Cake Boss

- Season 2

(2009)

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden commissions a cake to honor wicked plants, a man wants a special cake by which he can propose marriage in Buddy's store, and Buddy finally pays Cousin Anthony back for dropping a finished cake.

An über-sweet Candy Land cake for Dylan's Candy Bar is at risk from a juvenile cousin's greedy sweet tooth and a bumpy car ride. Meanwhile, Buddy's sisters pressure him to hire an assistant (ostensibly for his own sake), and Cousin Anthony has a traffic accident while on delivery.

Buddy's invited to join in on a celebrity billiards tournament for whom he's making a pool table cake, and painters pay for their awesome paint-themed cake by repainting the bakery, which is an agreeable arrangement till Mary re-determines the color choice.

Buddy's latest challenge: build a functional robot cake. Additionally, Buddy's niece Tessy wants a tie-dye cake from her uncle for her 8th birthday but also wants him to deliver it at a skating rink while on rollers skates, and little Cousin Buddy gives Cousin Anthony grief while accompanying him on deliveries.

The U.S. Air Force invites Buddy and his bakers to their base to commission a cake. Later at the bakery, as everyone begins work on a dance cake for Dance Now, Air Force veteran Joey's over-baked cakes set off a smoke detector.

Alfie the Talking Dragon, a very popular exhibit at the Children's Museum of Manhattan, turns 3-years-old, so Buddy decides to construct a talking cake - with himself as the voice of Alfie. Add to this, a bride-to-be orders a groom cake for her cage fighting fan fiancé, which prompts Buddy's 16-year-old nephew Robert, a high school wrestler, to challenge one of the much heavier bakers to a match. And it's game on!

Buddy takes on a couple of unusual challenges: (1) a pizza cake for his father-in-law's pizzeria along with a pizza throwdown; (2) a dog cake for an animal shelter fund-raiser along with a sugarless, chocolate-free dog food cake for its animals residents. But who should become the unwary sampler of the dog food topping in the kitchen? Cousin Anthony, who else?

A solar system cake for a planetarium proves to be quite a structural headache for the bakers. In the meantime, outside the bakery Buddy takes his guys golfing for inspiration toward their golf course cake while, inside, Buddy's boast that he can make a cake using any tools at all nets him a challenge to make a cake of Carlo's Bakery quality using an Easy Bake toy oven.

Major League Eating gets an entire buffet table made of cake, the people of Coney Island Side Show get a freaky topsy-turvy cake, Frankie gets tested on the extent of his fear of clowns, and Grace, who wants to try cooking Thanksgiving Day dinner, is allowed a trial run.

A festive drag-queen breezes into the shop to order a holiday cake s/he can pop out of; then, a couple of pretty clients turn the heads of the delivery boys (who subsequently beg Buddy to be allowed to deliver their cake), so Buddy makes 'em dress up for their Christmas delivery - as his happy elves.

Buddy builds a motorcycle cake for the Hell's Angels. At the other extreme, he has to make a serving tray tea party cake for a Manhattan socialite who just wants something fabulous - even if she had to venture out to Buddy's bakery in Hoboken, New Jersey to get it.

With the bakery inundated in orders for fifty wedding cakes over a single weekend (including one for Buddy's sister-in-law, for whom Buddy himself is a member of the wedding party), Buddy's ready to blow a gasket.

Proud Mary S. gets Buddy burning when he learns she called another baker to make her her birthday cake because Buddy didn't give her his undivided attention earlier. Buddy's creative wheels keep on turning as he rolls out a first-time apple-flavored cake for the orchard where he annually picks his fresh apples.

Sesame Street wants a cake for its 40th year anniversary so Buddy and staff make them one - eight feet long.

Buddy's idea for a cake celebrating the premiere of a movie theater doesn't find favor with those ordering it, while the execution of a cake for the Bronx Zoo's 110th year isn't finding Buddy's favor, and Mary goes out of everyone's favor when she sells a crumb cake that was waiting to be picked up by a customer.

The president of the Retail Bakers Association of America brings Buddy a challenge - construct a life-size NASCAR cake for the annual convention in Pennsylvania. Mauro is put in charge of the bakery during Buddy's absence, but when designers order a high fashion cake, Mary strongly feels Mauro doesn't have enough fashion sense to pull it off and lets him know it.

For a colorful aquarium cake, Buddy incorporates a real fish tank. Buddy's sister Lisa has something to tell Buddy on the Q.T.

Walt Disney World invites Buddy to come out and make them his famous cannolis. It's daughter Sophie's 6th birthday as well and, though they're all away from the bakery on a family vacation, she requests a castle cake from her dad, which Buddy finds hard to refuse (but even harder to execute).

In this special episode, Buddy counts down his top five favorite cakes and re-lives some of the most memorable moments from the past two seasons.