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Ace of Cakes 
Series logo as seen in the opening sequenceGenre Reality Written by Heather Mitchell
Miriam Leffert
Dustin RubinDirected by Brandy Menefee
Jeffrey R. Daniels
Matthew CarrStarring Duff Goldman
Geof Manthorne
Mary Alice Yeskey
Sherri Chambers
Anna Ellison
Katherine Hill
Adam Goldstein
Richard Todd Karoll
Katie Rose
Mary Smith
Ben Turner
Elena Fox
Lauren Friedman
Erica Harrison
Mark MullerCountry of origin United States Language(s) English No. of seasons 10 No. of episodes 115 (List of episodes) Production Executive producer(s) Becca Lewis
Tom RoganProducer(s) Authentic Entertainment Editor(s) Grayce Lackland Location(s) Baltimore, Maryland Cinematography Matthew Carr Running time 22–24 minutes Broadcast Original channel Food Network Original run August 17, 2006 – February 10, 2011 External links Website Ace of Cakes is an American reality television show which airs on the Food Network. The show focuses on the daily operations of Duff Goldman's custom cake shop, Charm City Cakes, in Baltimore, Maryland; including small-business ownership, working with various vendors, tasting with customers, constructing cakes, and delivering his products.
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Synopsis
Ace of Cakes highlights the frantic activity encompassing the production of a substantial number of custom cakes in a short period of time. The staff consists primarily of Duff Goldman's good friends who have varying personalities, making the show very humorous at times. They are frequently shown working long hours to build and decorate the cakes, yet are always making jokes to offset the alleged stress of hitting each deadline. Staff members sometimes drive the cakes to their final destinations, which can require road trips of several hundred miles. Goldman has an informal approach to running Charm City Cakes. He is known for using non-traditional cooking utensils such as blow torches, belt sanders, and power saws, and more to construct his designs.
Some of the notable cakes created by Charm City Cakes include cakes for the Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico in Maryland, Baltimore Zoo, the premiere of the 2007 film Hairspray, a replica of Radio City Music Hall for the Rockettes, a hatbox-shaped cake for an 80-year-old grandmother, the Hogwarts castle for the premiere of the fifth installment of Harry Potter in Los Angeles, an edible replica of Wrigley Field, a replica of the shark ray at the Newport Aquarium, a cake for the Paramount Pictures premiere of the DreamWorks Animation film Kung-Fu Panda, and a replica of the Hubble Space Telescope for NASA[1] For the season finale of Season 5, the bakery's staff traveled to Hawaii to create a cake for the 100th episode of Lost.[2]
Episodes
Main article: List of Ace of Cakes episodesSeason one of Ace of Cakes consisted of six episodes airing in early fall 2006. The show proved to be one of the highest-rated prime time shows in Food Network's history, causing the network to order 13 episodes for season two including an hour-long episode featuring the official NFL cake for Super Bowl XLI.[3] A one-hour special featured the show's first international delivery, to London, England in an episode aired in December 2010. Season 10, planned to be the program's last (despite its popularity), premiered in January 2011 and had six episodes. The final episode featured a large scale Delorean time machine cake created for Universal Studios' Back to the Future anniversary event in New York City[4].
Season Season premiere Season finale 1 August 17, 2006 September 21, 2006 2 January 18, 2007 May 17, 2007 3 July 19, 2007 December 13, 2007 4 January 24, 2008 May 1, 2008 5 June 29, 2008 October 16, 2008 6 January 15, 2009 May 9, 2009 7 July 19, 2009 October 29, 2009 8 January 21, 2010 April 22, 2010 9 July 1, 2010 December 9, 2010 10 (final)
January 2011 (planned)
February 10, 2011 (last episode) (series finale)
Model of the Hubble Space Telescope and Jupiter created by Charm City Cakes on display at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland
Production
Charm City Cakes exterior at 2936 Remington Avenue in BaltimoreAce of Cakes is shot on location at the bakery in Baltimore, Maryland, a converted church. The show has also featured other locations where Duff, Geof and occasionally others travel to in delivery of cakes such as Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C., Miami, Boston, Alaska, Hawaii and others. The show is edited in Los Angeles at the show's production company, Authentic Entertainment, a subsidiary of Endemol.[5]
Reception
During Season 8, Ace of Cakes launched a new promotion concept involving a deck of Las Vegas style playing cards[6]
Ace of Cakes has been a very large success with fans and critics alike, and began airing its ninth season in July 2010. The show has brought Food Network some of the highest ratings it has ever received for a prime-time program.[7][3] Ace of Cakes is also broadcasted in the United Kingdom on Good Food, México and Latin America on FOXLIFE New Zealand on the Food Channel and in Australia on LifeStyle Food.
On November 19, 2010, Food Network announced that the 10th season of Ace of Cakes would be its last and began airing in January 2011, ending shortly after in February.[8]
References
- ^ cNASA has its Hubble cake, can't eat it too
- ^ LOST in Hawaii : Ace of Cakes : Food Network
- ^ a b Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 26, 2007
- ^ http://photos.denverpost.com/mediacenter/2010/10/back-to-the-future-reunion/#12 Charm City Cakes Bakes Back To The Future Delorean Cake For Movies' 25th Anniversary
- ^ variety.com — Accessed December 22, 2009
- ^ Click 3X Blog
- ^ Boston Globe, October 18, 2006
- ^ MSNBC, November 19, 2010
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- Food Network series
- Food reality television series
- Television shows set in Baltimore, Maryland
- Television series by Authentic Entertainment
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