Food TV

OK, I know. It’s been a long time since my last post. Far too long actually. For this I would like to apologize to all of my readers. Or should I say reader? Heehee… A large part of this has to do with family issues, and that’s all I’ll say about that. The other part is the subject of my Why, oh why, Wednesday. Who would have thought that the writers strike would have such an effect on the Food Network of all places. I don’t know for sure if that is what has had such an effect, but I do know that over the last couple weeks there hasn’t been a whole lot I’ve wanted to watch. Except Good Eats of course, but I think one day a week of gushing about Alton Brown is all you can really handle. After all this is a blog about the food network as a whole. That being said, I have been checking every day and only seeing one or two things that I want to watch. I know what you’re thinking. At least blog about those one or two things! Well ok then. Sheesh.

There was, finally, a new episode of Ace of Cakes this week. And, it combined two of my favorite things. Duff and his crew, and Harry Potter!!! Hooray!!!! The crew at Charm City cakes got the call to make a non edible cake featuring Hogwarts Castle, with the grounds surrounding it being the actual cake. The episode opened with the crew doing things “magically”. It was cute and totally Ace of Cakes. Everyone expounding on what their magical abilities. One person even telling Duff her magical power is “making you shut up, and go away…” Heehee, gotta love that. So Duff had to go out of town, to Texas, fulfilling an obligation to the nice people who sent him a head in a box. While he was in Texas, Anna and Richard worked full force on carving and fondanting the whole of Hogwarts castle out of styrofoam. Within days blocks of foam slowly turned into a very familiar castle. Once Duff made it back to town Hogwarts was loaded up into the “Fun Mover” RV for the long drive from Baltimore to Hollywood, CA! The trip started out pretty uneventful, until the fun mover decided to have some fun of it’s own. A blown tire and radiator hose later and Duff successfully made it to his destination in sunny California.
Anna and Richard flew down in time to finish making the grounds and lake of the famous wizards school. Together they worked their butts off making the whole of the Forbidden Forest, and lake, although I didn’t see Hagrid’s Hut anywhere. Harumph… All in all they did an amazing job and in the end the castle looked like a scale model more than a cake. After the cake was finished the three of them were put into a stretch limo to make the long and arduous, half block, trip to the premiere where they got to walk down the red carpet.
While there they Duff got feedback from Dan Radcliffe. That’s right, Harry Potter himself. He said that the cake was fantastic, and about the same size as the model that they use for wide shots of the castle. Even joking that they could just use the cake in the next film. What a compliment!!! Duff, Anna, Richard, you did a fan-freaking-tastic job!!!

By the way, congratulations to the folks over at Charm City Cakes for their 4th season of Ace of Cakes!!! And heads up to the fans, according to the blog over at Charm City’s website, they just finished filming season 4 and Mary Alice has a broken arm. Get well soon Mary Alice, we love you!!!

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