How much do Buddy's cakes cost?

Answer 1

Reality show takes the cake with personality-packed bakery

Cake Boss chronicles the escapades of Valastro and his colorful Italian family with their New Jersey accents and attitude - including his four sisters, three brothers-in-law, his mother, an aunt, his wife and a few cousins - while they go about their business each week making 50 to 60 wedding cakes, 300 to 600 birthday cakes, 2,000 cupcakes, thousands of pastries (cannoli, lobster tails, biscotti, éclairs) and several complex, intricately designed cakes.

So far this season, they've whipped up a 400-pound cake to look like a 20-ton extinct mammal, an elaborate toy scene with huge toy soldiers, and a large wedding cake with real white doves encased in a cage between two tiers of the cake. (Eleven previous episodes are airing Sunday from 1 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. ET/PT. Two new episodes air at 10 p.m. Aug. 10 and 17.)

• Cost of the cakes. "Our cakes start at $1,000. That's the minimum order. It's rare that one of our cakes is more than $2,500. We make 12 to 15 cakes a week, and they are super fresh."

• The dynamics of his staff. "People are really having that much fun. They are laughing and goofing around and dressing up in weird costumes. We are all artists, musicians, poets. Kitchens are crazy, crazy places. Some people who watch the show say they want to work there. They want to hang out with those guys. We probably get a thousand resumes a week."