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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 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. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (80)

Great Gift for Ace of Cakes Lovers
I purchased this as a gift for a close family friend. She is in college and a HUGE "Ace of Cakes" fan. The first one sent was mis -placed / -directed in her dorm, so I notified Amazon and they sent another immediately, via overnight, free of charge. That said, she absolutely loved the book! Great stories and pictures.

LOVE THE ACE OF CAKES BOOK
The Ace of Cakes is one of our favorite shows that my kids and I watch together.This book is a coffee table conversation starter - we LOVE IT!

Okay if you want to know about his business
I ordered this book looking for tips and tricks. Sadly the book was mostly about how the business was set up and run. Also the TV show features heavily. there are some tips in there, just not as much as I had expected.

This book is Aces!
Could not put it down.Duff and friends have had amazing lives, and it was a joy to read about their antics.Very well written and interesting.I loved all of the cake photos...just wish they could have been larger!

Ace of Books
Enjoyed reading about Duff, his family and his pals at the bakery.Also loved all the great photos! ... Read more

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Chapters: William Goldman, Christopher Guest, Peter Cook, Fred Savage, Peter Falk, André the Giant, Chris Sarandon, Wallace Shawn, Carol Kane, Cary Elwes, Billy Crystal, Mel Smith, Robin Wright Penn, Mandy Patinkin, Dread Pirate Roberts, Inigo Montoya, Prince Humperdinck, Willoughby Gray, Betsy Brantley, Margery Mason. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 157. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 9 January 1995) was a British satirist, writer and comedian. An extremely influential figure within British comedy, he is widely regarded as the leading light of the British satire boom of the 1960s. He has been described by Stephen Fry as 'the funniest man who ever drew breath'. Cook is very closely associated with the anti-establishment style of comedy that first emerged in Britain and the USA in the late 1950s. Cook was born at "Shearbridge", Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon, the only son and eldest of the three children of Alexander Edward (Alec) Cook (1906-1984), a colonial civil servant, and his wife Ethel Catherine Margaret, née Mayo (1908-1994). He was educated at Radley College and later Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he read French and German. Cook meant to become a career diplomat, but unfortunately Britain "had run out of colonies", as he put it. Although largely politically apathetic for most of his life, he did join Cambridge University Liberal Club. It was at Pembroke that he performed and wrote comedy sketches as a member of the prestigious Cambridge Footlights Club, of which he became President in 1960. While still at university, Cook wrote professionally for Kenneth Williams, for whom he created a successful West End revue show called One Over the Eight, before finding prominence in his own right as part of a four man group performing a ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23547 ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Princess Bride, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a Bridge Too Far, Chaplin, Last Action Hero, Mission: Impossible Ii, the Stepford Wives, All the President's Men, Marathon Man, Maverick, Misery, Fierce Creatures, Absolute Power, the General's Daughter, Twins, the Ghost and the Darkness, Magic, Dreamcatcher, the Chamber, Hearts in Atlantis, the Hot Rock, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, the Great Waldo Pepper, Harper, Year of the Comet, Mr. Horn. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: A Bridge Too Far is a 1977 American epic war film based on the 1974 book of the same name by Cornelius Ryan, adapted by William Goldman. It was produced by Joseph E. Levine and Richard P. Levine and directed by Richard Attenborough. The film tells the story of the failure of Operation Market Garden during World War II, the Allied attempt to break through German lines and seize several bridges, including the bridge over the Lower Rhine, in the occupied Netherlands, with the main objective of Allied armour outflanking the Siegfried Line at its northern extremity. The name for the film comes from an unconfirmed comment made by British Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning, deputy commander of the First Allied Airborne Army, who told Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, the operation's architect, before the operation, "I think we may be going a bridge too far." The ensemble cast includes Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Hardy Krüger, Laurence Olivier, Robert Redford, and Maximilian Schell. The music was scored by John Addison, who served with XXX Corps during Market Garden. The film begins with a montage of actual archival film footage and narrated by a Dutch woman, Kate Ter Horst (Li...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=89397 ... Read more

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Chapters: Musicals by Michael Kunze, Musicals by William Goldman, Musicals Written by Students, Rodgers and Hammerstein Musicals, the Sound of Music, the King and I, State Fair, Carousel, South Pacific, Cinderella, Elisabeth, Flower Drum Song, Dance of the Vampires, Senioritis, Rex, Pipe Dream, Allegro, Me and Juliet, Mozart!, a Family Affair. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 174. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Sound of Music is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. Many songs from the musical have become standards, including the title song "The Sound of Music", "Edelweiss", "My Favorite Things", "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" and "Do-Re-Mi". The original Broadway production, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel, opened in November 1959, and the show has enjoyed numerous productions and revivals since then. It has also been made into an Academy Award-winning 1965 film musical starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The Sound of Music was the final musical written by Rodgers and Hammerstein; Hammerstein died of cancer nine months after the Broadway premiere. After viewing The Trapp Family, a 1956 Austrian film about the von Trapp family, and its 1958 sequel, The Trapp Family in America (Die Trapp-Familie in Amerika), stage director Vincent J. Donehue thought that the project would be perfect for his friend Mary Martin; Broadway producers Leland Hayward and Richard Halliday (Martin's husband) agreed. The producers originally envisioned a nonmusical play that would be written by Lindsay and Crouse and that would feature songs from the repertoire of the Trapp Family Singers. Then they decided to add an original so...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=30019 ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Silent Gondoliers, the Princess Bride, the Color of Light, Soldier in the Rain, No Way to Treat a Lady, Marathon Man, Magic, Brothers. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Princess Bride is a 1973 novel written by William Goldman. It was originally published in the United States by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. The book combines elements of comedy, adventure, fantasy, romance and fairy tale. It is presented as if it were an abridgment of a work by S. Morgenstern, and Goldman's 'commentary' asides are constant throughout. It was made into a film of the same name in 1987 by Rob Reiner, and an attempt to adapt it into a musical was made by Adam Guettel. In a Renaissance-era fairy-tale world, a beautiful woman named Buttercup lives on a farm in the fictional country of Florin. She delights in verbally abusing the farm hand Westley by demanding that he perform chores for her. Westley's only answer is "As you wish", which represents his great affection for her. After Buttercup realizes the true meaning of the words, as well as the fact that she returns his love, Westley leaves to seek his fortune so they can marry. Buttercup later receives word that his ship was attacked at sea by the Dread Pirate Roberts, who is notorious for killing all those whose vessels he boards. Believing Westley to be dead, Buttercup is forcibly engaged to marry Prince Humperdinck, the heir to the throne of Florin. Before the wedding, Buttercup is kidnapped by a trio of outlaws: the Sicilian criminal genius Vizzini, the Spanish fencing master Inigo Montoya, and the enormous and mighty Turkish wrestler Fezzik. A masked man in black follows them across the sea and up the Cliffs of Insanity, whereupon Vizzini orders Inigo to stop him. Before the man...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3681524 ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary.Chapters: The Princess Bride, Marathon Man, Magic, Soldier in the Rain, No Way to Treat a Lady. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Princess Bride is a 1987 American film, based on the 1973 novel of the same name by William Goldman, combining comedy, adventure, romance, and fantasy. The film was directed by Rob Reiner from a screenplay by Goldman. The story is presented in the movie as a book being read by a grandfather (Peter Falk) to his sick grandson (Fred Savage), thus effectively preserving this novel's narrative style. This film is number 50 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies" and number 88 on The American Film Institute's (AFI) "AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions" listing the 100 greatest film love stories of all time. The film is an enactment of the following story read by a sick boy's grandfather (Falk) as the boy (Savage) sits in bed listening, framed and occasionally interrupted by scenes of the reading. A beautiful young woman named Buttercup (Wright) lives on a farm in the fictional country of Florin. When she orders the farmhand Westley (Elwes) to do chores for her, he answers "As you wish." Eventually she realizes he loves her and admits her love for him. Westley leaves to seek his fortune so they can marry, but his ship is attacked by the Dread Pirate Roberts. Five years later, believing Westley is dead, Buttercup reluctantly agrees to marry Prince Humperdinck (Sarandon), heir to the throne of Florin. Before the wedding, she is kidnapped by three outlaws: a short Sicilian boss named Vizzini (Shawn), a gigantic wrestler from Greenland named Fezzik (André), and a Spanish fencing master named Inigo Montoya (Patinkin), who seeks revenge against a man with six fingers on his right hand who killed his father. The out...http://booksllc.net/?id=31153 ... Read more

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Chapters: Films Based on William Goldman's Works, the Princess Bride, Christopher Guest, Peter Cook, Fred Savage, Peter Falk, André the Giant, Chris Sarandon, Wallace Shawn, Carol Kane, Cary Elwes, Billy Crystal, Mel Smith, Robin Wright Penn, Mandy Patinkin, Marathon Man, Magic, Dread Pirate Roberts, Inigo Montoya, Soldier in the Rain, Prince Humperdinck, No Way to Treat a Lady, James Goldman, Willoughby Gray, Betsy Brantley, Margery Mason. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 170. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 9 January 1995) was a British satirist, writer and comedian. An extremely influential figure within British comedy, he is widely regarded as the leading light of the British satire boom of the 1960s. He has been described by Stephen Fry as 'the funniest man who ever drew breath'. Cook is very closely associated with the anti-establishment style of comedy that first emerged in Britain and the USA in the late 1950s. Cook was born at "Shearbridge", Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon, the only son and eldest of the three children of Alexander Edward (Alec) Cook (1906-1984), a colonial civil servant, and his wife Ethel Catherine Margaret, née Mayo (1908-1994). He was educated at Radley College and later Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he read French and German. Cook meant to become a career diplomat, but unfortunately Britain "had run out of colonies", as he put it. Although largely politically apathetic for most of his life, he did join Cambridge University Liberal Club. It was at Pembroke that he performed and wrote comedy sketches as a member of the prestigious Cambridge Footlights Club, of which he became President in 1960. While still at university, Cook wrote professionally for Kenneth Williams, for whom he created a successful West En...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23547 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: William Goldman, Michael Jordan, Elisha Gray, Rosalind Solomon, Stansfield Turner, Toni Kukoč, Jacqueline Carey, Josh Server, Robert Reed, Robbie Gold, Gene Melchiorre, Kevin Clark, Patrick Burns, Ross Baumgarten, Robert Wrenn, James Goldman, Karen May, David Seltzer, John Preskill, Brian Levant, John Lupton, Hugh "Shorty" Ray. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963) is a retired American professional basketball player, active businessman, and majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats. His biography on the National Basketball Association (NBA) website states, "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time." Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s. After a standout career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he led the Tar Heels to a National Championship in 1982, Jordan joined the NBA's Chicago Bulls in 1984. He quickly emerged as a league star, entertaining crowds with his prolific scoring. His leaping ability, illustrated by performing slam dunks from the free throw line in slam dunk contests, earned him the nicknames "Air Jordan" and "His Airness". He also gained a reputation for being one of the best defensive players in basketball. In 1991, he won his first NBA championship with the Bulls, and followed that achievement with titles in 1992 and 1993, securing a "three-peat". Although Jordan abruptly retired from basketball at the beginning of the 199394 NBA season to pursue a career in baseball, he rejoined the Bulls in 1995 and led them to three additional championships (1996, 1997, and 1998) as well as an NBA-record 72 regular-season wi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=20455 ... Read more

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Chapters: William Goldman, Coen Brothers, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Tom Stoppard, Alan Jay Lerner, Mel Brooks, Billy Wilder, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Towne, Ring Lardner, Jr., Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Roger Avary, Christopher Mcquarrie, Pedro Almodóvar, Preston Sturges, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Academy Award for Best Writing, Paul Haggis, Cameron Crowe, John Briley, Bo Goldman, William Inge, Michel Gondry, Sofia Coppola, Paddy Chayefsky, Diablo Cody, Dustin Lance Black, Emeric Pressburger, Charlie Kaufman, Sidney Sheldon, Budd Schulberg, Jeremy Larner, Ronald Bass, Neil Jordan, Michael Arndt, Waldo Pressman Salt, Steve Tesich, Jane Campion, Julian Fellowes, Pamela Wallace, Albert Lamorisse, Muriel Box, Claude Lelouch, Alan Ball, Robert Benton, John Patrick Shanley, I. A. L. Diamond, Frederic Raphael, Charles Brackett, Robert C. Jones, Mark Boal, James R. Webb, Norman Krasna, William Rose, Lamar Trotti, James Bernard, Marshall Brickman, Pietro Germi, Clarence Greene, David S. Ward, Frank Pierson, Sonya Levien, T. E. B. Clarke, Nedrick Young, Robert Pirosh, Colin Welland, Callie Khouri, Walter Reisch, Nancy Dowd, Benjamin Glazer, Stanley Shapiro, Pierre Bismuth, Sydney Box, Michael Kanin, Richard L. Breen, Bruce Joel Rubin, D. M. Marshman, Jr., Richard Schweizer, Ennio de Concini, George Wells, William Ludwig, Marc Norman, Harold Jacob Smith, Maurice Richlin, Robert Moresco, Pierre Uytterhoeven. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 558. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 October 10, 1985), best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, writer, actor, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio. Noted for his innovative dramatic productions as well as his distinctive voice and personality, Welles is w...http://booksllc.net/?id=22196 ... Read more