History Series / AceOfCakes

''Ace of Cakes'' is a DocuSoap about Charm City Cakes, a custom cake bakery in Baltimore, Maryland, run by a man named Duff Goldman. The show revolves around the wacky hijinks of the staff, the making of the cakes (each episode revolves around a select few and especially complex cakes), and the reactions of the people receiving the cakes.

''Ace of Cakes'' is a DocuSoap about Charm City Cakes, a custom cake bakery in Baltimore, Maryland. The show revolves around the wacky hijinks of the staff, the making of the cakes (each episode revolves around a select few and especially complex cakes), and the reactions of the people receiving the cakes.

** In Jan. 2013, Duff appeared on a ''WebVideo/{{Smosh}}'' vid to present the guys a cake to celebrate 2 billion views - which they promptly [[StuffBlowingUp blew up together]]

** Duff appeared on ''Series/NoReservations''' "[[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad Generic Holiday]] [[ChristmasEpisode Episode]]." In a sea of delicious beef dishes, he made a cake shaped like a turkey and surrounded by ''every holiday icon he could find''.

* MysteriousBenefactor: The unnamed VIP client who asked for the dressage cake. When they explained they don't ship cakes outside of driving distance and jokingly added that the client would need a private jet, they ''provided one just for the cake'' (albeit a very small private jet).
** Even by the end of the episode, no one but Mary Alice knew who the customer was--the only things that Duff and the rest of his employees (and the audience) were able to gather about the customers was that the client was fairly wealthy (especially since they had a private jet, albeit a small one) and they're into horseback-riding (the cake that was ordered was made to have an equestrian-theme), which in itself is still an indicator that the client must be fairly wealthy.

** Geof's real name is "Geoffrey" and Duff's real name is also "Jeffrey" (note the different spellings), but most people wouldn't know in the latter's case--he's had the nickname "Duff" for pretty much his entire life and even his family calls him "Duff" on the show.

* TheAlcoholic[=/=]TheStoner:

** Geof [[EruditeStoner appears to be stoned]] a ''lot'' of the time when doing his talking-head shots.

* ChristmasEpisode / EveryoneIsChristianAtChristmas: Duff's Jewish, and in one episode, he found it very amusing that he was the one who got everyone into the holiday spirit ([[IncendiaryExponent with fireworks, of course]]).

* [[GirlScoutsAreEvil Girl Scouts Are a Ravenous Horde]]

* ShoutOut / TakeThat: To their TLC counterparts: "You need to be the ''boss'' of the cake". "You (the puppet bakers) aren't working out, I'm bumping you to the minor leagues"--[[PutOnABus stuffed in a box]] with a "Jersey Or Bust" sign (if they really went there, they'd be returned covered in flour and dipped in icing).

* TimeTravel / CloseEnoughTimeline: Parodied in the final episode, which had a ''Film/BackToTheFuture''-theme, where [[spoiler:screwing around with the bakery's flux capacitor caused the bakers to become office workers, bugs, and random hazmat suit (really painter's suits) wearers. ''Really'' screwing up the flux capacitor caused Geof and Duff to become workers at a cake box factory]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Duff flipping the bird, while dressed in a bird costume, which incidentally covered both hands.
** One of Mary Alice's shirts ([[ProductPlacement available for purchase]] [[http://www.threadless.com/product/456/Rock_Out_With_Your_Cock_Out here]]) is also a VisualPun.

* IncendiaryExponent: Duff '''never''' misses a chance to shoot off fireworks, and given even ''half'' a chance, he '''will''' find a way to put fireworks into (or at least onto) a cake.

* SassySecretary: Mary Alice, who's the general manager at Charm City Cakes--alongside Geoff, Mary Alice is basically like Duff's second-in-command and handles almost all the non-cooking related aspects (such as booking and organizing appointments with clients) and claims to be one of the few people to have the ability "to get Duff to do what he's supposed to do."

* FormerTeenRebel: Played with in Duff's case--he's still a rebel, [[RuleAbidingRebel just in a more focused and]]] ''[[[RuleAbidingRebel mostly]]'' [[RuleAbidingRebel law-abiding way.]]

* FormerTeenRebel: Played with in Duff's case--he's still a rebel, just in a more focused and ''mostly'' law-abiding way.

* WackyMarriageProposal: A few times--the CCC-staff has helped with a few of them, and there have been situations where the staff got worried that the person being proposed to might say "no," [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments but they always end up saying yes.]] For one client that Duff made a proposal cake for, Duff promised the man who ordered the proposal cake a 10%-discount on his wedding cake for if his girlfriend said "yes" to his proposal.

* TimeTravel / CloseEnoughTimeline: Parodied in the final episode, which had a ''Film/BackToTheFuture''-theme, where [[spoiler:screwing around with the bakery's flux capacitor caused the bakers to become office workers, bugs, and random haz-mat suit (really painter's suits) wearers. ''Really'' screwing up the flux capacitor caused Geof and Duff to become workers at a cake box factory]].

* WackyMarriageProposal: A few times--the CCC-staff has helped with a few of them, and there have been situations where the staff got worried that the person being proposed to might say "no," [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments but they always end up saying yes.]]

** Duff appeared on ''Series/NoReservations''' "[[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad Generic Holiday]] [[ChristmasEpisode Episode]]". In a sea of delicious beef dishes, he made a cake shaped like a turkey and surrounded by ''every holiday icon he could find''.

* IncendiaryExponent: Duff '''never''' misses a chance to shoot off fireworks, and given even ''half'' a chance, he '''will''' find a way to put fireworks into a cake.

** Even by the end of the episode, no one but Mary Alice knew who the customer was--the only things Duff and the other employees (and the viewers) are able to gather about the customer were that 1.) The client's financially well-off (especially considering that they had a private jet) and 2.) They're into horseback-riding, because the cake they made had an equestrian-theme.

* SassySecretary: Mary Alice, who's the general manager at Charm City Cakes.

** The [=R2D2=] cake, in addition to being life-size with a turning head, also had to look specifically like the ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' version of R2. This meant that not only did it have to look a little busted-up but also match the "painterly" style of the show, which went against the shop's no-visible-brushstrokes ideal. They were able to do everything aside from getting R2's head to turn--it was beyond Duff's engineering skills but fortunately a handyman at Skywalker Ranch was able to rig up a little something and save the day.
* SquareCubeLaw: Invoked in the giant cupcake episode. Duff originally just wanted to make a really big cupcake, but after crunching the numbers, he and the rest of the staff realized that there was no way the cake would ever be able to support its own weight.

* TrueCompanions: The staff of Charm City Cakes.

* LondonTown: The bakers went there to make a "Creator/WilliamShakespeare-Kabob" for the Globe Theatre and a pork-tacular cake for a "snout-to-tail" restaurant. The chef treated Duff and Geoff to a [[IAteWhat pig face sandwich]] for breakfast, which Duff (despite being Jewish) tore into while poor Geoff seemed like [[ForeignQueasine he was only eating it to be polite]].

* SquareCubeLaw: Invoked in the giant cupcake episode. Duff originally just wanted to make a really big cupcake, but after crunching the numbers, he and the rest of the staff realized that there was no way the cake would ever be able to support its own weight.

* SquareCubeLaw: Invoked in the giant cupcake episode. Duff originally just wanted to make a really big cupcake, but after crunching the numbers, he and the rest of the staff realized that there was no way the cake would ever be able to support its own weight.

** In Jan. 2013, Duff appeared on a ''WebVideo/{{Smosh}}'' vid to present the guys a cake to celebrate 2 billion views - which they promptly [[StuffBlowingUp blew up together.

->"We do it all--make it '''''bigger''''', make it '''''badder''''', make it '''''awesome'''''! For me, it's all about the cake!"

* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:The end of the final episode parodies this.]]

* CarryingACake: Dropped cakes are ''very'' rare, but have happened. What happens more often than not is that the cake will self-destruct (collapsing, fondant cracking and/or sagging, the environment damaging the decorations, and other mishaps). There was also the time that the terribly, horribly unprofessional maid staff at a hotel in which they were staying prior to a delivery cut up their sheet cakes and ''ate them''. They were able to provide sheet cakes after a local bakery let them use their kitchen.

** In Jan. 2013, Duff appeared on a ''WebVideo/{{Smosh}}'' vid to present the guys a cake to celebrate 2 billion views - which they promptly [[StuffBlowingUp blew up together.]]
* CuteKitten / KindheartedCatLover: Several members of the staff (including Duff) have pet cats. Elena even has a "Mt. Cutemore" photoshop of her cats.

* [[DoesNotLikeSpam Does Not Like Cupcakes]]: Duff despises them despite (or maybe because of) trying to make the world's largest cupcake and failing. He stated that one of the reasons he hates them is because "people who make cupcakes think they can bake."

* KnuckleTattoos: The "BAKE" "CAKE" ads.[[spoiler: It's actually a hand model; Duff's knuckles were way too hairy.]]
* TheLancer: Geof is this to [[TheHero Duff]]. Duff, as the owner/head of the bakery, oversees the production and usually doesn't do a lot of the hands-on stuff--Geof, on the other hand, is a tad standoffish and does a lot of the really, really difficult stuff.

* PlatonicLifePartners:
** Duff and Mary Alice.
** Ben and Katherine.
*** Basically the entire staff could qualify for this.

** One of Mary Alice's shirts ([[ProductPlacement available for purchase]] [[http://www.threadless.com/product/456/Rock_Out_With_Your_Cock_Out here]]) is also a VisualPun.

* RoadTripPlot: [[http://www.withlovenregards.com/online-cake-delivery online cakes delivery]]: Duff and Geof went on a road trip to bring delicious cakes to people they couldn't due to the no-fly rule, and visit [[SoBadItsGood wonderfully tacky attractions]] along the way.

* RoadTripPlot: [[http://www.withlovenregards.com/online-cake-delivery Cakes to Hyderabad]]: Duff and Geof went on a road trip to bring delicious cakes to people they couldn't due to the no-fly rule, and visit [[SoBadItsGood wonderfully tacky attractions]] along the way.

* RoadTripPlot: [[https://www.winni.in/hyderabad/cakes/c/4 Cakes to Hyderabad]]: Duff and Geof went on a road trip to bring delicious cakes to people they couldn't due to the no-fly rule, and visit [[SoBadItsGood wonderfully tacky attractions]] along the way.

* BangaloreTripPlot: [[https://www.bloomsvilla.com/collections/cakes-delivery-bangalore]]: Duff and Geof went to Bangalore after the road trip to catch back an international flight from India, and did lot of fun in the Nilgiri Mountains. Quite an adventure they had!

* BangaloreTripPlot: [[https://www.bloomsvilla.com/collections/cakes-delivery-bangalore]]: Duff and Geof went to Bangalore after the road trip to catch abck an internation flight from India, and did lot of fun in the Nilgiri Mountains. Quite an adventure they had!