- Here we go, three, two, one!
and without further ado, who wants to see
a giant, dog shaped, dog cake?
(audience woos) - Yeah!
(Chinese festival music)
- [Audience Member] Wow.
- [Woman] A little bit more. You wanna to lick the bowl?
I can't so.
- [Rocky] Hey, I'm Rocky Kanaka and I am proud to say
that I am a pet chef.
My team and I make thousands and thousands
of dog cakes a year out of my source "The Dog Bakery"
and we ship them all over the nation.
I don't know if you know it,
but this year is year of the dog
and we were challenged to make a giant dog cake.
So when my team came to me
and asked me how to make this dog cake,
frankly I had some concerns
and knew this was not going to be easy.
How do you think the process is going so far?
- I think it's going great. - I think we're gonna nail it.
- [Rocky] I was asking Ume. (laughter)
Okay, so this is the paws, Kelly and Ume
really brought together and the nose.
I'm working on the eyes right now.
I wanted to make the eyes much bigger.
Okay I'm making the eye colors and the blue is too bright
so I'm mixing the black in there.
(electronic music)
How does that look? Does that look like eyes?
- [Kelly] I almost feel like the blue could have been,
- [Rocky] Brighter? Cause you can't tell?
- [Kelly] Yeah, cause it looks like
it's just two pieces of black.
- Alright. I think I made my blue too dark
and so you can't really see the black from the blue.
Okay so what are you doing here Kel?
- Um this is the ear, one of the ears.
- [Rocky] Okay.
- And we don't have that much brown so we're doing white
and then just covering it with brown.
Okay I put a little bit less of the black in it this time,
so I think I've got the color right now.
(upbeat electronic music)
Better yeah? - Oh yeah!
- Yeah...Yeah! - Yeah!
- Yeah Matt give me a high five!
(laughter)
Okay I'm working on the tongue.
I don't know if that's pink enough.
That's right, I think it's probably about right.
(laughter) This pink is a little too real.
- Right here? - Yeah.
(up beat electronic music)
What do you think, should we make this kinda like?
- Yeah, Yup. - Yeah.
- [Rocky] Yeah perfect. Awesome.
Show us here real quick.
- It's all the brown that we have.
(laughter) - [Rocky] And that's a tail?
So, the tail is, uh...fooling us.
I'm going to engineer something. I just don't know what yet.
I don't know if you guys can see it,
but check out the bone stamps that we put on there.
Guys when you're building a dog shaped cake,
it's the details that make it.
Okay we're getting close to being done.
I am really excited about how this is coming together.
I always knew that it would,
I had no doubts at all, no concerns.
- [Kelly] Uh huh, yeah sure. (laughter)
- But I wanna do a final touch.
We're gonna close out tonight and then come back
and we still have to transport this thing
over to the other store, which is really scaring me,
but I thought I'd take this little paw cake
if his tongue's hanging out and just set it right there.
That's kinda cute, huh?
- [Kelly] Really cute.
- Look at that, look at that.
I mean that's, look at that, this is awesome.
(synth music)
Okay, day two. We're getting ready to load
the cake into the car.
This is probably the part that I'm most nervous about.
Lots of stop lights and breaking and try to get this cake
not to completely fall apart. Let's get this started!
(men straining)
- [Kelly] How heavy is it?
- It's pretty heavy.
(synth music)
How's it doing back there Kel?
- [Kelly] I think it's okay.
- I think uh...we'll see.
Hold on...Okay.
- [Kid] What? Whoa!
(synth music)
- What is the purpose of a giant dog cake for dogs?
Well it's to celebrate year of the dog,
but this event that we're making this cake for
is just going to be over the top.
I mean awesome, like multiple rescues there,
they've got all kinds of celebrations
and it's gonna be crazy, but the pinnacle of everything
is the reveal of this cake.
It's really difficult making a cake specific for dogs,
because there is a lot of things that you can't use
that you would normally use in a cake
that make it a lot easier to form it.
So, I hope we have enough time cause this thing
just takes time.
But this is by far, the heaviest cake, hundreds of pounds,
the biggest cake, the most 3D dog cake
that has ever been built.
Okay, what are you doing, piping around?
- Yeah I'm just getting the edges right now.
- Woop! Last night we couldn't get the tail right
it just looked funny.
There's an important part because we have to have
the tail up so it's wagging,
so you think it's a happy dog cake.
- [Rocky] That looks like a wag doesn't it?
So it's got one wire in there but I'm gonna try to.
(wire snaps) Ow!
- You okay? - Yeah.
- [Rocky] How's that look? - [Ume] Not good.
- [Rocky] Put it back. Okay I think that spot looks okay,
but where, what do I--
- [Kelly] So come look at it from this side,
because this is the front.
- [Rocky] Yeah it's better than I thought.
(drums and synth music)
Okay I think we're gonna do it again,
because we're a little too close on the letters.
Okay, take number two. Nailed it.
(Drums)
(sprinkling)
We put a lot of hours into this so far.
It's been, if hours combined so far,
have been like, almost 30 hours.
So, the big day is tomorrow.
(whispering and laughter)
- I know. - What?
- said, "you look like a giant next to us"
- The actual big event... (laughter)
And now it's tomorrow! (snaps)
- Happy year of the dog!
- Okay, alright, it's the next day and...
today is the actual day of the event
and I'm nervous, like the set up out there is hu--
(Chinese festival music)
Hold on, hold on.
I gotta interrupt for just two seconds here,
because the stats on this cake are pretty astounding.
This cake took a combined 40 hours plus to build,
is almost 200 pounds in weight and can feed approximately
1000 dogs, a piece of cake.
That's pretty crazy.
Okay so here comes the most dangerous part of it all.
We've got it all finished but now we have to carry it
I don't know probably (boy squeals)
about the length of a football field.
(festival music plays) Okay we're almost there.
- Your side's the front? I thought my side was the front.
- Well both of your sides. This is the back, I'm on the back
(claps) - Ahhh, we did it!
- [Announcer] Now it's my pleasure to introduce a
dear friend of mine.
We're so lucky to have him
as part of the farmer's market family.
This is Rocky Kanaka.
You've probably seen him on TV.
You've probably known him at "The Dog Bakery".
We gave him a new assignment for this year.
We asked Rocky and his wonderful team:
Ume and Kelly and all the staff to come up with
a year of the dog cake.
- And without further ado, who wants to see
a giant, dog shaped, dog cake?
(audience woos) Yeah!
Here we go, three, two, one! (audience woos)
- [Woman] Oh how cute is that?
(announcer speaking and crowd chattering)
- Okay here we go, let's get this thing cut. Woo!
Alright wait til you see the fluffy cake on the inside.
(woman speaking in background) Look at that!
- [Audience] Wow.
- You could eat that right there.
- I'll take it - It's all human quality.
This cake smells so good I want to eat it.
- [Woman] Good boy, little bit more.
You wanna like the bowl? I can't so.
(laughter) All gone, good boy.
(Chinese festival music)
- I mean this is crazy. This event has been awesome.
We're going to spend the rest of the day
just having fun with dogs and celebrating
this year of the dog, new year, celebration,
but I didn't know if we could pull this off,
but we did and a lot of the credit goes to the team for this
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