About this season
Ace of Cakes is an American reality television show that aired on the Food Network. The show focused on the daily operations of Duff Goldman's custom cake shop, Charm City Cakes, in Baltimore, Maryland; including small-business ownership, working with various vendors, tasting with customers, constructing cakes, and delivering his products.
Episodes (13)
1. Fire Fighters and Fire Breathers
Aired 15 January 2009 • 30 min
The bakery is all fired up when they make a special cake for a firefighting contest and a giant fire breathing dragon.
2. Snow Boards and Cupcakes
Aired 22 January 2009 • 30 min
The bakery has never had good luck with cupcakes and this week is no different. Meanwhile, Duff tries his hand at a snowboarding cake.
3. Tiki Time
Aired 29 January 2009 • 30 min
The crew has a variety of cakes this week: a tiki wedding cake, a couch potato and a horse cake with a pattern.
4. Food, Fashion & Galactic Bounty Hunters
Aired 5 February 2009 • 30 min
Duff builds a whisk and shoes for charities. Plus, a Star Wars cake is a lot of fun.
5. Macy's and the Big Apple
Aired 12 February 2009 • 30 min
It's all about New York as Charm City helps Macy's celebrate. Also, a petting zoo needs a cowboy cake.
6. King of Charm City
Aired 5 March 2009 • 30 min
The TV show, King of the Hill orders a barbecue grill. The team makes a school locker for a teen. And, Du Pont Circle from D.C. is recreated in cake.
7. Ghouls, Ghosts, and Chocolate
Aired 12 March 2009 • 30 min
This week's cakes include a giant chocolate bar, a haunted chapel complete with zombies, and a Great Pumpkin cake.
8. What's Up Cookie?
Aired 19 March 2009 • 30 min
Girl scouts, office chairs and plantation houses feature prominently in this week's cakes.
9. I Do!
Aired 26 March 2009 • 30 min
There's a wide range events tonight, as Duff and his crew build an anesthesia machine out of cake, channel Edgar Allen Poe, and help a client who chooses Charm City and a fortune cookie cake to propose – a first for the building.
10. The Eagle Has Landed
Aired 2 April 2009 • 30 min
Charm City Cakes' latest assignment includes the Philadelphia Eagles' mascot who may or may not be an asset. Elsewhere, a Nikon camera cake is perfected, and everyone attends a benefit for the Make a Wish Foundation.
11. Demolition Cakes
Aired 9 April 2009 • 30 min
There are bridal cakes galore and a Christmas stocking cake tonight, but the biggest challenge is a cake made to look like a house mid-destruction.
12. Bobble Head Bakery
Aired 16 April 2009 • 30 min
Duff's team goes international with a cake based on a beloved French children's book, a birthday cake inspired by Antartica, and a tricky one that recreates a bobble head pitcher from American baseball.
13. Lost in Hawaii
Aired 9 May 2009 • 30 min
Duff and the Charm City Cakes team head to Hawaii when one of the actors from ABC's Lost orders an unusual cake to commemorate the show's 100th episode.