- Hi, I'm Buddy Valastro, the Cake Boss.
And I'm so excited to introduce you guys
to the newest member of
the Carlo's Bakery familia.
Come on in here, Gigi.
- Buddy!
- Hey! Nice to meet you finally.
- I'm your biggest fan,
I've been watching you my whole childhood, I'm going to cry.
It means the world to meet you and to be here,
and I've been waiting for my summer internship
for like my whole life.
- I am a huge fan of you
and I'm so excited to have you finally at my factory here
so that we can do some baking.
(groovy music)
- All right so, Buddy,
what is my first mission as your summer intern?
- Okay. So I gave us two blank canvas cakes here,
and we're just going to have some fun.
We're going to do some, you know, maybe some pipe flowers.
Maybe we can put some molded flowers.
We're going to have a lot of fun, but,
before we start, I mean, you look great,
but I think you need something a little...
Wait, I'll be right back
- Official.
- Oh my goodness.
- You got an official chef coat.
- I'm Honored. I'm putting it on right now.
- This is yours.
Get you in. Let me just get your hair out.
- Thank you.
- You got it.
- All right. Now it's a little big, it's mine, so-
- It's okay. It's perfect. Okay, let's do it.
- So first things first, I want to make a little room here.
- All right. Are these the sugar flowers?
- Those are sugar flowers, which we can make.
We have some of these little rose nails, right?
- We'll try doing this one. This one's a full.
- Also I find like frosting videos on Instagram
to be very soothing.
- Yeah, no, no, totally. Well, listen,
you tell me what you want to learn and I'll teach you.
- I want to learn everything there is to know,
but we don't have time for that today, so.
- Okay. So now I did like a little cone, right?
So now we're going to come on with this.
This is a Lily of a valley tip.
- Okay.
- And I'm just going to go up, but at the end,
I just kind of like try to flick my wrist.
Yep, That's it. A little higher, a little bit more.
And now you're just going to pull lines up
and let them- yep, you're good!
You're good here! I like it.
So now again, if we wanted to,
we would never be able to put this on a cake like this.
- Oh my God, they're terrible.
- No, that's not.
No, no, no. That's all right.
There's nothing in cake decorating that we can't fix.
That's what my dad used to tell me.
- Cute.
- This is a high level piping flower technique.
This is not bad.
All right? Look at it. It looks beautiful.
- Thank you!
- It looks good.
- Not next to yours, we'll just keep mine-
- No no no no. It looks really good.
Okay. So now we gotta do a rose, right?
- We gotta do a rose.
- I'll do one and then you start.
So you keep going around.
So you keep it in the same position down
and squeeze until you get around.
You're doing it backwards, spin the other way.
You got it. You're good, you're good.
Okay, now it's good. Now stop.
Okay, now angle it out a little bit.
- Wow. Okay. So now I need to angle more.
- Yup, and you're good. You're just building.
That looks pretty good, Gi.
- Thank you, Bud.
- Did you get my really good rose though?
It was good though, you saw it right?
It was great. All right. Round two.
(groovy music)
So we got our pipe flowers, right?
- Yes. And I have my shirt buttoned down.
I'm past the flower training-
oh no, we still have more training.
- So we're going to do some painted flowers,
cause I know you love to paint.
- I do.
- Cake decorating to me is different than baking.
Cause this is more of a creative art.
Baking is more of a scientific formula
that you know, you have to have fun with.
But I like to bake anything.
I mean, I just feel like there's a sense of satisfaction.
The thing that I like probably the most is my lobster tails,
because it's such a hard thing to do.
And I had a lot of fun learning it with my dad years ago
and it's our top-selling pastry.
I mean, honestly Gi, if I was going to the electric chair,
that would be the one that put you over the top.
- My Oma, my grandma on my mom's side
was at our farm with us a few summers ago,
and it was her last birthday that she had
and I baked her a carrot cake,
and I just did like a simple white
with like yellow daisies piped all over it.
And she said it was the best cake she ever had in her life.
So I don't know if it's the most complex-ly decorated one,
but it was the most meaningful.
- Alright Gigi, your training wheels are off.
You're doing a great job.
Well, let's decorate these cakes.
- Okay. Let's do it.
- All right, let's do it.
(groovy music)
- I'm just gonna do what I feel, because if I overthink it
then obviously I'm going to be nervous.
So I'm just going to pretend that it's a normal day
baking without Buddy next to me.
- Well, it is a normal day.
- It is. Just another day at the office.
- When I found out that you were a fan,
I was like honored. You know, it really was.
And then we got a call and you know,
the fact that we were able to make that cake for you
really touched my heart.
- It was the coolest cake ever, and it was a surprise.
And no one at the time knew I was pregnant,
when my first big pregnancy craving was bagels,
I ate like a bagel every single day, an everything bagel.
So first I was just like shocked and blown away
by how beautiful it was.
And then my friend literally goes, "Buddy made it",
and I burst out into tears.
I am an emotional person,
but not over, like, people that I watch on TV.
- Which late night were you on?
And you did the whole "I'm Buddy and I'm the boss"
like my intro?
- Oh, Fallon?
- Yeah, you were on Fallon,
and you were doing the whole thing, and I was like
"you gotta be kidding me!"
- "I'm Buddy and I'm the boss."
- "This is Carlo's bakery."
- "Carlo's Bakery,
every day, thousands of cakes and pastries
goes out these doors."
- "This is the crew."
- "This is the crew, Mia Familia."
- "They call me Buddy."
- "I'm the boss."
- You know it.
- So give me a rundown of the family holiday.
- So we usually have conversations throughout the week,
like who's making what.
- Got it.
- And then we spend most of the day cooking
either together or, I mean,
everyone lives pretty close on the farm.
So it's like together, but separate.
And then we come together, we eat, play games.
- Well you know, you gotta invite me
over to the farm to cook.
- We would love to.
- I'll come there and we'll do some good cooking.
- That would be awesome.
- You're doing good.
That was the next thing I was going to do.
I'm going to let you connect the dots on mine, I think.
- Okay, cool.
- You're going to do mine.
- I am loving this. I feel like it's coming together.
I'm still, I feel like, finding my style,
but we're getting there.
- I think that she's doing amazing.
I love she's moved on to brushed embroidery,
which is like high, high levels,
so she's doing great. I'd be honest with you.
I'm a little, I'm a little disappointed
because we're both so into our cakes,
I want to like, just sit down and talk.
Like, have a conversation.
But the thing is, people don't realize this
and you know what the funniest is, and again, you know,
you've done a lot of television.
You go to a morning show, right?
You're going to do an interview.
Well, when I gotta do an interview, they're like,
"all right, so we want you to decorate a cake and-"
- "Answer these 17 questions while you're doing it."
- And this is the bullet point.
I'll never forget it was Halloween,
and I was on the Today Show.
I did a whole Star Wars theme,
and it had these two Ewoks,
they were all like cracked out and bothering me,
and I was trying to concentrate on the cake
and it was like early in my career.
And I'm trying to be like, what the hell am I-
I like, I didn't know what to do.
It was so funny.
But when you got to decorate and talk, it's very hard.
People don't realize that you're at peace.
Like I can see it in you right now.
I can see that you're in the zone.
(peaceful music)
- I love it!
You're doing good, right?
- It's the best!
(groovy music)
- My most memorable cake,
I have two that really stand out to me.
The first one was the Transformer cake.
Because that was my favorite cake that I've ever made.
- Yeah.
- And I've only cried twice in my life about cake.
- Yeah.
- Transformers was one.
- Okay.
- And this last season of Buddy vs Duff.
- Yeah.
- Our finale cake.
- What was it again?
- It was like this nuclear dinosaur.
- Oh yeah, I was going to say dinosaur.
- I just couldn't believe we were able to do it.
But the most memorable cake for me,
was the life-size sculpture of my wife.
- Oh my God, yeah.
- You remember that one?
- Yeah, yeah.
I feel like this was an earlier season,
but I don't know why, it just popped up in my mind,
but the fire station.
- Yeah.
- And it was like fully lit up and smoking the building.
- We're going to have you on an episode of Cake Boss.
- I would love and die too. And also if you ever, like,
I don't know, if you and Duff
do like a special guest episode.
- Done.
- Where you can't use a baker.
- Yep. Done deal.
You're going to be on my team. You got to be Team Buddy.
I won't tell Duff.
- Obviously.
Oh, you're doing leaves.
- I'm going to do leaves as my board,
if you want to do leaves too, you could.
- That's okay. I'm going to do this.
I don't know what this is, but I'm doing it.
- Lily of the Valley?
- Oh, what I did before.
- So, watch this, I'm gonna drop it on the cake.
So you let it be squeezed, you let it hang.
- Cute. Okay, so how do I do it as a border?
- As a border? No good.
- Oh, that one's for the border.
- We want this color. I'll put a different tip.
This is a good one.
Do you want to do a shell or do you want to do a job?
So a shell is like this.
- Okay, I like that. That's cute. I can do that.
Okay. I can't do it that speed then.
- Hey listen, I'm not just saying it,
but you're doing an amazing job.
We've got all summer.
- This is just day one.
- It's day one, don't you worry about it.
- You guys have a nursery in this place? A play room.
Harper's is my last cover before I quit my job forever.
Love.
- I gotta say, pretty damn good.
I think you did a great job. I love it.
Give me a hug!
- This is the best day ever.
- Congratulations on that cover. Boom!
That's how you do it Hoboken style.
- Bucket list!