8.1/1032 votes#1 - A Bride, a Boat, and Bamboozled!
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/25/2009
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.
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7.6/1019 votes#2 - A Fire, a Fashionista, and Family
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/1/2009
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.
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7.1/1019 votes#3 - Bunny, Birthday, and Burnt Food
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/8/2009
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.
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7.2/1019 votes#4 - Weddings, Water, and Wacked!
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/15/2009
The team at Carlo's is hoping not to get whacked when they're asked to make a huge roulette table cake for a local businessman. It's also the start of wedding season and the time-consuming wedding cake orders are piling up. A mix-up by the sisters not keeping cake orders organized throws Buddy off the handle when a customer comes in to pick up a cake that's not ready.
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7.9/1024 votes#5 - Bi-Plane, Bridezilla, and Busting Buddy
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 6/22/2009
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.
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7.1/1021 votes#6 - Undead, Unclothed, and Unhappy Mama
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 6/29/2009
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.
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7.0/1016 votes#7 - Doves, Ducks, and Delicacies
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 7/6/2009
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.
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6.8/1019 votes#8 - Museum, Mistakes, and Mother Mary
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 7/13/2009
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!
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8.2/1015 votes#9 - Soldiers, Sand, and Salad
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 7/20/2009
Buddy and Company are like kids loose in a toy store, literally, when they are asked to make an FAO Schwarz-themed cake for a twins birthday party at the store. They also have a beach-themed cake to create for a local beach club and Buddy and his main men challenge the sisters to a weight-loss challenge.
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7.4/1014 votes#10 - Chinese Culture and Cannolis
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 7/27/2009
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.
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7.2/1014 votes#11 - A Blindfold, a Bikini and Breathing Fire
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 8/10/2009
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!
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7.3/1015 votes#12 - Leaning, Lobsters and Lectures
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 8/17/2009
Buddy has to channel his inner-Italian to create a Leaning Tower of Pisa wedding cake. Then, he gets into hot water when he must pull together a show stopping lobster bake-themed cake at the last second after a client mixes up the date!
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6.7/1014 votes#13 - Fireworks, Falling Fondant and Fathers
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 8/24/2009
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.
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The Best Episodes of Cake Boss Season 1
Every episode of Cake Boss Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Cake Boss Season 1!
Follows the operations of Carlo's Bakery, a family-owned business in Hoboken, New Jersey owned and operated by siblings Buddy Valastro, Lisa Valastro, Maddalena Castano, Grace...
Genres:RealityFamily
Network:TLC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"A Bride, a Boat, and Bamboozled!" is the best rated episode of "Cake Boss" season 1. It scored 8.1/10 based on 32 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/25/2009. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "A Fire, a Fashionista, and Family".