Cake Boss — Season 1, Episode 1: A Bride, a Boat, and Bamboozled!

Episode synopsis

Meet award-winning pastry chef and cake decorator Buddy Valastro and his over-the-top family at Carlo's Bakery in Hoboken, New Jersey. After beginning a week completely jam-packed with cake orders, Buddy gets a call from a customer he cannot possibly turn down. Brides Magazine is offering Buddy an inside cover photo spread but he's going to have to create a cake unlike any he's ever done before. Between arguing with his family, producing the standard 300-plus cakes the bakery makes in any given week and running out of sugar, is there any way Buddy and Company are going to get this opportunity of a lifetime cake done in time? All the while Buddy's sisters are planning to throw their brother a surprise birthday party.

About Cake Boss

Follows the operations of Carlo's Bakery, a family-owned business in Hoboken, New Jersey owned and operated by siblings Buddy Valastro, Lisa Valastro, Maddalena Castano, Grace Faugno and Mary Sciarrone. The show focuses on how they make their cakes, and the interpersonal relationships among the various family members and other employees who work at the shop.

More episodes from Season 1

• E2A Fire, a Fashionista, and Family
• E3Bunny, Birthday, and Burnt Food
• E4Weddings, Water, and Wacked!
• E5Bi-Plane, Bridezilla, and Busting Buddy
• E6Undead, Unclothed, and Unhappy Mama
• E7Doves, Ducks, and Delicacies
• E8Museum, Mistakes, and Mother Mary
• E9Soldiers, Sand, and Salad
• E10Chinese Culture and Cannolis
• E11A Blindfold, a Bikini and Breathing Fire
• E12Leaning, Lobsters and Lectures
• E13Fireworks, Falling Fondant and Fathers