I asked Goldman if he ever thought that his baking skills would rocket him to celebrity status. The Irvine Spectrum location is bright and upbeat with Top 40 tunes playing. “And I got a lot of friends and family in Orange County, and they’re all, ‘We don’t want to drive all the way to Hollywood,’” he said. Goldman said he decided to go to Orange County because Orange County was coming to him - sometimes by the party busload. “Keeping up with the Kardashians” has filmed at the West Hollywood studio, so has “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Katy Perry shot her music video “Birthday Cake” there (for which his team made 70 cakes). Companies like Netflix and Snapchat have gone there for team-building events. The Cakemix shops are not just for kids though. I know that look because I have that look all the time: ‘I can’t believe I pulled it off!’ ” It’s really cool watching their facial expressions when they leave. “They’re getting dirty, and they’re making stuff. “The coolest thing is we’re all sucked into our phones all the time, you know, and the kids will have their phones out, but only to find reference material,” he says. The first Duff’s Cakemix opened on Melrose in West Hollywood in 2012. “I was like, ‘Man, this would be a really good store.” He put blank cakes in front of each kid’s chair. The idea to start a cake decorating studio came to him when he was doing a kids event. “Rich people can afford cakes we like making cakes for people who can really use one.”įor a recent episode, he made a cake for an LAPD vs. “We’re trying to do charity events, feel-good stuff,” he says. And he’s filming season two of “Duff Takes the Cake.” He also hosts and judges the “Kids Baking Championship” with actress Valerie Bertinelli. Duff” (with baker Buddy Valastro) airs in a couple of weeks. We’re not into, like, things.”Ī new season of “Buddy Vs. “I drive a pickup truck, and I don’t own a tie,” he said. And he and his wife road-tripped to national parks for their honeymoon. He plays bass in an Elvis tribute band and the chef-led cover band Foie Grock. The baker said a career highlight might be making a life-size, spinning R2-D2 cake for George Lucas.Ĭakes have made Duff millions, but he keeps it low-key. It lasted 10 seasons, wrapping up in 2011, about the time he opened Charm City Cakes West in Los Angeles. The Food Network eventually came knocking, and “Ace of Cakes” began airing in 2006. And they started cranking out some crazy cakes. In 2002, he opened Charm City Cakes in Baltimore with some of his artist friends. So Goldman graduated from University of Maryland with degrees in history and philosophy - and then enrolled at the Culinary Institute of America in California. In high school, he dabbled in graffiti art and metal sculpture and wanted to train to become a pastry chef after graduation, but his parents were leery. And Goldman says they are cut from the same creative cloth. And I’m like a troglodyte.”īut she likes cake. “She is really well put together,” he said. Another was made of meat, with a mashed potato frosting. Goldman made five cakes for the occasion. They wed last year among the T-Rexes at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles. who he met on Tinder, to marry him by tying a piece of butcher twine around her ring finger. “Me and my wife are pretty earthy, just hippies, like, hippie rednecks.”ĭuff asked Johnna Colbry.
“It’s awesome, an old A frame,” he said, adding that he’s building a greenhouse. When your cake is decorated, you can take it home - or just eat it there.ĭuff recently moved to a new house in Topanga Canyon. Bins of tools, from molds to piping bags, are at your disposal. You pick a pre-baked cupcake or cake (chocolate or Funfetti), your icing (buttercream or fondant) and your toppings. If you’ve ever been to a Color Me Mine studio, the shop looks like that, only with baked goods instead of ceramics. On Monday, he opened the Irvine Spetcrum location, the first Duff’s Cakemix in Orange County. Goldman is best known for using everything from blowtorches to saws to build over-the-top cakes (a life-size elephant, a giant box of crayons) on his popular Food Network show, which ran from 2006 to 2011.
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resident who likes the TV show “Ace of Cakes,” or even if you just like cake, you’ll be happy to know that pastry wizard Duff Goldman just opened a shop in Irvine. customers kept asking, he opened another Duff’s Cakemix shop in Irvine
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