"Next Great Baker" Casting Call!

TLC's Smash Hit NEXT GREAT BAKER Is At It Again! Are you a natural-born baker or cake artist? Can you make amazing masterpieces, crazy confections or over-the-top cakes? Could you be Season 3's Next Great Baker?

Think you or someone you know has what it takes to out-bake the competition? Then it's GO TIME ... apply for Season 3 NOW! TLC and Buddy Valastro (Cake Boss and Kitchen Boss) are back again, looking to launch the career of another promising baker.

The winner of Season 3 will take home a whopping grand prize of $100,000.00 and an opportunity to work at Carlo's Bakery. But the competition will be fiercer, the weekly challenges more cutthroat and the judging no-holds-barred.

Still think you got what it takes? Download the application here and e-mail it to NGB3Casting@highnoontv.com. Tell your story, and send recent photos of you & your work ASAP!

Eiffel Tower Cake Workshop with Mike McCarey!

The 4-Day Workshop with Mike McCarey and Lauren Kitchens was FABULOUS! 100% of those attending loved, loved, loved the worshops: Mike McCarey was truly amazing as he explained in fine detail the thinking process involved with planning a 3D cake.  Here is a peek of an Eiffel Tower cake being made during class.

Special thanks again to Mike McCarey and Buddy Valastro for making the venue (Buddy's Lackawanna Center) possible.

Character Sculpting 101 with Lauren Kitchens and Mike McCarey!

Character Sculpting 101 with Lauren Kitchens and Mike McCarey was BIG fun! Members were overwhelmed with the spectacular kitchen space at Buddy Valestro's ("Cake Boss") Lackawanna Center facility where all Meetups with Mike and Lauren are being held. I heard nothing but accolades about the focused and thorough instruction by Mike and Lauren, and as an extra special treat, members were able to chat and take photos with Mauro Castano, Carlos Bakery ("Cake Boss").

Lauren Kitchens and Mike McCarey headline NYC Cake Decorators first 4-Day hands-on workshops. Registrants came as far as Washington DC and Tennessee,  and Zacharoula Christou, owner of Sugar Designs, flew from Greece to take today's class! Now that's someone crazy about cake!

Our sincerest thanks to Mike and Buddy for the availability of the Lackawana Center, and to Assistant Organizers Ayana Brantley  and Marisol Cuevas for their outstanding coordination of this event!