List of Ace of Cakes episodes
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This is a list of the episodes of the Ace of Cakes series.
| Season | Eps. | Originally aired |
Prod. line |
DVD release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USA | ||||
| 1 | 6 | 2006 – 2007 | August 28, 2007 | |
| 2 | 13 | 2007 – 2008 | TBA | |
| 3 | 13 | 2007 – 2008 | TBA | |
| 4 | 13 | 2008 | TBA |
| Season | Episode Number | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DB0101 | Triple Crown Cake | Chef Duff Goldman and his Charm City Cakes team are introduced. The staff must produce 21 cakes in a week, including a special cake for the Preakness Stakes horse race. Other featured cakes are a jeep cake by Geof, and a cake Duff creates for a college friend's wedding. Other cakes are an Xbox cake, a fish cake, a dentist cake, a crazy pink-and-black cake, and several wedding cakes. |
| 1 | DB0102 | Hell Week | Hell week is the busiest week of summer: 24 cakes in 7 days, including several wedding cakes for Memorial Day weekend. Primary cakes are a tequila-bottle cake for two girls graduating from Goucher College, a replica of a German shepherd for a groom's cake, a four-tier deconstructed wedding cake for two men, and an elaborate four-tier wedding cake in which each tier represents a snapshot from a couple's vacations. |
| 1 | DB0103 | Wedding Cakes and Headaches | The episode's cakes include a four-tier wedding cake imitating the style of Aubrey Beardsley, a cake shaped like a vintage hat for a woman's surprise 80th birthday party, a massive wedding cake accompanied by 300 eight-layer cookies, and a surprise birthday cake for Duff's father, coming into town from Florida. |
| 1 | DB0104 | Life's a Zoo | Duff makes a pair of flamingo cakes for Zoomerang, the annual benefit gala for Maryland Zoo. Geof invents rice-krispie cannoli for the flamingos beaks. Duff collaborates with old friend Warren Brown of Sugar Rush when a D.C. couple orders a Capitol dome-shaped cake to sit atop a cupcake tower. Also featured is a flaming Fist of Rock groom's cake for a heavy metal-loving groom. |
| 1 | DB0105 | Duff Goes Hollywood | Duff gives cake-decorating lessons to a local troop of Brownies. The staff makes a bushel barrel of crabs, with ears of corn around the base, consisting of modeling chocolate and sugar. Duff appears on the Tonight Show with a birthday cake for Jay Leno; Duff and Geof are forced to make the cake in their Los Angeles hotel room, with the help of Mike McCary of Food Network Challenge. While in Los Angeles, Duff uses his power-tool skills on a Habitat for Humanity home, realizing a childhood dream at the Guitar Center on Sunset Boulevard where he plays a bass once belonged to Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. |
| 1 | DB0106 | Cake Walk | An engaged couple has ordered a cake for each table in the shape of a bumper car. The Maryland Science Center receives a birthday cake in the shape of a dinosaur blowing out candles. The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, gets two cakes for the grand opening of a new building: a peach-tree cake, combining cake and metal sculpture, and a mendhi cake with intricate piping. |
| 2 | DB0201 | Chi-Town and Wedding Gowns | Duff and Geof build a replica of Wrigley Field for a man's 80th birthday, and Duff drives 11 hours to deliver the cake. Richard creates a 10-point buck groom's cake for an avid hunter. Two of Mary Alice's friends are getting married and their cakes get special attention. |
| 2 | DB0202 | The Boss Is Gone | Duff is out of town and Mary Alice is left to juggle crazy phone calls and e-mails. She tries her hand at repairing a cake. |
| 2 | DB0203 | Four Weddings And A Rat | Two women marrying want to mix the traditional and non-traditional in their cakes; one is a flowery, four-tier affair, the other a Baltimore icon — a large rat on a city manhole cover. Erica, a part-time decorator, is getting married and has ordered a wedding cake consisting of pair of owls perched on a branch. Another bride and groom celebrate their different cultures in their cakes: a Thai pagoda for her and a replica of the Brooklyn Bridge for the groom. |
| 2 | DB0204 | Great Scot | Duff dons a kilt to deliver a cow cake to a Scottish wedding. Other cakes include a "sweet sixteen" cake, a magnolia-themed cake that poses major problems for the Charm City staff, and a cake ordered by a nervous customer who plans to use it to propose to his girlfriend by placing the engagement ring directly on the cake. |
| 2 | DB0205 | Monkey Business | First is a $2000 King Kong bar mitzvah cake. Then a replica of the Overseas Houston, a giant tanker, being christened in Chesterfield, Pa. The shipping company also ordered a champagne bottle made out of a cookie to christen the cake ship. Also, a woman is surprising her DJ groom-to-be with a cake that looks like his beloved Technics turntable. |
| 2 | DB0206 | Tributes and Tribulations | Howard County Fire and Rescue is hosting its annual flag football charity event, and the Fire Department of New York is sending a team for the first time since 9/11. Howard County has ordered a fire-truck cake with a special 9/11 flag suspended from the back. Also, the Olney Theater Group wants a replica of Cinderella's carriage; a three-tier sushi cake is made; and a woman planning a wedding surprises her mother, a fanatic for all things Egyptian, with a birthday cake that looks like an Egyptian cat statue with heiroglyphics. |
| 2 | DB0207 | Flying High | Geof tackles a groom's cake in the shape of the Olympic ski slope in Innsbruck, Austria, with the bride and groom skiing down the mountain. A surprise cake is created for a man who has received his pilot's license; his wife orders a cake in the shape of a Cessna 172 airplane. Fluid Movement is putting on Glitterama, the annual winter community-theater talent-show fund-raiser, and Duff plans a version of the Dance of the Seven Veils. |
| 2 | DB0208 | Milestones and Monuments | Duff and Geof make a cake in the shape of a pile of tennis balls for Martina Navratilova's 50th birthday. Duff has been asked to emcee Baltimore's annual holiday tree-lighting ceremony with the mayor, so Geof and Duff create a replica of Baltimore's Washington Monument including fireworks Duff will light off. Duff also makes a cake as a surprise for the 40th wedding anniversary of his college friend's parents, whom he considers his surrogate Jewish parents in Baltimore. |
| 2 | DB0209 | Cake-Tastrophe | Duff and his team have been brought in by Starbucks to make a special holiday cake at Union Station in Washington, DC. After days of work, they create a train that looks like it is made of gingerbread. Also featured is a girl's 16th-birthday goth cake, complete with skulls and spiders. Charm City has been invited to make three massive cakes for a man's "Big Fat Greek Birthday." One of the cakes represents an old theater with It's a Wonderful Life on the marquee; another has a girl sipping a soda at a soda fountain. |
| 2 | DB0210 | Shell Shocked | Becky Smith is graduating and has ordered a cake from Charm City Cakes for her big party. |
| 2 | DB0211 | Dr. Duff | The team has been enlisted by a radiology company to create a cake in the shape of a CT scanner, complete with a patient inside. |
| 2 | DB0212 | Playing Games | Charm City makes a cake in the shape of a Scrabble board for a client's mother. |
| 2 | DB0213 | The Super Cake | Duff goes to Miami to make a cake for the National Football League's Super Bowl party. It is the largest cake Charm City has made. |
| 3 | DB0301 | Wedding Bells and Shotgun Shells | One of the bakery's very own is getting hitched. Duff and the staff are heading off to a firing range to do a little target practice. |
| 3 | DB0302 | Tattoos and Traditions | Duff takes the staff on a field trip to a tattoo museum and the staff works on cakes including a duck hunt, frogs and lily pads and an EMT armadillo. |
| 3 | DB0303 | Mary (Alice) Go Round | Duff and the crew make a carousel cake with a special touch from Geoff for Asbury Park's 110th anniversary. |
| 3 | DB0304 | Challenge Road Trip | Duff, Geoff, and Mary Alice head to Denver to be celebrity judges for one of the Food Network's Extreme Cake Challenges. |
| 3 | DB0305 | Wishes Granted | It's all about the kids this week at Charm City Cakes. Duff makes a little girl's wish come true. |
| 3 | DB0306 | Rock & Roll | Duff and his crew design special cakes for the Armed Forces Foundation Gala. They also make a cake for the band Clutch. |
| 3 | DB0307 | Stadium Games and Eating Brains | Two stadium cakes must be delivered this weekend. The first is a groom's cake in the shape of Camden Yards. The other, due the next day, is a replica of Raven Stadium with NCAA lacrosse players on the field. |
| 3 | DB0308 | Battleships and Birthdays | Tom Clancy wants a birthday cake in the shape of the Tower of London to honor the fact that Clancy is the only American Beefeater. Duff's roommate from freshmen year is getting married, and Duff is making his wedding cake, a four-tier asymmetric cake with a Chesapeake Bay theme. Charm City Cakes is also Philadelphia bound; Helena has enlisted Duff and his crew to make an exact replica of the King Tut sarcophogus out of cake. |
| 3 | DB0309 | Charm and Charities | Duff has signed on to do another cake for Zoomerang, which is the Baltimore Maryland Zoo's big gala fundraising event. A Night at the Wire is a huge charity event thrown by the HBO show The Wire, and Duff donates a cake for the party. |
| 3 | DB0310 | Uncle Sam Wants Duff | It's the Army's birthday and their doing it up: they've asked Duff to make a special tank cake for a big pre-game presentation with a four-star general and the managers of the Orioles and Nationals. |
| 3 | DB0311 | Coach Duff | Cake for Carmelo Anthony, musician's cake and a replica of the USS Carney. |
| 3 | DB0312 | Charm City Christmas | Radio City Music Hall cake. |
| 3 | DB0313 | Hairspray Premiere | Hairspray cake. John Waters interview. "Operation" game cake. |
| 4 | DB0401 | The Harry Potter Cake | Duff, Anna, and Ben travel to Hollywood for the Los Angeles premiere of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. In La, the complete construction of massivel scaled edible replica of Hogwarts castle as seen in the film. The cake was on display at the official Warner Bros. premiere party, and featured appearance from Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint. |
| 4 | DB0402 | Volcano Cakes and Mix Tapes | A celebrity softball game, a moonbounce cake, and a volcano cake. |
| 4 | DB0403 | Mascots and Mice | Georgetown mascot cake. |
| 4 | DB0404 | Airplanes and Arks | Noah's Ark Bat Mitzvah. Delta Air airliner. Subway car. |
| 4 | DB0405 | The Spy Who Caked Me | Sir Roger Moore's 80th Birthday cake. Exorcist cake. (Note: Two different cakes.) |
| 4 | DB0406 | Wedding Week | A zany, madcap week featuring a cast of wacky cakebuilding fiends. Hey, that's not fondant! |
| 4 | DB0407 | Skaters and Speedsters | The crew makes cakes for All Pro skater and skate board designer Kris Markovich's surprise birthday, a four-tier fall season wedding cake, an "over-the-top" cute baby shower cake and a replica of Geof's childhood neighbor's 365 Porsche Speedster. |
| 4 | DB0408 | Celebration Week | Ear cake. Clock tower cake. |
| 4 | DB0409 | Police Cars and Wine Bars | Police cruiser cake. Yarn cake. Harley Davidson cake. Book 'em, Duffo! |
| 4 | DB0410 | Avenue Q Cake | "You can be loud as the hell you want when you're making cake." |
| 4 | DB0411 | Duff's Birthday | Scrapple showdown. Duff's birthday cake. |
| 4 | DB0412 | Skate Rattle and Roll | Roller skate cake; Geof makes a Corvette cake after test driving a real one; manatee family. |
