda comes down in the beginning in her bubble at the beginning of the show.
02:14Yep, you travel by bubble.
02:15I do.
02:16I travel by broom.
02:17And you travel by broom.
02:19Yes, yes.
02:19So what can I do for you?
02:21For the 20th anniversary of Wicked, we would love to surprise the cast with a really special cake.
02:27All right.
02:27We're going to have a big reveal on stage.
02:29Yeah.
02:30It's got to be big.
02:31It's got to be big.
02:31It's got to be big.
02:31We want to knock their socks off.
02:33Yeah.
02:33All right, talk me through the story a little bit so that I can kind of, like, paint a picture in my head.
02:39The story is kind of the backstory of the Wicked Witch of the West and Glenda the Good Witch.
02:44Okay.
02:44And it starts kind of as, like, a hate relationship.
02:48Okay.
02:49But then throughout the show, their relationship grows stronger and they become best friends and you really see the love between these two women and it's such a powerful story.
02:57Well, then, listen, I mean, for me, like, the most predominant part has got to be the two witches, right?
03:04Yeah, the witches.
03:05You know, we're going to have the two witches.
03:06And I really like, like, looking at this dress, I'm very inspired.
03:11It looks like a big cupcake, you know?
03:14I say mine over there.
03:15This is my second act dress.
03:17Yeah.
03:17Let me see this.
03:18Yeah.
03:18So each one of these layers is sewed on by hand.
03:22These are all different fabrics.
03:24Right away, I'm noticing the difference between these two dresses.
03:27I mean, they're polar opposites.
03:29So finding a balance in the cake design is going to be challenging.
03:33I couldn't think of a better person for the job, but we need it in three days.
03:39Don't worry about the cake.
03:41I'm going to go talk it over with my team.
03:43You set the bar real high for me.
03:46So I got three days to make an epic cake for them, but that's not the hardest part.
03:50Done.
03:52It's such a pleasure.
03:53You're the best.
03:54Thank you, guys.
03:54Thank you so much.
03:55The hardest part for me is out doing what I've done before.
03:58I will not let you down.
03:59Good.
04:00Thank you, Bill.
04:00I'm so excited.
04:01Me too.
04:05I'm excited about the wicket cake, but these days, custom cakes are only one of the things
04:10I got to do.
04:13Eddie!
04:15Okay, lock everything in.
04:17Felt speeds everything.
04:18We've expanded so much from our bakery in Hoboken, the cake builds are like this much of my
04:23day.
04:24We got this huge factory pumping out thousands of cakes a day.
04:27We got over 17 different food concepts, over 75 vending machines.
04:33It's crazy.
04:35Just like back in the bakery, my whole family is still involved in everything we do.
04:39Stores are doing good.
04:40I mean, we beat week over week.
04:42Morrow, how many orders you got this week?
04:45This week, we have an average of, say, 400 a day.
04:49Lisa, you're the vending czar.
04:50Morning numbers that I get every morning at 630, they're not matching up what's actually
04:55going on in the machine.
04:57My wife, Lisa, and I have been married for 24 years.
05:00She raised four amazing kids.
05:02But the truth of the matter is, is now that it's later in life and I have had these successes,
05:09I want her to have her own because she deserves it.
05:13She is brilliant.
05:14And I'm just so happy that we're at a point in our life where I can have my wife next to
05:19me and we can do this together.
05:21Or Danny, what do you got?
05:23I don't have nothing.
05:24I just listen to you guys.
05:25Danny's with Carlos Bakery before I was born.
05:29We love Danny.
05:29He's like family.
05:31He just does what's got to get done.
05:32That's it.
05:32That's the best way.
05:34They don't call him the mule for now.
05:35Oh, I heard all these numbers by September 15th.
05:38I'm gone.
05:38He can't let him retire.
05:39You've been retiring for the last 30 years.
05:42The mule.
05:44Jack of all trades.
05:45I appreciate everybody.
05:46Let's do it.
05:48I made it my vow to keep the whole family together.
05:51Everybody still eats off the plate.
05:53This is my father's legacy.
05:55And if it's one of my kids that take over, what I do, it's going to be the same way.
06:00All right, kids.
06:11Let's go.
06:19All right.
06:19You're going to start.
06:20Take a little piece of this.
06:22You're going to roll it out through here.
06:24And then you're going to swap.
06:25And we're going to make fettuccine.
06:26Lisa and I came from working class backgrounds.
06:29And we are blessed and lucky at the lifestyle we live today.
06:34But we work for it.
06:35And if the kids want this, they got to work for it.
06:39I tell my kids, you want to eat?
06:40Here's an apron.
06:41Get to work.
06:43Do you guys want a meatball?
06:44Listen, I just want to make sure they're okay.
06:47I'm not hungry.
06:48No, you got to flatten it.
06:50Buddy Jr. is my oldest boy.
06:53Buddy Jr. is a quiet kid, unlike the rest of the family.
06:56But when he says something, he means it.
06:59The blue is pretty baller, too.
07:01I mean, I do look good in anything, so.
07:03He's finishing high school right now, and I want to see what he's going to do.
07:09Marco, love that guy.
07:11He's my ball buster.
07:13He's always talking.
07:14He's always joking around.
07:15I only have a few freaking grades, okay?
07:17It's just the size.
07:19It's not a...
07:20What are you talking about?
07:21You're getting old.
07:22That's what I'm talking about.
07:23Carlo.
07:24Baby Carlo.
07:26I don't want him to grow up.
07:27Buddy, it's curling up.
07:29Thank God that Carlo has got the high IQ here.
07:34Carlo's the smartest.
07:36Tell your cousin married by your finance class.
07:38What is it all about?
07:40Credit cards, compound interest, simple interest.
07:45Hey!
07:47Sophia is my oldest child.
07:49I'm so proud of her.
07:51Sophomore, Udell, she's killing it.
07:53She's studying hospitality and really learning that side of the business.
07:57You see where the red points?
07:59It's a position number.
08:00Yep.
08:00So we have 11, 12.
08:03How are you doing?
08:04Good.
08:04How are you?
08:05How's everything?
08:06Good.
08:06She's got a boyfriend.
08:07They've been going out for over a year now.
08:10He's a really nice kid.
08:12But if Anthony's going to be part of his family one day,
08:15you've got to learn that we make fun of each other,
08:17we get aroused out of each other.
08:19Wait, dang it.
08:20I thought it was delicious.
08:21Somebody thinks my cooking's delicious.
08:23Talk up.
08:25I'm just trying to get brownie points.
08:26And Anthony also knows that, you know,
08:30see the lake out there?
08:31Uh-huh.
08:31Nobody will miss you, man.
08:33Yeah, I know.
08:37Anthony, you know he's joking, right?
08:38Of course.
08:39That's just who we are.
08:42Yay!
08:45We can eat.
08:48Fresh pasta.
08:49Fresh pasta.
08:49What's special about getting the family together for dinner
08:53is that it reminds me of those great dinners
08:56with my mom and dad
08:58and creating all those great memories.
09:00And I want to recreate them with my family
09:03so that they'll never forget.
09:05Salute to family.
09:07Salute.
09:08Salute.
09:09Hello.
09:10Salute.
09:11Salute.
09:12So we were talking to my son Buddy,
09:14whether, you know,
09:15he's got to make a decision this time of year
09:17on what college he's going to.
09:19Maybe his aunts and uncles
09:21could give him some, um,
09:23words of wisdom.
09:24So what are our choices?
09:25The University of Delaware.
09:27Okay.
09:28The University of Las Vegas.
09:30That might be too wild.
09:31Syracuse University.
09:33He got into the Whitman School.
09:34I don't know.
09:35They're all good schools,
09:36so whichever one you like.
09:37Mom, you guys are all pushing college,
09:39but then, like, look at the other side.
09:40Then there's, like, the factory.
09:41I know the other side.
09:44I never said I wanted to go to college.
09:46Everyone keeps pushing me
09:47one direction or a different direction,
09:49so I'm listening to everyone's opinion,
09:51but at the end of the day,
09:52it's my call.
09:53I'm going to do what I want.
09:55Honestly, this is news to me.
09:56It's early in the morning,
10:18and I couldn't sleep.
10:20So I'm thinking about Junior's announcement
10:22that he doesn't want to go to college.
10:24I'm thinking about the wicked cake.
10:25My mind is always racing.
10:27Truth of the matter is,
10:28I just can't turn it off.
10:30But one thing for sure is that
10:32in the bakery business,
10:33we never get to sleep in.
10:35If Junior wants to be a baker,
10:38lesson one,
10:39he's got to know that he's got to get up
10:40in the morning before the sun rises.
10:42What are you doing?
10:44Six in the morning.
10:45I understand,
10:47but this is the life
10:48that you said you want to do.
10:50This is what you said.
10:51You don't want to go to college.
10:52You want to come.
10:54You got to learn the way.
10:56Today is all about chocolate chip cookies.
10:59This is the life.
11:01You get up early,
11:02you come home late,
11:03you eat s*** every day,
11:04and you got to love it.
11:06What is chocolate chip to you?
11:07When you think of it,
11:08what's a chocolate chip?
11:10Sugar cookie with chocolate chips?
11:12Yes.
11:12It's that perfect marriage
11:14in your mouth
11:16of butter, salt, and chocolate.
11:19My dad is the only person
11:21in the whole world
11:21that I know
11:22who takes chocolate chip cookies
11:23this seriously.
11:24Is it thicker?
11:25Is it thinner?
11:26Is it cakier?
11:27Is it crispy?
11:28Is it insanity?
11:29Yes, but I got this.
11:31I've been living with my dad
11:31my entire life.
11:32Throw those two pans in the oven,
11:34put a 13-minute timer, okay?
11:36And then let's finish
11:38this next batch over here.
11:40What's next?
11:41One and a half teaspoon
11:42of baking soda.
11:43Yeah.
11:44And then do this Belgian chocolate here.
11:47One and three-fourths, you said?
11:49Taste.
11:50Why?
11:50Did you set a timer for the...
11:52Yeah, mentally.
11:54When they're done...
11:55No, you set a timer.
11:56You have to be precise, okay?
11:58Set a timer for six minutes.
12:00What did I tell you the first thing?
12:02Put them in and...
12:02Set a timer.
12:03For 13 minutes, right?
12:05You did say that.
12:05Did you listen?
12:06Absolutely not.
12:08Buddy hasn't shown me
12:10that he's exactly ready
12:12for life at the factory.
12:14He fought me on setting the timers.
12:16He still wants to cut corners.
12:18He may have potential,
12:19but I can tell he's not ready yet.
12:21If you don't listen to me,
12:22this isn't gonna work.
12:24Trust me when I tell you.
12:37Hey, guys.
12:39What next?
12:40So, it's the 20th anniversary
12:42of the show Wicked on Broadway,
12:44and they want us to make a great cake
12:47to help celebrate their 20th anniversary.
12:50Nice.
12:50But the gist of it,
12:51we have the good witch and the bad witch.
12:56And the bad witch really isn't bad.
12:59She's misunderstood.
13:00Like me.
13:01Like you.
13:02Like you.
13:03Like me.
13:03What about the good witch and the bad witch?
13:06Maybe life size.
13:07I mean, I know it's aggressive.
13:10I want something...
13:12Wow.
13:12This is wicked.
13:14How big are the dolls?
13:15Big.
13:16My height.
13:17Look, I'd like to keep stuff smaller than life size.
13:20So maybe if we go about like so,
13:22because they're gonna be on a riser.
13:24Yeah.
13:24I mean, pretty damn close to life size.
13:27Yes.
13:27The good witch's dress is very poofy.
13:31Mm.
13:31This makes it very conducive to put cakes.
13:35Mm-hmm.
13:36Like those old school doll cakes that we're used to do?
13:38Yeah.
13:38Like, you know, like Big Bottom, you know what I mean?
13:41Why are you looking at me like that?
13:43Did you see him just looking at me like that?
13:45I know exactly what he did.
13:46He was already mean.
13:47I didn't say it in bad life.
13:48We're gonna make two life size cakes.
13:51One of Glenda and one of Alphaba.
13:53That showcase and contrast the two witches.
13:56For Glenda, we'll layer individually shaped pieces of modeling chocolate
13:59to give the illusion of fabric for the dress.
14:02Then use a combination of molds and hand sculpting
14:05to accomplish the look of realistic hair and jewelry.
14:09Alphaba's dress ain't gonna be easy.
14:10There's a ton of layers that we gotta layer by hand.
14:13Then Anna's gonna go in and do some real detailed features
14:17for the sculpting and the faces.
14:19And her quintessential blue witch's hat.
14:22And to balance out these two very different dresses,
14:25we're gonna have a two-tiered cake
14:26that's gonna take elements from the show.
14:29We have three days to make the cake.
14:32This cake checks all the makings of a disaster cake, right?
14:37I mean, you got life-size people, ton of detail.
14:42It's gotta get delivered to the city,
14:45so they gotta be structurally sound.
14:46It ain't easy.
14:48All right, you guys fill the cake.
14:50We're gonna work on the armatures.
14:52Break.
14:55Because of the size of the cake,
14:56we gotta make sure it doesn't collapse on the way to New York.
14:59So we are building an armature,
15:02which is hopefully stable enough to survive the trip.
15:05Get that super pose out.
15:06So I got more working on it.
15:13Once we got the armature built, it seems pretty stable.
15:17It's time to fill this thing with pound cake.
15:21You gotta get the measurement from there.
15:23First, make sure you have that, and then...
15:25Because we need something structurally sound to carve them out of.
15:29We're also adding buttercream as a glue.
15:31And also, because it's gotta taste delicious.
15:34Then we're gonna sculpt and shape it up and cover it in modeling chocolate.
15:38I'm working with Anna, helping her getting the sculptures ready.
15:42And later, Anna will do, like, the finer details on their faces and stuff.
15:47I am making myself a wire armature for the Clockwork Dragon,
15:53which is gonna sit on top of the 20 with the Wicked logo.
15:57I'm going to sculpt it out with some foil,
16:00and then it's gonna get covered in chocolate, just like everything else.
16:04I don't remember what its importance was in the book,
16:07and I haven't seen the show.
16:09Perhaps Liz would like to enlighten us.
16:12One of Liz's great passions are musicals.
16:16The dragon is not technically in the show.
16:18It lives above the entire set the whole time.
16:22I think that she's seen Wicked 800 times.
16:26It's like, it's all in dragon time, which is its own thing.
16:31So, but it lives there the whole time,
16:32and then, like, when big stuff happens, the dragon moves.
16:36It's sort of the chandelier from Phantom of the Opera, but...
16:40Gotcha.
16:40Gotcha.
16:46Man, a mountain of cake over here.
16:51Don't leave it here.
16:53It's gonna be a little bit big.
16:54Only thick often is the compass.
16:55You know what I'm saying, right?
16:56The dress doesn't have an exact uniform shape.
17:00So it's kind of all, like, free form,
17:02and then you have to kind of, like, stack it up,
17:04and then you have to, like, really carve it out
17:07so you get the perfect shape.
17:08Oh, yeah!
17:11Did you put any dowels?
17:13No.
17:13What, to support it?
17:15Yeah!
17:16What the f*** do you put the boards on for?
17:18So I'm watching my brother-in-law fill this thing up,
17:20and he's not putting any supports inside.
17:22And I'm like, oh, what is he gonna hold it up with?
17:25I thought he just wanted me to put cardboard.
17:27But what is the cardboard gonna do?
17:29It's not gonna f***ing hold it from crushing each other.
17:31Gravity's gravity.
17:32You can see it.
17:33This weight is gonna push down.
17:35You wanna take it out of it, Mauro?
17:36It's too heavy.
17:39F***ing idiot.
17:40How do you f***ing not put f***ing dowels?
17:42La f*** de su madre.
17:45You can't choose family.
17:53So we're making two life-size cakes
17:54for the 20th anniversary of the Broadway show Wicked.
17:58This weight is gonna push down.
18:00You putting dowels?
18:02No, I was gonna put one big one.
18:03There's almost 200 pounds of cake in here.
18:06Cut a couple dowels and stick them in.
18:08The regular half-inch dowels?
18:10Yeah, we'll let Joey go cut you a couple.
18:12How many do you want?
18:13Like five or six.
18:15I guess I'm gonna have to take two tiers off.
18:17I gotta have Joey cut the dowels.
18:21And I gotta put dowels in each tier.
18:22Then I gotta put the whole cake back together.
18:24That was this one, right?
18:25Yeah.
18:30Yeah.
18:32Yeah, that's it.
18:33Really, really good.
18:35Finally, the cakes have been filled.
18:37Now we're gonna concentrate on the witches' faces
18:39and their upper bodies.
18:41I'm all ready for you to...
18:43Actually, I was gonna say, so you might wanna...
18:45Roll her up a little bit?
18:46Just give, like...
18:47See, it should curve in here,
18:51but then you want her to have a little bit of a bicep.
18:53One of the things that's really important
18:54when you're sculpting them
18:55is to have enough definition and muscle tension.
18:59You want it to look like it's just paused
19:01in the midst of its movement.
19:03Hang on, I'm gonna do some quick surgery here.
19:06Yeah, yeah, do what you're gonna do.
19:08Oh!
19:08I don't like that.
19:09You ripped her head off, literally.
19:11So many people have played these two roles
19:14over the 20 years
19:15that I'm really trying to create an amalgam of faces
19:19that resembles the current people
19:22without specifically being them.
19:24Linda the good witch is coming along pretty well.
19:29This is traditional sculpture technique.
19:32We're just using modeling chocolate instead of clay.
19:35The challenging part, I'd say,
19:38is even though you know that
19:40that's the, you want to call it,
19:43the wicked witch,
19:44she's still beautiful.
19:45She doesn't have, like, that,
19:48like, the old witch with the molds.
19:51I'm working on the two-tier
19:53that's going to be behind both of our witches.
19:57The big 20 wicked is,
19:58this is kind of at the stand for that.
20:00And then I think we're also incorporating the dragon,
20:03the clock,
20:05and the Oz face.
20:08Maybe.
20:10If we have enough time.
20:12She's looking great.
20:14She's just about there.
20:16Tomorrow, I'd like to accomplish the dresses.
20:19Okay.
20:20I feel pretty good, you know?
20:21I can't stand you right now.
20:35What you just put on?
20:37Really?
20:39Like my dojo robe?
20:42How was your, uh, how was your day?
20:45It was pretty good.
20:46You know, hanging in there.
20:48I wanted to kill my brother-in-law's today.
20:50Why?
20:51Tomorrow stacked the cake
20:53without putting any supports in it.
20:54Oh, don't you make fun of me
20:56for doing that every year for your birthday?
20:58Yeah, but you're not a professional baker.
20:59They are.
21:02So, you don't think Junior wants to go to college, huh?
21:05I honestly don't think he really knows what he wants to do.
21:09I think he's confused.
21:10I want Buddy Jr. to go to college
21:12because I feel like this is the only time
21:15he'll have this experience.
21:16Well, I mean, if it's any consolation to you,
21:19I didn't graduate high school.
21:22And nobody seemed to give a...
21:24I know, but those were different times, Buddy.
21:26You had reasons why it ended up that way.
21:28I get it.
21:29I truly believe that if your father didn't pass away,
21:31you would have graduated high school.
21:33Look, I want Buddy to come work at the factory
21:36because I never got the chance to build
21:39the way that I wanted to with my father by my side.
21:44Okay?
21:44My father died when I was a kid,
21:46and we did some...
21:47Like, some of those memories were the best
21:49that I loved to work with my dad,
21:52and I could see me and Buddy working like that.
21:55We can build something great together.
21:57The only thing I could tell him
21:59is that whether he works for me,
22:02whether he goes to college,
22:04or whether he goes and works for someone else,
22:06you have to work a certain way.
22:08You have to know what it's like
22:10because that's going to bring your value.
22:13And I feel bad because I don't want him to...
22:16I don't want him to have to eat...
22:18But I think in life,
22:19you have to learn how to eat...
22:21And you have to eat it and eat it and eat it,
22:24and it just makes you tougher,
22:25and it makes you who you are.
22:26I feel like if he's too pampered,
22:28he's never going to be the man that he needs to be.
22:31Listen, I'm going to take him to the factory with me,
22:34and I'm going to show him how I work every day.
22:36I want him to see how hard it is
22:39and what goes with it.
22:41That might help him make his choice.
22:44I just hope it scares him into going to college.
22:46I know what I have to do to be where I am.
22:49And it was not an easy road.
22:52And it's still not an easy road.
22:54And Junior needs to see that.
22:56So tomorrow morning, he's going to get a full dose
22:58of what it's like to be Buddy Vlastron.
23:00I'm going to get that fast.
23:15March!
23:20So Junior wants to skip college and come work with me,
23:23but what I'm going to do is show him the reality
23:25of what we really do here.
23:26I want to see if he's got the stamina for this lifestyle.
23:31I got a three-tiered cake that I'm making for a client.
23:34I think it's a great way to test the waters with Junior.
23:37What kind of cake are we making?
23:40I'm going to make a three-tiered cake, okay?
23:43I don't know exactly where I'm going to put these flowers
23:46or how I'm going to put them on,
23:48but we're going to have a array of different pinks on the cake.
23:52We're making roses, peonies, ranunculus,
23:56and I think that this is a good learning curve for Junior
23:59because he'll get a lot of repetition.
24:03Want to learn how to make a rose?
24:05No, I could do a rose.
24:06I've done it before.
24:08Let's go with...
24:10No.
24:10To pipe the perfect buttercream flower,
24:13you need to use the right tip,
24:15and it's all about pressure control
24:18and the way you angle your hand
24:20so that the petals look like they're opening
24:23and it's turning into a beautiful, blossoming flower.
24:26What was my rose?
24:28It's not great.
24:29I feel like that's not that bad.
24:32What was your rose?
24:34Yours is a little better.
24:35Try to make your center higher.
24:37And then your petals come up,
24:39and as you go down, you go...
24:40I know exactly what you're saying.
24:44That just looks horrible.
24:47That looks horrible.
24:48Yeah, it does look pretty bad.
24:51These roses are a lot harder than I look.
24:53I can't get any of these petals right,
24:55and they're all going in the trash.
24:56Let's try this.
24:57Just look at me.
24:59Straight up.
25:01Everything about piping is angling the tip.
25:03It's to pressure, control, and angle it, so...
25:08Okay, this is a squeeze and pull.
25:10Squeeze and pull.
25:13You're going like this.
25:15Angle straight up.
25:16Junior's struggling with pressure and control right now.
25:19So Junior's got to learn how to pipe a bag.
25:22You know, when you've piped for years and years and years,
25:25it comes easy.
25:26How's that one?
25:28Not bad.
25:28Good.
25:29For the next two years.
25:31All right.
25:32Gentle.
25:34Yours wins by a little.
25:36All right.
25:37Now make more.
25:38Keep going.
25:39Practice makes perfect.
25:41Same thing.
25:41Keep doing the same thing.
25:43How many more of these do you want, Dad?
25:45Keep going.
25:46Huh?
25:47Keep going.
25:51That looks pretty good.
25:53Let's get another rack.
25:54We've got to cover the whole cake.
25:56Trust me.
25:57How many more flowers do you actually think you need?
25:59If Buddy asks me one more time how many more flowers,
26:02I'm going to stick the piping bag up his nose.
26:05What now?
26:05More?
26:06Yeah, make another one.
26:08How'd I guess?
26:09You've got to keep making them until your hands fall off.
26:12Yeah, no, my hands hurt.
26:13Oh, okay.
26:16Perseverance.
26:17I said to the flower,
26:19you will not beat me.
26:21I will beat you.
26:22Okay.
26:23So while I got Junior piping flowers,
26:25I got to go talk to my team about the wicked cake.
26:28My brother always were able to restack the cake and support it,
26:32and then they covered it in white modeling chocolate.
26:35This is going to sweat, man.
26:36This is all cold.
26:37No, it's cold in here, though.
26:39Me and Ana sculpted the witch's faces and upper bodies.
26:42Ana made the dragon.
26:46And Liz has got the two-tier cake stacked.
26:49But my main concern is going to be making the dresses.
26:53I got to find a way to make the modeling chocolate look like fabric.
26:56Oh, it is.
26:57Like, they're very big.
27:01Yeah, they're definitely giant ruffles.
27:04So I've been studying Glenda's dress,
27:06and the key is light and airiness and flow.
27:10So it's almost like a drape and pleat all in one.
27:14This is what I'm going to do.
27:15Give me some modeling chocolate,
27:17get it nice and thin,
27:19cut out a circle,
27:20and I did, like, a little pleat
27:24to get, like, a beautiful dollop.
27:26And it gave so much dimension to it.
27:28It wasn't just, like, a flat circle you paste on.
27:31It's going to look good.
27:32I mean, you can tell.
27:34I can tell it's going to look good.
27:35It's just...
27:36I mean, there's a couple different challenges
27:38in getting this dress to look perfect.
27:42All right, one row down.
27:43It's getting them to stick
27:45and then getting the pattern
27:47to really look perfect all the way around.
27:50So we're letting this stick with a little bit of water.
27:53I just wet the modeling chocolate,
27:55and then I gently place it on.
27:58Very nice.
28:00I'm very impressed.
28:01I didn't know you had fashion design in you.
28:05I think I can make a dress out of cake
28:07and someone can wear it.
28:09Just saying.
28:19I'm going to start frigging with...
28:21Right.
28:22So her dress kind of, like,
28:24comes like this, right?
28:26So if we do strips here
28:28and then strips across here.
28:31But when I saw her in the dress,
28:33it seemed more static.
28:35The most challenging part in Elphaba's dress
28:37is the way the patterns go
28:40because it V's out
28:41and then it wraps around.
28:43So you have to coordinate the way
28:45you add kind of the stripes
28:47and it's got to feel fabric-y and light.
28:50Marl, let's go.
28:52Good, so let's start over here.
28:55You're going to cut these in strips.
28:56Oh.
28:57And then we're going to ruffle them on.
28:59Do it with a...
29:00Get a little stick.
29:01And make the rolls?
29:02Yeah.
29:03You want to try this one first?
29:05So basically,
29:05I'm taking some modeling chocolate,
29:07putting it on a lace impression mat,
29:10and shooting it through the sheeter
29:11to really get the texture.
29:14And then I cut it into these strips
29:15and then I fold it
29:17almost like cordial style,
29:18and then I'm just kind of like
29:19opening and closing it
29:21a little more, a little less.
29:23And it really is looking like fabric.
29:28Because it gives it like
29:29a real nice distressed kind of look.
29:32The skirt looks amazing.
29:35It just came out really nicely.
29:36I think we're in good shape.
29:38Good night, Paris.
29:39Good night.
29:39Good night.
29:41This can go terribly wrong right now.
29:48Okay.
29:51We're home.
29:52Everyone's already left for the night.
29:53Perfect.
29:54My hands are about to fall off,
29:56so I'm leaving.
29:59I know my dad's just trying
30:00to push me to the limits,
30:01but maybe after all,
30:02this isn't what I want to do
30:02for the rest of my life.
30:04I'm tired.
30:04Yesterday was horrible,
30:14but I got to show my dad
30:15that a few flowers ain't going to stop me,
30:17and I got to finish this cake.
30:19I'm not surprised that Buddy stuck with it
30:22because he's got that tendency
30:24not to give up.
30:25Now let's look at where we need flowers.
30:27We need something here.
30:28We need some one big one on top.
30:38What do you think?
30:39Uncle D?
30:40Beautiful.
30:41Beautiful.
30:42I'm proud of you.
30:43Thanks, boss man.
30:44Oh, wow.
30:45Is it finally done?
30:47Oh, it looks beautiful.
30:49Let me tell you,
30:50this came out really cute.
30:52Good job, bud.
30:53I'm proud of you.
30:54Mm-hmm.
30:55I still want you to go to college, though.
30:57Yeah, I know.
30:58I'm proud that my son didn't give up.
31:00He persevered,
31:01he turned the switch on,
31:03and he made it happen.
31:04Now that he did that,
31:06I want to take him to the bakery in Hoboken,
31:08and I want him to have a glimpse
31:10of where it all started.
31:11I want him to know
31:12what made me who I am.
31:15Thank you so much.
31:16How are you doing?
31:17With both.
31:18Okay.
31:19Where are you from?
31:20Italy, right?
31:21I know.
31:21Dove say in Italian.
31:22Italia, Venezia.
31:24Bye.
31:25Cha-cha.
31:26Come on in.
31:27Welcome to my church.
31:30I'm going to take you downstairs.
31:32It smells good in here.
31:33How are you doing?
31:35It does smell good.
31:37Oh, man.
31:38I get nostalgic.
31:41Do you know how many times
31:42I walked up and down these steps?
31:43I could hear it.
31:44I could hear the creak in it.
31:45I don't know how many times.
31:47You're going to fall through soon.
31:49My dad worked, you know, tirelessly,
31:52and he wanted to grow the bakery
31:54so that he could have
31:55all his family work in it.
31:56Then we used to have a ramp,
31:58a wheel ramp,
31:59that came down to here.
32:00And then there would be
32:01100 pounds flying down the ramp,
32:03and then you would catch it,
32:04and then you would take it,
32:05and you'd have to stack it.
32:07Ba-boom, ba-boom, ba-boom.
32:08And that became my destiny.
32:10That place was my Harvard education.
32:14Oh, God.
32:15So when I come down here,
32:16I get nostalgic.
32:20This place made me a man, son.
32:23Listen, after my dad died,
32:26I was 17,
32:28and everybody was looking to me
32:30to kind of take this.
32:33And I was a kid.
32:35Just 17.
32:36And I had to say,
32:36no matter what I have to do
32:38to make this work,
32:38I'm going to make this work.
32:40And I didn't care how hard I had to work.
32:42I didn't care what I had to do.
32:44I knew that I had everybody.
32:46It was, you know,
32:47it was my employees.
32:48It was my family.
32:49Everybody was counting on me
32:50to be that guy.
32:52We were doing donuts at the time,
32:54okay?
32:56And we were selling them
32:57for 50 or 75 cents.
32:59The supermarkets were selling them
33:01for like a quarter.
33:03And I started thinking of cakes.
33:06You take this three-tiered cake,
33:08you put fondant on it,
33:09and you can get $1,000 for it.
33:11So what do I do?
33:12I called the guy.
33:13I said,
33:13give me a bucket of that fondant stuff.
33:15I'm going to teach myself
33:15how to do it.
33:17And I got the bucket,
33:19boom, boom, boom, boom.
33:19Did the first one.
33:20It looked like crap.
33:21Took it off, did it again.
33:22Took it off, did it again.
33:24Took it off, did it again.
33:25Took it off, did it again.
33:26So you got it right.
33:26Until I mastered it.
33:28And then I started getting good at it.
33:31And then I started putting
33:32these beautiful cakes in the window.
33:37One day,
33:38a girl stopped by,
33:40and she worked
33:41at Modern Bride magazine.
33:43Mm-hmm.
33:44And she said,
33:45oh my God,
33:46this cake is beautiful.
33:47I'd love to feature it.
33:49And I'll never forget that moment,
33:51because I remember being
33:5315 or 16 with my dad.
34:00And looking at magazines,
34:03and I remember telling him,
34:04Dad, one day,
34:05we're going to be in the magazines.
34:11And all this happened.
34:13And that was the start of it.
34:19And then the business started to change,
34:21and then I started to realize
34:23that I can make...
34:24Oh, sorry.
34:36Missed my dad, you know?
34:41I wish you could have
34:42met him,
34:43he would have loved you.
34:47You know,
34:48he was a great man.
34:50He planted the roots
34:53of who I am.
34:56Maybe I could, uh,
34:57spend a little more time
34:58with you at the factory,
34:59get more ideas in my head
35:02about what I want,
35:03figure things out.
35:04I'd like that, son.
35:05I'd like for you to come
35:06and do more,
35:08and me show you the way.
35:10You can come down this path,
35:13and you can do this.
35:15Or,
35:15you can go to college,
35:16and you can be anything you want.
35:19And the choice is yours.
35:20You were Buddy Valastro.
35:23Like, I'm Buddy Valastro,
35:24and my father before me.
35:26You have greatness in you.
35:28You just have to know how to
35:30turn it on.
35:32All right?
35:33I want Buddy beside me,
35:34and I want to grow something
35:36with my son
35:37that I never got to grow
35:38with my dad.
35:38He died too young,
35:40but I can do it
35:40with my kids.
35:42And this is my father's legacy.
35:43I don't want this to end here.
35:46Come on.
35:46Let's go.
35:47Where are we going?
35:47Let's go.
35:48Upstairs?
35:49Yeah, watch.
35:49Here, listen to the steps.
36:00It's delivery day.
36:01Now we got to add all the details.
36:04The hair,
36:04the clock,
36:05the jewelry,
36:06and the wizard.
36:09Whoops.
36:10Lana is making Glenda's hair.
36:12And I got to tell you,
36:14it is so hard because,
36:16I mean,
36:16the whole head
36:17is a bunch of ringlets.
36:20For Glenda's jewelry,
36:21what we do is
36:22we use different molds,
36:24and we kind of, like,
36:25assemble it on her.
36:27We got to paint
36:28some silver too.
36:30To make Glenda's jewelry pop,
36:32it needs fine details.
36:34And maybe this blue here.
36:35Yeah.
36:36Yeah.
36:36So my plan is to use
36:41a darker blue buttercream
36:42and pipe some, like,
36:44little enhancements
36:45on the jewelry.
36:46So it looks like
36:47little blue jewels.
36:48Aw, so pretty.
36:50It's good, right?
36:51It's amazing.
36:52You know,
36:52I wasn't sure
36:53if I was going to overpipe.
36:55I didn't know
36:55if that was, like,
36:56the right approach,
36:57but I'm so glad I did, I think.
36:59The piping is gorgeous.
37:00So I'm making the topper
37:03for the two-tier cake
37:04that's behind both of the witches.
37:08So I have to do a couple layers
37:10of modeling chocolate
37:11and then metallic
37:12to sort of make it, like,
37:13the beveled logo.
37:18I am going to put the hat brim
37:21on Alphaba.
37:23And this can also be
37:24a little bit exciting
37:25because frequently
37:27that involves sawing off
37:30some of the back of her head.
37:32Alphaba's hat
37:33is really, like,
37:34a dark blue
37:35and at the tip
37:36is a little crooked.
37:38And these are, like,
37:39the little extras
37:40that people will never forget.
37:43It looks great.
37:44At this point,
37:45we got about an hour
37:46before we got to get
37:47this cake to New York City.
37:48I need to do
37:49a little bit of airbrushing
37:50on her
37:50and I need to paint her face.
37:52And the other one
37:53I airbrushed already,
37:54I just need to
37:56paint the face on.
37:57I hope she has eyes.
38:01But then the whole
38:02bubble thing
38:02is just weird.
38:03I'll just paint the eyes
38:04completely black.
38:07That's a little
38:08too goth for me.
38:09You know,
38:09maybe she had a goth face
38:10in her, you know,
38:11in her when she was
38:12growing up,
38:13but I don't know.
38:15Anytime that you're doing
38:16in person,
38:17the face is the focal point
38:19and it's the thing
38:20that the viewer
38:21is going to relate
38:22to the most.
38:23Don't you put
38:24two diamonds in her eye?
38:25Uh-huh.
38:26It's so when we're
38:27under studio lights,
38:28it makes it look
38:29like her eyes are wet
38:30and also like
38:31they're following.
38:33It's an optical illusion.
38:35Very nice.
38:40It's delivery day.
38:42Now that we got
38:43the witches
38:43pretty much done,
38:44we can focus
38:45on the details
38:45of the two-tiered cake.
38:47You're better off
38:47doing this in fondant.
38:49When I saw the set,
38:51I thought it was
38:52so detailed,
38:53so I want to add
38:54some like filigrees
38:55and some like
38:56heavy molds,
38:57almost like,
38:58you know,
38:58old world theater feel.
39:05Want to give me
39:06a couple more?
39:08It looks great.
39:10Like, I'm,
39:11it feels very bright.
39:13Stepping back
39:13and looking at this cake,
39:15it's one of the best
39:15we ever did.
39:16My standard,
39:17left, right?
39:19Yeah,
39:20I think you're all right.
39:22This,
39:26this goes in one of our-
39:27Right in your photo library.
39:29I'm a little worried
39:30about transportation,
39:31but if we get it there,
39:33I think they're going
39:33to be very happy.
39:34All right, guys,
39:35great job.
39:36Now let's take this
39:37cake to Broadway.
39:40How comes the scary part?
39:42We got to get this puppy
39:43in the back of a truck.
39:44Watch the top,
39:45watch the top.
39:46We got to strap this down
39:50from all four corners
39:51so it doesn't rock much.
39:55Close the door
39:56and then do the sign
39:57of the cross
39:58and bring it to the theater.
40:00Who do you want to drive in?
40:01You're going to drive,
40:02you and June.
40:03I remember the first
40:04cake I took.
40:05When I got there,
40:06the basketball fell
40:08through the hoop
40:09onto the cake.
40:11Just take your time.
40:12We're not in a rush.
40:13We got plenty of time.
40:20Ooh, you made it.
40:25New York City.
40:29Hope this cake made it.
40:31All heads better
40:32be in check, man.
40:33That buddy ripped me
40:34an ass on a new one.
40:43Did it get here all right?
40:45The cake was perfect
40:46when it left the factory.
40:48I just hope it gets here
40:49in one piece.
40:50Are you sure?
40:57Ready?
41:00Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
41:03Piece of cake.
41:04We're going to have to,
41:04yeah, turn it.
41:06Easy.
41:08A little more.
41:09Okay, easy, easy.
41:10Go down.
41:10Go down.
41:12It's going to go.
41:14We're going to go.
41:15It's going to go.
41:16Easy.
41:20Oh, shoot.
41:20We got to go up there.
41:22All right.
41:23Oh, my God.
41:23Yeah, no,
41:23it is a little steep, guys.
41:25Oh, that's a lot of steep.
41:26Here you go up the ramp.
41:27Whatever you want to.
41:27You're going to get the back,
41:28you know.
41:29There you go.
41:29Two hands.
41:30Easy, guys.
41:30Nice and easy.
41:31Easy, easy.
41:32Does it?
41:34Whoa, whoa, whoa.
41:35In the back.
41:35It's tipping.
41:36Go back.
41:37We're going to lift it.
41:37We're going to lift it.
41:38It's easier.
41:39There's just certain times
41:40where you got to just man up
41:41to lift a thousand pound cake.
41:43One, two, three.
41:44Up.
41:45Okay.
41:46Up.
41:47Wait, wait, wait.
41:48Up higher.
41:48Up higher.
41:49So we have a very special surprise
41:52to celebrate all of the hard work
41:54that we have all done
41:56for 20 years of Wicked on Broadway.
41:58Mm-hmm.
41:59You ready?
42:00Ready?
42:02Bring it on out, buddy!
42:03Oh, my God!
42:06Oh, my God!
42:08Oh, my God!
42:11Oh, my God!
42:13Oh, my God!
42:14That is cake!
42:15It's huge!
42:17Look at the lace on the dress.
42:19The cake is really magical.
42:22The textures on the cake
42:24are really fascinating.
42:25The detail work is phenomenal.
42:27I can barely make a muffin, so...
42:29We had so much fun
42:35making this cake for you guys.
42:36I mean, 20 years on Broadway.
42:38What a huge accomplishment.
42:42We really built this family together,
42:44so it was so nice
42:45to get to celebrate
42:46with such an incredible cast
42:48that's worked so hard for so long.
42:50Here's to another 20 years of Wicked!
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