The BEST Episodes of Cake Boss
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Oct 5, 2019
Network: Discovery Family
Buddy Valastro is one of the most successful and renowned cake artists in the United States. Master baker of Carlo's City Hall Bake Shop in Hoboken, New Jersey, Buddy is the cake boss.
#1 - Fireworks, Falling Fondant and Fathers
Season 1 - Episode 13
A fellow family owned business asks Buddy and the Carlo's team to honor their patriarch by creating a special cake featuring their company's product...fireworks! It's also "Bring Your Dad to School Day" at Buddy's son's school and he's got a surprise for all the kids.
8.70 
#2 - Mother's Day and Men in Uniform
Season 7 - Episode 14
Momma is back from Florida and sees the bakery for the first time since the renovation; making a cake for the US Navy celebrating Fleet Week; Grace finds a new hobby.
8.67 
#3 - Doves, Ducks and Delicacies
Season 1 - Episode 7
Buddy is excited to create an old-school wedding cake like the kind his father used to make; tall, ornate and filled with... live birds?! A dad-to-be comes to the bakery to order a giant lobster tail pastry for his pregnant wife. Little Frankie goes on a mission to catch live birds for the wedding cake.
8.38 #4 - Fiery Competition
Season 6 - Episode 27
The team makes a fire-truck cake that features a burning building, and a bocce-theme cake for a charity tournament.
8.33 #5 - Up, Up & Away
Season 6 - Episode 28
A cake delivery in a hot air balloon; Cousin Anthony questions Buddy's authority; Momma's trip.
8.33 
#6 - A Fire, A Fashionista and Family
Season 1 - Episode 2
Buddy and his team learn that where there's smoke, there's fire when they have to build a fire engine cake complete with working lights, siren and smoke. They also have to create a 30th birthday cake for two trendy fashionistas. This week also marks the 15th anniversary of Buddy's father's death so emotions are high as he recreates his father's trademark cake for the family memorial dinner.
8.30 
#7 - Castles, Cannolis & Cartoon Characters
Season 2 - Episode 18
Buddy and Mauro travel to Walt Disney World to make cannoli at the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival.
8.27 
#8 - Chimp, Cinema, and Crumb Cake
Season 2 - Episode 15
Buddy designs a cake celebrating 110th anniversary of the Bronx Zoo. Later he deals with an indecisive client when creating a cake for the grand opening of a movie theater.
8.27 
#9 - Chinese Culture and Cannolis
Season 1 - Episode 10
The Carlo's team has a unique and challenging cake to make this week, a traditional Chinese dragon cake for a dragon boat racing team. It's also a big week at the bakery preparing hundreds of cannoli shells for the annual $.25 Throw Back Cannoli Day and on top of all that, Buddy and Lisa are celebrating their eighth wedding anniversary.
8.17 
#10 - Snow Globe, Story Book Cake & a Scare
Season 4 - Episode 6
Buddy is asked to make a snow globe cake for a surprise engagement. Meanwhile, he surprises his daughter's 2nd grade class with a special story book cake inspired by his daughter. Later, Lisa is rushed to the doctor's office giving Buddy a huge scare.
8.16 
#11 - Bunny, Birthday and Burnt Food
Season 1 - Episode 3
It's one of the busiest weeks of the year at Carlo's Bakery with orders pouring in for Easter, and a last-minute Easter Bunny cake turns into more than the team bargained for. There are also three members of the family celebrating birthdays this week and Buddy's sister Grace, who's never cooked for the family before, decides she's going to make Easter dinner.
8.14 
#12 - Colorful Characters and Christmas Costumes
Season 2 - Episode 10
Buddy and his crew create a holiday-themed cake for drag queen Miss Richfield 1981; Buddy is begged by cousin Anthony and Stretch to let them deliver a cake to a party full of women, but the boss has a trick up his sleeve.
8.11 
#13 - Museum, Mistakes, and Mother Mary
Season 1 - Episode 8
The Carlo's team gets to take a field trip to a local museum for a prehistoric mammal cake. A Sweet 16 cake proves to be more work than anyone planned on and Frankie makes and decorates a cake all by himself for a very hard to please client...Mary!
8.10 
#14 - Bi-Plane, Bridezilla and Busting Buddy
Season 1 - Episode 5
It's another busy week at Carlo's Bakery but Buddy can't say no to making a charity bi-plane cake for a local hospital. An unreasonable Bridezilla makes everyone's life difficult after the bakery crew makes a cake that she's not pleased with and Stretch, the bakery's delivery driver, plots a revenge prank against Buddy with unexpected results.
8.09 
#15 - A Blindfold, A Bikini and Breathing Fire
Season 1 - Episode 11
Buddy is used to putting out fires, not starting them, but all that changes when he's asked to make a tiki cake that spits fire. Buddy also has to make a bridal shower cake for his sister-in-law and Mauro challenges him to ice a cake while blindfolded...or he'll have to walk around the bakery in a grass skirt and coconut bra!
8.07 
#16 - Peppermint & a Polar Bear Plunge
Season 3 - Episode 2
While on a cake consultation with the Coney Island Polar Bear Club, Buddy and his crew get an unusual challenge, when Mama Valaestro finds out about it, she requests that they don’t partake in it; Buddy’s youngest son requests that he make an ice cream cake with clowns on it for his birthday.
8.05 
#17 - A Bride, A Boat and Bamboozled!
Season 1 - Episode 1
Meet award-winning pastry chef and cake decorator Buddy Valastro and his over-the-top family at Carlo's Bakery in Hoboken, New Jersey. After beginning a week completely jam-packed with cake orders, Buddy gets a call from a customer he cannot possibly turn down. Brides Magazine is offering Buddy an inside cover photo spread but he's going to have to create a cake unlike any he's ever done before. Between arguing with his family, producing the standard 300-plus cakes the bakery makes in any given week and running out of sugar, is there any way Buddy and Company are going to get this opportunity of a lifetime cake done in time? All the while Buddy's sisters are planning to throw their brother a surprise birthday party.
8.03 
#18 - Undead, Unclothed and Unhappy Mama
Season 1 - Episode 6
Buddy is thrown out of his comfort zone when he's asked to make a zombie cake for a couple of undead clients. This week the team also has to make an erotic bachelorette cake for some wild women. This cake seems likes it's going to be all fun and games until Mama finds out and bans the bakery staff from making sexy cakes.
8.03 #19 - Sweet Chicken and Sweeter Revenge
Season 7 - Episode 6
A chicken-and-waffle eatery wants a cake to celebrate their anniversary; a monster cake is created for a day-care center; the women play a prank on Frank.
8.03 #20 - On the Road Again
Season 6 - Episode 18
Willie Nelson's 80th birthday cake; birthday cake for Sofia's birthday.
8.00 #21 - Carlo's Cowboys
Season 6 - Episode 22
A giant cake for a rodeo association; a cake for a top-secret celebration.
8.00 #22 - Icing the Cake
Season 6 - Episode 25
A goalie cake for the NHL Draft; re-creating a wedding cake for a couple.
8.00 #24 - Dinosaurs, Brush Strokes and Edible Art
Season 10 - Episode 1
The crew summons the Jurassic when they make a cake for a local Dinosaur theme park. Buddy and his team create a gigantic cake interpretation of this massive creature.
8.00 
#25 - A Big Bumblebee & A Bossy Grace
Season 4 - Episode 16
Buddy is asked to create a giant Bumblebee cake to help promote the blockbuster movie Transformers 3 and the all new Camaro that will be on display at the New York Auto Show. Meanwhile, Grace is left in charge of the bakery.
7.99