Arts & Entertainment

The Cake Boss Is Ready For Round Three

Spoiler alert: Buddy "Cake Boss" Valastro about the new season of the TLC hit show

Buddy Valastro exchanged his white baker's apron for a fashionable suit and tie on Tuesday evening, when he attended TLC's summer programming launch party. 

The third season of Cake Boss will air on Monday night, at 9 p.m. EST. It will help kick off the TLC Summer, which also includes a new season of Say Yes To The Dress and a new show about two sisters who start a cupcake business in Washington, D.C. 

"It's my most authentic season," said Valastro on Tuesday night, as he sipped one of the mini appletinis the waiters handed the crowd. "It's natural ... it feels right."

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And the cakes will be bigger than ever before. So big even, that Valastro is moving the ovens to a higher floor of the Washington Street bakery.

Of course, the TLC event—which was held in Manhattan—featured a cake by Valastro. He said he didn't have much time to make it, and did it in one day. 

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Valastro has had a busy couple of weeks with trips to Chicago and Los Angeles. In Chicago he met Oprah Winfrey, a lifelong dream. Calling Oprah the "most powerful woman in the world," he said the visit was amazing and she turned out to be very nice.

The new season will be 26 episodes long, and the crew will travel to Italy. 

"Back to the roots," Valastro said. 

Among the cakes you can expect in the upcoming season are a life size replica of Valastro's wife Lisa (which was made in the W Hotel in Hoboken), a cake in the form of a mechanical bull (which also moves as such), a cake in the form of the stock market's closing bell and a birthday cake for Valastro's 3-year-old son.

In Monday's episode, Valastro will make a large cream puff cake—in honor of his father—to celebrate the retirement of his mother. But, rest assured, she will still be involved with the show, Valastro said. 

Valastro did not elaborate on any celebrities visiting the cake shop. Jersey Shore

Hobokenites and other non-celebrities, though, know that getting into Carlo's Bake Shop has become difficult, due to the long lines in front. Getting a cannoli can become a two-hour ordeal, and lines often wrap around the block. But Valastro sees it as a good thing, because it's bringing families together. 

Earlier this year, Hoboken City Council awarded Valastro a proclamation, honoring him for the economic stimulus he has brought to Washington Street, and Hoboken as a whole.

Furthermore, the Cake Boss said, he has revived an age-old, but dying, trade. Now, he added, kids want to become bakers again. 

In the past couple of weeks, Valastro said he has made three cakes for terminally ill children. . 

"Each time I cry like a baby," Valastro said. After such an emotional cake, he said he goes home and hugs his children. 

The third season of the Cake Boss is still being filmed, and will probably be done in July. After which, Valastro said, he's ready to start the ball rolling on season four. 


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