![]() ![]() The Lackawanna Center in Jersey City, located less than a mile from the original Hoboken shop, serves as the corporate office for the business and is used as additional space to create wedding and specialty cakes, and to bake specialty baked goods for shipment across the country. There previously were stores in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Westbury, New York The Woodlands, Texas, and São Paulo, Brazil. There are also bakeries in New York City Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Uncasville, Connecticut Orlando, Florida Las Vegas San Antonio, Texas, and Bloomington, Minnesota. Only the Hoboken and Marlton locations are operating as of December 2023. At the ceremony Valastro said, "I am damn proud to be from this state." Ĭarlo's Bakery once had seven locations in New Jersey: Hoboken, Marlton, Morristown, Red Bank, Ridgewood, Wayne, and Westfield. He was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2017 and was introduced by Yankees' pitcher Mariano Rivera. In January 2012, as a result of the attention that the shop and the TV series had brought to the city of Hoboken, the Hudson Reporter named Valastro as an honorable mention in its list of Hudson County's 50 most influential people. He followed it up with other books, including, Baking with the Cake Boss: 100 of Buddy’s Best Recipes and Decorating Secrets, Cooking Italian with the Cake Boss: Family Favorites as Only Buddy Can Serve Them Up and Family Celebrations with the Cake Boss. ![]() In 2010 he authored his first book, Cake Boss, Stories and Recipes from Mia Famiglia. After losing his first three battles, he took the top prize of $10,000 on “battle of the brides.” He then pitched a reality show about life at Carlo's, where he worked with his mother, sister and various in-laws and cousins. Through that exposure he was asked to compete in four Food Network Challenge cake competitions. Valastro grew the family bakery business into designer wedding cakes that were featured in bridal magazines. Odierno, and other members of the United States Army in Times Square cutting a cake to celebrate the Army's 238th birthday in 2012 Career Buddy Valastro (right), General Raymond T. In the fifth episode of the first season of Cake Dynasty, he explains that his oldest son, known as Junior, is the first "Buddy Valastro" to graduate from high school. When his father died in 1994, Valastro was 17 and began to take over the family business. Valastro began working at his family's business, Carlo's Bakery at age 11, alongside his father. He attended Ridgefield Park High School and took baking courses at the Bergen County Technical High School, Teterboro Campus. Valastro grew up with four older sisters: Grace, Mary, Maddalena and Lisa. His father, Buddy Sr., was born in Lipari, Italy. His mother, Mary Tubito (1948-2017), was born in Altamura, Italy, and is the daughter of Italian immigrants Nicola and Maddalena Tubito, who moved to New Jersey when she was six years old. Valastro was born in Hoboken and grew up there and in Little Ferry, New Jersey. Christmas (2020) Buddy Valastro's Cake Dynasty (2023-present) and Legends of The Fork (2023-present) He has also starred in Next Great Baker (2010), Kitchen Boss (2011), Buddy's Bakery Rescue (2013), Bake You Rich (2013), Bakery Boss (2013), Buddy vs. He has taken his small, family-owned bake shop, Carlo's Bakery, and turned it into a baking and restaurant empire.Valastro is best known as the star of the reality television series Cake Boss, which ran on the TLC cable channel from April 2009 until April 2020 and helped put Hoboken, New Jersey, on the map. (born March 3, 1977) is an American baker and reality television personality of Italian heritage. Owner of Carlo's Bakery, Buddy V's Events, The Boss Cafe, Pizza Cake, & Buddy V's Ristoranteīaker, cake designer and host of Cake Bossīartolo "Buddy" Valastro Jr.
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