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2009-10-20 Hardcover Like New Remainder Mark. When Duff Goldman, Food Network's "Ace of Cakes, " envisioned Charm City Cakes in Baltimore nearly a decade ago, his goal was to ... make wonderful cakes for friends and family. As word spread about his fabulous creations, his dream grew into a nationally renowned business staffed by a team of talented professionals, including musicians, artists, and creative souls with experience in architectural modeling, graphic design, deejaying, coffee making, performance art, dog walking, sculpture, painting and more. Aces of Cakes: Inside the World of Charm City Cakes is a celebration of the bakery that started it all. This colorful scrapbook is loaded with stories about Duff's early days as a graffiti artist turned young chef, his successes and hilarious disasters, and the amazing team he built step-by-step. Through candid interviews and profiles and hundreds of photographs, illustrations, and collages, the book shows how energy, inspiration, collaboration, and a bit of l Read more Show Less

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When Duff Goldman, Food Network's "Ace of Cakes," envisioned Charm City Cakes in Baltimore nearly a decade ago, his goal was to make wonderful cakes for friends and family. As word spread about his fabulous creations, his dream grew into a nationally renowned business staffed by a team of talented professionals, including musicians, artists, and creative souls with experience in architectural modeling, graphic design, deejaying, coffee making, performance art, dog walking, sculpture, painting and more.

Aces of Cakes: Inside the World of Charm City Cakes is a celebration of the bakery that started it all. This colorful scrapbook is loaded with stories ...

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Aces of Cakes: Inside the World of Charm City Cakes is a celebration of the bakery that started it all. This colorful scrapbook is loaded with stories about Duff's early days as a graffiti artist turned young chef, his successes and hilarious disasters, and the amazing team he built step-by-step. Through candid interviews and profiles and hundreds of photographs, illustrations, and collages, the book shows how energy, inspiration, collaboration, and a bit of luck can conspire to help anyone achieve their creative vision.

Of course, at the center of this stunning book are Charm City's Cakes. From the simple to the breathtakingly complex, Duff shows off some of the bakery's more unusual techniques and tools that shape their famous creations. He also offers a behind-the-scenes look at his Food Network show, shares his most incredible customer stories and requests, and reveals some of the bakery's favorite cake facts and tips—along with a comprehensive episode guide and a monster cake montage featuring seven years' worth of the bakery's astonishing cake creations.

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Food Network "Ace of Cakes" Duff Goldman never believed that confection treats are just rote exercises in baking expertise. At his Charm City Cakes in Baltimore, he hires not just bakers but also artists, sculptors, modelers, and musicians. The results are spectacular -- and tasty: daring, towering stacks that would draw any architect's envy and shaped creations that resemble dogs and cars and even carry bags! In the generously illustrated Aces of Cakes, Duff shares his secrets and enthusiasm, making this a conversation piece that will make you hungry.

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ISBN-13: 9780061703010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/20/2009
Pages: 307
Sales rank: 225,974
Product dimensions: 8.22 (w) x 10.26 (h) x 0.98 (d)

Meet the Author

Duff Goldman studied at the Corcoran School in Washington, D.C., and was a young graffiti artist of some notoriety. He started working for acclaimed Baltimore chef Cindy Wolf while attending the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He studied pastries at the Culinary Institute of America and worked at the French Laundry under acclaimed pastry chef Steven Durfee, at the Vail Cascade Hotel and Resort, and at Todd English's Olives restaurant in Washington, D.C., before opening Charm City Cakes in Baltimore in 2000. Duff is also a sculptor and artist, and a musician who plays bass in the rock band . . . soihadto . . . . He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Milk-n-Cookies

Posted October 28, 2009

Amazing!!

I just got my copy at a book signing by the entire bakery in Baltimore! What an amazing and warm group of individuals! They were so sweet, everyone was there, even the intern (i forgot his name, yikes!)!! Mary Alice was so outgoing, Geof was, well, Geof, and Duff was doing that laugh of his and I even met his brother, Willie, who wrote the book with Duff! They are just like they seem on the show, very laid back and they seem to be a big happy family. I haven't put the book down, it is so full of everything anyone could want to know about the story of Charm City Cakes and Duff and Ace of Cakes and everyone who works there! It is so well written and I think Duff and Willie really wrote the book, not some anonymous writer! How Cool! It is not a cook book, Duff says so in THE VERY FIRST LINE OF THE BOOK! I think he wrote this one for the fans, but, as a cake artist myself, I hope the next book is, well, not a cook book, but more like a text book on how they do the incredible things they do. That would be a most welcome addition to all the books about cakes out there. This book, however, is beautiful, lucid, and an amazing story with more detail than anyone could possibly ingest in one sitting! Grand Slam for Duff, Willie, and Charm City Cakes!!!

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RufusRW

Posted November 22, 2009

The Show is Great - The Book is OK

First of all let me say that this book is poorly edited and that's being nice. There are so many obvious spelling and grammar mistakes it's unbelievble. At times I had to read a sentence more than once just to figure out what they were trying to say.

I absolutely love this TV show and love the people who work at the bakery. Geof and Mary Alice could take their comedy on the road. But the book... eh. Not so much. The entire second half of the book is all about the crew and the production behind the scenes. If you're into how a reality show is made, I guess it would be interesting. If you're not, it isn't. The best parts of the first half are when each of the employees gets to write their own little blurb about who they are and how they came to the bakery. Duff's story is interesting, but he repeats part of it several times in the book.

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SUGAMAMA3

Posted October 24, 2009

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VERY DISAPPOINTED!!!!!!!!

I JUST GOT THIS BIG BEHIND BOOK AND NOT ONE BASIC YELLOW CAKE RECIPES AND ONE SIMPLE BUTTER CREAM RECIPE. YES HIS IS INTERING BUT WHAT ARE SOME OF THE RECEPES FOR HIS CAKES THAT MADE HIM FAMOUS. IF I WOULD HAVE KNOWN THIS WAS GOING TO BE AN AUTOBIOGRY I WOULD HAVE NEVER ORDERED 2 BOOKS. THIS BOOK DOESN'T BELONG IN THE COOKING SECTION THIS BOOK BELONG IN THE REFRENCE SECTION. IF YOU WANT TO BY A GOOD COOKBOOK TRY GUY'S FROM DINER,DRIVE THOUGH AND DIVES.

VERY UPSET!!!!!

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Anonymous

Posted April 25, 2010

A must-have!

Anyone who is a fan of "Ace of Cakes" must have this book. It's a great collection of the work that Charm City Cakes has done up until the time of publishing. It's a great coffee-table book, too! Anyone would enjoy this book.
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Posted February 24, 2010

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if you love the show and to decorate cakes you'll love this book

I bought this book for my son's birthday, he loves the show and the book. we decorate cakes for birthdays and this give us so many new ideas. loved it .
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ALB620

Posted February 22, 2010

Great book for fans of the show!

When I enjoy a show or movie, I love to get more detail about the people or characters in the show, as well as a look at what happens behind the scenes. While I am a little overwhelmed at the amount of information in this book, I am fully enjoying reading the book and gaining a new perspective on my favorite Food Network show!
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templarjdm

Posted February 20, 2010

Why?

It's a coffee table book that they sell in the food section. There isn't any insight or explanation, no technical know-how; just pretty pictures of "cakes" that are in most cases composed of mostly inedible material. You could buy a bean bag chair, a tickle-me-Elmo, and a cake from the supermarket and you'd essentially have a "Charm City" cake. The only thing more ridiculous than the premise of the book/ show is thew haughty, self-congratulatory attitude of the "bakers" themselves. In fairness, I think that there are many more talented cake shops in the country, which I find irritating as I live not far away from Baltimore and would like to support the locals.

Also , Duff is a douche who wears jerseys from every other NHL franchise but doesn't support the team thirty minutes away.
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mmgalls

Posted February 13, 2010

Ace Of Cakes

If you love the show, you'll love the book. I gave this to my son for Christmas and he really enjoys it, I have read it also and it was a lot of fun to read and very interesting on how things are really done on the show.
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Flagstafffan

Posted February 13, 2010

Duffy Rules!

What a great book! I am a fan of Ace of Cakes, so it was fun reading in detail about Duff and the crew. The photos were fun to look at. Only thing missing was Duff's infectious laugh!!
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Anonymous

Posted February 6, 2010

great book

love the show, was fun to see behind the scenes. great pics and stories.
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Anonymous

Posted January 23, 2010

Great gift idea.

This was a gift and the receiver was excited to read from cover to cover.
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Alazala1

Posted January 9, 2010

Great book

I loved the book, although I would have like to see more pictures as how the cakes were ensambled...or how the cakes are put together....other than that I loved the book!!! Great pictures....
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chloes_gma

Posted December 21, 2009

Love the show--Love the book

I bought this for my mom who loves the show. She was thrilled and enjoyed it very much. I am hoping she'll pass it along to me, but I'm sure she wants it for a coffee table book.

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Anonymous

Posted December 19, 2009

good companion to the tv show

if you enjoy watching the tv show, you'll like this book. gives more information on duff and his fellow workers. also gives more incite to the show and it's background. very enjoyable.
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