Top 10 Craziest Cakes on Cake Boss

Yeah, if there’s one thing that makes us hungry, it’s looking at a massive shark with blood and gore smeared around its mouth. Yummy! No, but seriously, this cake is something else. Everyone around Buddy’s orbit criticized the shark while it was being built, calling it a “cartoon shark” and a “bottle-nosed dolphin.” Well, the finished product was anything but. The cake consists of the scarred shark emerging from the water with a vicious growl on its face, gore dripping from its mouth, and an eviscerated fish pierced on its razor-sharp teeth. It sounds disgusting, and it looks disgusting. But apparently it tasted good (better than real shark at least), so we suppose that’s all that matters.

In the third season episode “Strawberries, Sinatra and Sick Ovens,” Buddy was tasked with creating an elaborate cake to celebrate Häagen-Dazs’ fiftieth anniversary. Buddy proceeded to build three massive and realistic Häagen-Dazs buckets made out of pound cake on top of a rectangular base and garnished it with items representing coffee, strawberry, and vanilla ice cream. On the cake you could find coffee beans, strawberries, and vanilla flowers, and edible ice cream cones surrounded the final product, just in case you missed that it was an ice cream-themed cake. Does anyone else want Häagen-Dazs now?

There’s nothing like making a cake for “Sesame Street’s” 40th anniversary to get the blood pressure rising. Especially when said cake is eight feet long! The cake was peppered with a ton of cute little details, like bright letters and numbers adorning the sides and light posts on the buildings. It was also littered with all the classic “Sesame Street” characters like Big Bird, the Cookie Monster, and Bert and Ernie. What resulted was an adorable cake both kids and their nostalgic parents could appreciate, and one that celebrated forty years of a timeless television program. As they proudly proclaimed, “it looks so [effing] cute.” We just didn’t want to be so colorful with our language.

And now we’re getting to the truly grandiose. As in, a massive aquarium complete with swimming fish grandiose. To start, Buddy had to make ice malt sugar and poured it over ice cubes to make the colorful coral. To make the water, the team simply covered a cake in light blue buttercream. Then came the turtle cake for the turtle (how cute), a platypus, a sting ray, and sharks. And to finish, the cake was topped with real fish tanks, filled with water, and populated with real coral and fish like pufferfish and clownfish. The finished product was a unique blending of real and artificial, and it made for a gorgeous, interactive, and eye-popping display.

In this episode, Buddy was visited by two captains of a dragon boat racing team who wanted an elaborate cake centerpiece for their fundraiser. Wishing to honor Chinese culture, Buddy decided to create a massive red and gold Chinese dragon. Cue the headaches. The entire thing consisted of three tiers of cake (including a 24-inch round lower tier) and coiling dragons made from cereal and modeling chocolate. If that wasn’t elaborate enough, the dragons were also given extra detail via luster dust, edible beads, airbrushing, and a textured rolling pin to accentuate the scales. The finished product was a work of art, and to be honest, we don’t know how anyone could cut into that without feeling shame.

At the time, Buddy referred to the Bumblebee cake as “the hardest cake that [he’s] ever done,” and we can certainly see why. Chevrolet hired Buddy to make them a Bumblebee cake for the New York International Auto Show, which might have been a bad idea, seeing as how the cake kind of eclipsed everything else. The cake consisted of a yellow Camaro and Bumblebee, and the dimensions were so big that they were forced to build outside of the bakery. They required the assistance of a special effects artist to create the hydraulics for Bumblebee’s car door wings. We don’t even want to know how long it took them to build this thing…

Isn’t the life of a cake artist wonderful? Sometimes you’re tasked with creating a functioning Transformer. Other times you’re tasked with building a life-sized cow. You never know what you’re going to get. To celebrate a dairy farmer’s prize cow, Buddy built a life-sized cake cow, complete with a hidden contraption that allows Maurizio to hide inside the cake. And why is Maurizio hiding in a cow cake, you may ask? So he can squeeze the bottles that allow chocolate milk to shoot from the cow’s udders. A life-sized cow cake that you can milk for chocolate. What on Earth will they think of next?

When the president of the Retail Bakers of America asks you to create a special cake, you create a special cake. And you go all out while you’re at it. In this second season episode, the president of the RBA tasked Buddy with creating a life-sized race car for a trade show in Charlotte. And judging by Buddy’s initial reaction, he was none too happy about it. Tons of supporting boxes, sponges, fondant, and modeling chocolate later, and Buddy actually had himself a life-sized race car. He seemed genuinely proud of his team and himself, and we can’t blame him, seeing as how he made a freaking life-sized race car! Did we mention that?

If you thought a full-sized race car was amazing (as we clearly do), then you will probably faint in amazement when you see this next entry. The Kennedy Space Center approached Buddy and asked him to create a cake commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Space Shuttle program. The only problem was that they wanted it to fly. While the physical design of the shuttle is simple enough (at least for Buddy’s standards), the whole flying thing was a bit of an issue. To make it work, the team equipped the cake with pyrotechnics and mounted it to a moving scissor lift to give it the illusion of blasting off. Sure, the cake didn’t actually fly, but come on, it’s still pretty darn impressive.

Before we unveil our top pick, here are a few honorable mentions.

Zombie

Working Dump Truck

Motorcycle

A Working Toilet

Lisa’s Birthday Cake

No matter how many masterpieces Buddy creates, nothing will ever top the National Train Day cake. This thing deserves to be in a museum or something. The marketing director of Amtrak came to Buddy with the challenge of creating a train-themed cake to celebrate National Train Day (which apparently is a thing). The end result is truly spectacular – a massive cityscape complete with trees, civilians, cars, and model trains that move around the track. The finished product was unveiled at Penn Station to unanimous praise and gasps of surprise, a fitting reaction to what is probably one of the most beautiful and complex cakes ever made.