Ace of Cakes

It's a testosterone-filled bakery as Tony Siragusa, Jason Cameron and the crew of DIY's Man Caves invades Charm City Cakes to outfit Duff Goldman with a new guy-themed basement.

Is the economic fate of the nation in the hands of a man who doesn't own a tie? Duff Goldman is commissioned to make a cake modeled after the New York Stock Exchange and the chef himself gets to ring the opening bell.

Duff Goldman gets an impossible deadline to make a cake to take to Oprah's TV set in Chicago. Then Charm City Cakes gets a visit and a performance from the country rock trio The Avett Brothers.

Charm City Cakes must concoct a living crossword wedding cake. Chef Duff and his decorators participate in a star-studded USO gala, then deliver the cake to the everyday servicemen and servicewomen.

Charm City Cakes practices its foreign language skills as the decorators take on two formidable historic figures: a terra cotta warrior from China and a huge replica of Russia's St. Basil's Cathedral.

CCC gets its biggest cake challenge ever when Duff and his bakery are commissioned to do a life-sized motorcycle groom's cake, complete with ignition. Plus, it's paired with a sky-high 10-tiered photo cake for the same wedding.

Chef Duff trades shots with Haloti Ngata of the Baltimore Ravens, and the bakery staff muses about pets as the cakes go to the dogs.

Charm City Cakes gets in the holiday spirit by decking the halls, sipping the eggnog and hitting the golf course ... literally. The bakery staff chops a tree, decorates ornaments and sneaks around town playing Secret Santa.

Chef Duff helps a romantic firefighter find a very memorable way to propose. Then he lets Joe tag along for a taste of big city life as he prepares a dessert buffet for a high-end New York PR firm celebrating Christmas in July.

The team heads out to NAMM where they check out the latest and greatest in the music world and create an upright, oversized guitar for the 20th anniversary of Acoustic Guitar Magazine.

Star Wars geeks unite as Duff and his staff are invited to Lucas Films in California to create a galactic masterpiece for the wrap party of The Clone Wars.