Food Network's Duff Goldman Faces Cake Challenge of Super Bowl Proportions in Season Finale of Hit Series 'Ace Of Cakes'

NEW YORK, April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- In the season finale of the Food Network's highest rated primetime series, "Ace of Cakes," April 26th at 10pm ET/PT, cake master Duff Goldman will face his biggest challenge yet. The NFL commissions Duff to put his confectionary creativity into play in the form of a nearly six foot tall, one-of-a-kind, Super Bowl cake. The pastry creation, which will be served up to VIP attendees including former Atlanta Falcon Jamal Anderson and Cleveland Browns Linebacker Willie McGinest at the Super Bowl XLI eve gala, will be modeled after a football field complete with team logos and helmets, sideline benches, players and coaches and a three dimensional replica of the Lombardi trophy. Duff enlists the help of Charm City Cake pros, Geoff, Katherine, Mary Smith and Anna, to hike down to Miami where the sheer enormity of the cake, bad weather and time restraints, ensure the ordeal will be the bakery's most challenging order ever.

Every week at Charm City Cakes in Baltimore, it's a new deadline and new situation. Ace of Cakes shadows Goldman and his eclectic staff of culinary experts, artists and architects as they bake, construct and frost the most elaborate and unconventional cake creations imaginable - oftentimes with the use of blowtorches, drills and saws. From a Chinese take-out cake filled with lo mein, to a replica of a 1930's Harlem speakeasy, no cake tiers are too high and no pastry design is too bizarre for Duff, the cake pro and rock musician who dishes up sugar and spice in a way you have to see to believe.

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