List of Ace of Cakes episodes

This is a list of the episodes of the "Ace of Cakes" series.

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DB0101
Triple Crown Cake
Chef Duff Goldman and his Charm City Cakes team are introduced. The staff must produce 21 cakes in a week, including a special cake for the Preakness Stakes horse race. Other featured cakes are a jeep cake by Geof, and a cake Duff creates for a college friend's wedding. Other cakes are an Xbox cake, a fish cake, a dentist cake, a crazy pink-and-black cake, and several wedding cakes.
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1
DB0102
Hell Week
"Hell week" is the busiest week of summer: 24 cakes in 7 days, including several wedding cakes for Memorial Day weekend. Primary cakes are a tequila-bottle cake for two girls graduating from Goucher College, a replica of a German shepherd for a groom's cake, a four-tier deconstructed wedding cake for two men, and an elaborate four-tier wedding cake in which each tier represents a snapshot from a couple's vacations.
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DB0103
Wedding Cakes and Headaches
The episode's cakes include a four-tier wedding cake imitating the style of Aubrey Beardsley, a cake shaped like a vintage hat for a woman's surprise 80th birthday party, a massive wedding cake accompanied by 300 eight-layer cookies, and a surprise birthday cake for Duff's father, coming into town from Florida.
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1
DB0104
Life's a Zoo
Duff makes a pair of flamingo cakes for Zoomerang, the annual benefit gala for Maryland Zoo. Geof invents rice-krispie cannoli for the flamingos beaks. Duff collaborates with old friend Warren Brown of Sugar Rush when a D.C. couple orders a Capitol dome-shaped cake to sit atop a cupcake tower. Also featured is a flaming Fist of Rock groom's cake for a heavy metal-loving groom.
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1
DB0105
Duff Goes Hollywood
Duff gives cake-decorating lessons to a local troop of Brownies. The staff makes a bushel barrel of crabs, with ears of corn around the base, consisting of modeling chocolate and sugar. Duff appears on the "Tonight Show" with a birthday cake for Jay Leno; Duff and Geof are forced to make the cake in their Los Angeles hotel room, with the help of Mike McCary of "Food Network Challenge". While in Los Angeles, Duff uses his power-tool skills on a Habitat for Humanity home, realizing a childhood dream at the Guitar Center on Sunset Boulevard where he plays a bass once belonged to Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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DB0106
Cake Walk
An engaged couple has ordered a cake for each table in the shape of a bumper car. The Maryland Science Center receives a birthday cake in the shape of a dinosaur blowing out candles. The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, gets two cakes for the grand opening of a new building: a peach-tree cake, combining cake and metal sculpture, and a mendhi cake with intricate piping.
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2
DB0201
Chi-Town and Wedding Gowns
Duff and Geof build a replica of Wrigley Field for a man's 80th birthday, and Duff drives 11 hours to deliver the cake. Richard creates a 10-point buck groom's cake for an avid hunter. Two of Mary Alice's friends are getting married and their cakes get special attention.
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2
DB0202
The Boss Is Gone
Duff is out of town and Mary Alice is left to juggle crazy phone calls and e-mails. She tries her hand at repairing a cake.
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2
DB0203
Four Weddings And A Rat
Two women marrying want to mix the traditional and non-traditional in their cakes; one is a flowery, four-tier affair, the other a Baltimore icon — a large rat on a city manhole cover. Erica, a part-time decorator, is getting married and has ordered a wedding cake consisting of pair of owls perched on a branch. Another bride and groom celebrate their different cultures in their cakes: a Thai pagoda for her and a replica of the Brooklyn Bridge for the groom.
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2
DB0204
Great Scot
Duff dons a kilt to deliver a cow cake to a Scottish wedding. Other cakes include a "sweet sixteen" cake, a magnolia-themed cake that poses major problems for the Charm City staff, and a cake ordered by a nervous customer who plans to use it to propose to his girlfriend by placing the engagement ring directly on the cake.
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2
DB0205
Monkey Business
First is a $2000 King Kong bar mitzvah cake. Then a replica of the Overseas Houston, a giant tanker, being christened in Chesterfield, Pa. The shipping company also ordered a champagne bottle made out of a cookie to christen the cake ship. Also, a woman is surprising her DJ groom-to-be with a cake that looks like his beloved Technics turntable.
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2
DB0206
Tributes and Tribulations
Howard County Fire and Rescue is hosting its annual flag football charity event, and the Fire Department of New York is sending a team for the first time since 9/11. Howard County has ordered a fire-truck cake with a special 9/11 flag suspended from the back. Also, the Olney Theater Group wants a replica of Cinderella's carriage; a three-tier sushi cake is made; and a woman planning a wedding surprises her mother, a fanatic for all things Egyptian, with a birthday cake that looks like an Egyptian cat statue with heiroglyphics.
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2
DB0207
Flying High
Geof tackles a groom's cake in the shape of the Olympic ski slope in Innsbruck, Austria, with the bride and groom skiing down the mountain. A surprise cake is created for a man who has received his pilot's license; his wife orders a cake in the shape of a Cessna 172 airplane. Fluid Movement is putting on Glitterama, the annual winter community-theater talent-show fund-raiser, and Duff plans a version of the Dance of the Seven Veils.
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2
DB0208
Milestones and Monuments
Duff and Geof make a cake in the shape of a pile of tennis balls for Martina Navratilova's 50th birthday. Duff has been asked to emcee Baltimore's annual holiday tree-lighting ceremony with the mayor, so Geof and Duff create a replica of Baltimore's Washington Monument including fireworks Duff will light off. Duff also makes a cake as a surprise for the 40th wedding anniversary of his college friend's parents, whom he considers his surrogate Jewish parents in Baltimore.
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2
DB0209
Cake-Tastrophe
Duff and his team have been brought in by Starbucks to make a special holiday cake at Union Station in Washington, DC. After days of work, they create a train that looks like it is made of gingerbread. Also featured is a girl's 16th-birthday goth cake, complete with skulls and spiders. Charm City has been invited to make three massive cakes for a man's "Big Fat Greek Birthday." One of the cakes represents an old theater with "It's a Wonderful Life" on the marquee; another has a girl sipping a soda at a soda fountain.
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2
DB0210
Shell Shocked
Becky Smith is graduating and has ordered a cake from Charm City Cakes for her big party.
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2
DB0211
Dr. Duff
The team has been enlisted by a radiology company to create a cake in the shape of a CT scanner, complete with a patient inside.
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2
DB0212
Playing Games
Charm City makes a cake in the shape of a Scrabble board for a client's mother; a gumball machine cake with real gumballs inside for a bat mitzvah party; and a birthday cake in the shape of a slot machine.
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2
DB0213
The Super Cake
Duff goes to Miami to make a cake for the National Football League's Super Bowl party. It is the largest cake Charm City has made.
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3
DB0301
Wedding Bells and Shotgun Shells
One of the bakery's very own is getting hitched. Duff and the staff are heading off to a firing range to do a little target practice.
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3
DB0302
Tattoos and Traditions
Duff takes the staff on a field trip to the [http://baltotat.com/ Baltimore Tattoo Museum] and the staff works on cakes including a duck hunt, a row house and an armadillo dressed like an EMT.
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3
DB0303
Mary (Alice) Go Round
Duff and the crew make a carousel cake with a special touch from Geoff for Asbury Park's 110th anniversary.
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3
DB0304
Challenge Road Trip
Duff, Geoff, and Mary Alice head to Denver to be celebrity judges for one of the Food Network's Extreme Cake Challenges.
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3
DB0305
Wishes Granted
It's all about the kids this week at Charm City Cakes. Duff makes a little girl's wish come true.
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3
DB0306
Rock & Roll
Duff and his crew design special cakes for the Armed Forces Foundation Gala. They also make a cake for the band Clutch.
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3
DB0307
Stadium Games and Eating Brains
Two stadium cakes must be delivered this weekend. The first is a groom's cake in the shape of Camden Yards. The other, due the next day, is a replica of Raven Stadium with NCAA lacrosse players on the field.
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3
DB0308
Battleships and Birthdays
Tom Clancy wants a birthday cake in the shape of the Tower of London to honor the fact that Clancy is the only American Beefeater. Duff's roommate from freshmen year is getting married, and Duff is making his wedding cake, a four-tier asymmetric cake with a Chesapeake Bay theme. Charm City Cakes is also Philadelphia bound; Helena has enlisted Duff and his crew to make an exact replica of the King Tut sarcophogus out of cake.
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DB0309
Charm and Charities
Duff has signed on to do another cake for Zoomerang, which is the Baltimore Maryland Zoo's big gala fundraising event. This year, the theme is elephants. A Night at the Wire is a huge charity event thrown by the HBO show "The Wire", and Duff donates a cake for the party.
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DB0310
Uncle Sam Wants Duff
It's the Army's birthday and their doing it up: they've asked Duff to make a special tank cake for a big pre-game presentation with a four-star general and the managers of the Orioles and Nationals.
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DB0311
Coach Duff
Cake for Carmelo Anthony, a musician's cake in the shape of a piano, and a replica of the USS Carney.
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3
DB0312
Charm City Christmas
Radio City Music Hall cake.
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3
DB0313
Hairspray Premiere
Hairspray cake. John Waters interview. "Operation" game cake.
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4
DB0401
The Harry Potter Cake
Duff, Anna, and Ben travel to Hollywood for the Los Angeles premiere of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. In La, the complete construction of massivel scaled edible replica of Hogwarts castle as seen in the film. The cake was on display at the official Warner Bros. premiere party, and featured appearance from Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint.
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4
DB0402
Volcano Cakes and Mix Tapes
A celebrity softball game, a moonbounce cake, and a volcano cake.
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4
DB0403
Mascots and Mice
Georgetown mascot cake.
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4
DB0404
Airplanes and Arks
Noah's Ark Bat Mitzvah. Delta Air airliner. Subway car.
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4
DB0405
The Spy Who Caked Me
Sir Roger Moore's 80th Birthday cake. Exorcist cake. (Note: Two different cakes.)
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4
DB0406
Wedding Week
A zany, madcap week featuring a cast of wacky cakebuilding fiends. Hey, that's not fondant!
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4
DB0407
Skaters and Speedsters
The crew makes cakes for All Pro skater and skate board designer Kris Markovich's surprise birthday, a four-tier fall season wedding cake, an "over-the-top" cute baby shower cake and a replica of Geof's childhood neighbor's 365 Porsche Speedster.
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4
DB0408
Celebration Week
Ear cake. Clock tower cake.
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4
DB0409
Police Cars and Wine Bars
Police cruiser cake. Yarn cake. Harley Davidson cake. Book 'em, Duffo!
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4
DB0410
Avenue Q Cake
"You can be loud as the hell you want when you're making cake."
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4
DB0411
Duff's Birthday
Scrapple showdown. Duff's birthday cake.
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4
DB0412
Skate Rattle and Roll
Roller skate cake; Geof makes a Corvette cake after test driving a real one. Also featured is a cake in the shape of a mother manatee and her baby.
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5
DB0501
World's Largest Cupcake
Duff and Geof create the World's Largest Cupcake for a charity bake sale in Minnesota. Other projects are a Roulette Wheel cake for a Baltimore charity's "Casino Night" and a replica of the Charm City bakery.
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5
DB0502
Elephant Delivery Service
The bakery makes cakes that include a replica of a book cart, an exact copy of a law professor's book on the Federalist Papers and a tower of toys for a set of twins' first birthday party, delivered by Duff in a pink elephant costume.
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5
DB0503
Swimming With the Sharks
Duff delivers a cake to a Newport, Ky. aquarium to celebrate the birthday of a shark, and swims with a tank full of sharks, including the birthday girl. Back in Baltimore, the staff creates a Neapolitan Mastiff Cake for the local dog show and a machinegun-toting rubber ducky for a couple's wedding anniversary.
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5
DB0504
Food Network Friends
Duff is shooting three television shows this week (Ace of Cakes, Diners, Drive-ins and Dives and Paula's Party), making a huge cake for the Broadway premiere of "Crybaby", and Geof is building the tallest cake in Charm City Cakes history: a six-foot skyscraper that will be delivered to Philadelphia.
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5
DB0505
Pinball Wizard
The crew creates a Fenway park cake, a light up Goddess/Archer Diana and a vintage pinball machine for a convention. Duff participates in a big charity event, Hockey Fights Cancer.
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DB0506
Lord Stanley
The actual Stanley Cup comes to CCC for a visit to model for a wedding cake. The bakery also makes a bar mitzvah dirt bike/off-road cake and an island-themed cake with a working volcano on top.
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5
DB0507
Gone to the Dogs
Geof's dog Cotton serves as the model for a cake for Milkbone's 100th Anniversary. Charm City also makes a replica of the bridge of the Starship Enterprise (complete with Captain Kirk and the rest of the crew) and a Dachshund in a hot dog bun.
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5
DB0508
Pandamonium
Duff and the CCC crew build a giant cake for the Kung Fu Panda Premiere in Los Angeles. The cake has replicas of the entire Kung Fu Panda cast, as well as two smoke machines on timers.
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5
DB0509
Frogs to Turkey and Everything In Between
For the third year in a row, Charm City Cakes is supplying a cake for Zoomerang, the Baltimore Zoo's annual gala black-tie fundraiser. This year, it's a large pond topped by Giant Golden Tree Frogs. The bakery also designs a replica of a Turducken for a sixteenth birthday party, and a replica of the Lincoln Memorial (complete with Reflecting Pool and the Washington Monument).
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5
DB0510
Get Cake
Duff, Mary Alice and Geof travel to Boston for the premiere of Get Smart. Upon their return, they create a crazy cake for a client who's hosting his own funeral.

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