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Baking with the Cake Boss
Here’s a gift for the food lover in your life: Baking With the Cake Boss — 100 of Buddy’s Best Recipes and Decorating Secrets by Buddy Valastro (Free Press; $32).
It’s classic Buddy Valastro, aka The Cake Boss, star of the hit TLC series and head of one of the most successful baking businesses in the history of sugar.
Buddy’s latest book offers more than 100 of his most sought after recipes, along with step-by-step instruction on everything from baking to decorating, from kneading to rolling, fondant to flowers and so much more.
The book is — delicious!
How’s Buddy feel about it? “I’m so proud of this book,” says Valastro, while in town for a tour. “It offers great techniques from the bottom up. It was a labour of love, but I wanted to answer the questions people have asked on how to create a beautiful, nicely decorated cake.”
Valastro says the key is “patience. And practice. Allow your imagination to guide you.”
What with his successful TV show, speaking engagements, an incredibly busy and expanding company and a big, Italian family — how does Valastro manage to juggle it all?
“I just take everything in stride — and focus on what it taking place. I take things piece by piece — once the book promotion is finished I’m on the bus back home to my family.”
I ask Buddy about one of the recent episodes on his show — the one featuring the vampires who wanted a specific cake made in the shape of a body in a coffin. “Yeah, that was a wild episode,” said Valastro. “How these requests get into the show is this — we take the cake orders, and then we look through them with the producers. We pick the best three cakes of the week — the most elaborate, or weirdest, and we feature them.
“The vampire cake was really weird — but we just laughed! We’re from Jersey, nothing scares us!” said Valastro with a laugh.
What’s new with the bakery? “We’re going to be offering baking and cooking classes right in the new bakery,” said Valastro, happily. “It’s for kids and adults.”
Open to Canadians? “To everyone.”
Along with the Valastro’s new cookbook, cooking classes in the new bakery sounds like an awesome gift idea for the holidays!
Baking With the Cake Boss is available at your local favourite bookstore.
Check out Carlosbakery.com and Tlc.howstuffworks.com/tv/cake-boss.
baking with Bill & Sheila
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