Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Cake Boss

Cake Boss Postview: Motorcycles, Manhattanites & Misbehaving

By Amy Sara Clark/The Jersey Journal

December 15, 2009, 1:02AM
Cake-Boss-Photo-TLC-rolling-pin-Carlos.jpgBuddy "Cake Boss" Valastro and the "crew" outside Carlo's Bakery in Hoboken.
On tonight's episode of "Cake Boss," Hoboken's own Buddy Valastro gets yelled at by his mother for riding a motorcycle.

He was riding the bike because a bunch of Hell's Angels members came and asked him to make a cake and of course he made one with a 4-foot motorcycle on top.

This motorcycle brings me to a concern that's been brewing for awhile: I'm not sure pipes and wood covered with rice crispy treats really count as cake. Granted, the bikers ate the base cake, which looked very good.

But the bike at the top? Really it was just a model. Who wants to eat a bunch of rice crispy treats covered with modeling chocolate?

My husband, who joined me for the episode thanks to the Hell's Angel's theme (he's gotten very into "Sons of Anarchy," an FX series about bikers), had another concern about the motorcycle. He thought the wheels looked too small.

“That looks like a scooter," he said. "If I were a Hell’s Angel, I would not be pleased.”

But the bikers seemed pretty pleased so Buddy made it out of Long Island intact.

The other cake of the week was a giant tea pot and tea cups for a Manhattan "socialite's" tea party.

First of all, the cake looked like it would feed 40; the party was for 10. Second of all, those girls were so thin, who knows if they ate any of it.

So why did the socialite get the cake?

Either she desperately wanted to be on a reality show or she thought the cake would make a splash. Well she got both.

Which brings me to another question. Does everyone, these days, who orders a specialty cake at Carlo's Bakery, hope to get on reality television? And if so, does that mean the Hell's Angel's were trying to get publicity?

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