Duff Goldman

Duff Goldman has just baked a cake of Baltimore's Washington Monument in Mount Vernon. And it looks just like the city's most famous landmark — right up to the statue of the nation's first president that stands atop its tower and down to the fine black piping that mimics the wrought-iron fence at its base. Only with Goldman, it's never enough, is it? Just two hours before he's supposed to deliver the cake and emcee the annual holiday monument-lighting ceremony alongside Gov. Martin O'Malley, the rock 'n' roll chef decides that what the cake really needs are fireworks inside its tower — real fireworks that explode and keep on exploding out of the cake for several minutes.

Now you can bake like Duff Goldman and the gang at Charm City Cakes. A new line of cake decorating products has just been released by Gartner Studios, a Minneapolis-based stationery company. Duff Essentials include cake mixes, decorating kits, pans and tools. Decorate With Duff includes sprinkles, decorating tools and cake "tattoos" and "graffiti. " And Duff Fondant includes everything you need to make your own extravaganzas. You can see the new Duff products here and here on the Charm City Cakes website.

Now you can bake like Duff Goldman and the gang at Charm City Cakes. A new line of cake decorating products has just been released by Gartner Studios, a Minneapolis-based stationery company. Duff Essentials include cake mixes, decorating kits, pans and tools. Decorate With Duff includes sprinkles, decorating tools and cake "tattoos" and "graffiti. " And Duff Fondant includes everything you need to make your own extravaganzas. You can see the new Duff products here and here on the Charm City Cakes website.

We're not going to tell anyone how to run their households, but if anyone ever has Duff Goldman over, here's a hint on what not to pour: Sunny-D. Baltimore's Ace of Cakes really, really, really seems to hate the orange-flavored drink. Like really. It started seemingly out of nowhere on Twitter. Duff posed a question that was absolutely more of a statement: What is Sunny-D? He didn't mean what is it. That he knew. He meant, what the heck is in it? Whath followed was a series of Tweets, waxing disgusted (and rather creative)

We're not going to tell anyone how to run their households, but if anyone ever has Duff Goldman over, here's a hint on what not to pour: Sunny-D. Baltimore's Ace of Cakes really, really, really seems to hate the orange-flavored drink. Like really. It started seemingly out of nowhere on Twitter. Duff posed a question that was absolutely more of a statement: What is Sunny-D? He didn't mean what is it. That he knew. He meant, what the heck is in it? Whath followed was a series of Tweets, waxing disgusted (and rather creative)

The natural accompaniment to cake is, of course, ice cream — which may be why Duff Goldman is making it his next business venture. The "extreme baker" who became a national fixture with his "Ace of Cakes" television show on the Food Network has sealed a deal with Blue Bunny for his own ice cream line. The cake-inspired flavors are set to hit freezer cases this month and will be sold in the Baltimore area at stores including SuperFresh, ShopRite, Food Lion and Walmart. The ice cream line is the latest venture by Goldman.

Duff Goldman's new series "Sugar High" will premiere on Monday, Aug. 8. at 10:30 p.m. on the Food Network. Duff's " Sugar High " will take him on "a cross-country trek to capture the sweet secrets and tasty techniques that keep the cookies from crumbling in the top dessert destinations around the country. In the six-episode premiere season Duff visits a bevy of sweet spots from diners and snow cone machines to food carts and boutique bakeries, getting a full view of what it takes to sweeten up any soiree.

Duff "Ace of Cakes"Goldman joins Guy Fieri on Monday's "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" episode featuring Baltimore's Joe Squared restaurants.  Here's the listing from the Food Network website : "This trip, Guy's cruisin' down the path less traveled. In Dallas, Texas, Guy turns tex-mex into mex-tex, with savory soups. In Baltimore, Maryland, local rock star baker Duff Goldman stops by to seek out the secrets of the square pizza. And in Santa Barbara, California, a restaurant turnin' turkey into fritters and a business into a family affair.

Pam Shriver put on a charity ball last week at the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel, and just as the live-auction portion of the evening was winding down, Martina Navratilova popped up and offered to donate tennis lessons to the highest bidder. Her surprise gesture brought in an extra $15,000 for cystic fibrosis research. Sounds like a sweet ending to the evening. And it would have been, if celebrity baker Duff Goldman hadn't been cued at that very moment to make a grand, music-filled entrance on the stage to present Shriver with a cake.

The nominees for the 2011 James Beard Foundation Awards were announced today! Winners will be announced in May. Baltimore’s own, Duff Goldman, received two nominations. Here’s a short list of nominees of interest. For the full list, visit jamesbeard.org. James Beard Foundation Broadcast Media Awards TV Food Personality/Host Alton Brown Show: Good Eats Bobby Flay Show: Brunch @ Bobby’s Duff Goldman Show: Ace of Cakes Television Program, On Location Ace of Cakes Host: Duff Goldman Avec Eric Host: Eric Ripert Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern Host: Andrew Zimmern James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards Individual Food Blog Politics of the Plate Politicsoftheplate.com Barry Estabrook Poor Man’s Feast Poormansfeast.com Elissa Altman Red Cook Redcook.net Kian Lam Kho Food Section of a General Interest Publication GQ The Editors of GQ San Francisco Chronicle Jon Bonné and Miriam Morgan The Washington Post Joe Yonan James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef Awards Best New Restaurant ABC Kitchen NYC Chef/Owner: Jean-Georges Vongerichten Owner: Phil Suarez Benu San Francisco Chef/Owner: Corey Lee Girl & the Goat Chicago Chef/Owner: Stephanie Izard Owners: Kevin Boehm, Rob Katz, and Daniel...

Duff "Ace of Cakes"Goldman joins Guy Fieri on Monday's "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" episode featuring Baltimore's Joe Squared restaurants.  Here's the listing from the Food Network website : "This trip, Guy's cruisin' down the path less traveled. In Dallas, Texas, Guy turns tex-mex into mex-tex, with savory soups. In Baltimore, Maryland, local rock star baker Duff Goldman stops by to seek out the secrets of the square pizza. And in Santa Barbara, California, a restaurant turnin' turkey into fritters and a business into a family affair.

Weekly linking makes no sense! It has to be done daily. There is so much good stuff out there. So, look for daily linkage beginning on Monday. In no particular order, except for the Duff item: Duff Goldman was the surprise entertainment at Baltimore Magazine's Best of Baltimore party, held Thursday night at the Hippodrome. There are photos on Suzanne Loudermilk's In Good Taste blog. Olive Garden's annual $8.95 Never Ending Pasta Bowl deal began on Monday and continues through Oct. 9. There are 42 combinations (seven pastas, six sauces)

Jill Smokler just might be Baltimore's biggest unknown celebrity. Few recognize her tightly coiled curls, her peanut-butter-eating children, her tired dog. But online, thousands upon thousands of mothers grasp onto her every word. And on Twitter, nearly 155,000 people follow her, more, by far, than Baltimore's mayor, Maryland's governor, chef Duff Goldman and the Ravens' Ray Lewis - together. In the virtual world she's a well-known and influential voice. Yet in the real one, you'd walk right past her in Whole Foods without realizing.

Duff Goldman had a "blast" making his new Food Network series — "I got to check out the country. They let me off the leash. " His new project is "Sugar High," a six-episode series debuting Aug. 8. The show sends Goldman and his motorcycle on a "cross-country trek to capture sweet secrets and tasty techniques … in the top dessert destinations around the country. " Sweets along the way include chilled bread pudding on the Venice Boardwalk in Los Angeles, tableside s'mores in Dallas, apple strudel in Chicago, lemon ginger mousse in Boston and traditional rice pudding in Philadelphia and Sno Ballz from the first-ever, shaved-ice machine in New Orleans.

Duff Goldman's new series "Sugar High" will premiere on Monday, Aug. 8. at 10:30 p.m. on the Food Network. Duff's " Sugar High " will take him on "a cross-country trek to capture the sweet secrets and tasty techniques that keep the cookies from crumbling in the top dessert destinations around the country. In the six-episode premiere season Duff visits a bevy of sweet spots from diners and snow cone machines to food carts and boutique bakeries, getting a full view of what it takes to sweeten up any soiree.

The nominees for the 2011 James Beard Foundation Awards were announced today! Winners will be announced in May. Baltimore’s own, Duff Goldman, received two nominations. Here’s a short list of nominees of interest. For the full list, visit jamesbeard.org. James Beard Foundation Broadcast Media Awards TV Food Personality/Host Alton Brown Show: Good Eats Bobby Flay Show: Brunch @ Bobby’s Duff Goldman Show: Ace of Cakes Television Program, On Location Ace of Cakes Host: Duff Goldman Avec Eric Host: Eric Ripert Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern Host: Andrew Zimmern James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards Individual Food Blog Politics of the Plate Politicsoftheplate.com Barry Estabrook Poor Man’s Feast Poormansfeast.com Elissa Altman Red Cook Redcook.net Kian Lam Kho Food Section of a General Interest Publication GQ The Editors of GQ San Francisco Chronicle Jon Bonné and Miriam Morgan The Washington Post Joe Yonan James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef Awards Best New Restaurant ABC Kitchen NYC Chef/Owner: Jean-Georges Vongerichten Owner: Phil Suarez Benu San Francisco Chef/Owner: Corey Lee Girl & the Goat Chicago Chef/Owner: Stephanie Izard Owners: Kevin Boehm, Rob Katz, and Daniel...

Duff Goldman, the rock 'n' roll chef of Charm City Cakes , wants to set the record straight about the announcement last week that "Ace of Cakes" will be ending its long run on the Food Network early next year. "People say to me, like, 'Oh, man, I hear you got canceled. I feel sorry for you.' And I'm, like, 'No, not really. I'm actually going to have time to make a lot more money,'" he says laughing. "Don't anybody feel sorry for me. " The 35-year-old rock musician, pastry chef and entrepreneur who rose to reality-TV fame almost overnight when "Ace of Cakes" debuted 41/2 years ago, says he has three new TV shows in development, and one of them involves him moving to Los Angeles in February to open a West Coast version of Charm City Cakes in June.

It probably won't surprise Duff Goldman's many fans that a power drill will make an appearance next weekend when the master cake baker takes on Michael Symon in "Iron Chef America." After all, blow torches, grinders and other tools that go vroom are routinely used in Goldman's shop, Charm City Cakes, to build the structures of elaborate pastries that have included an anatomically correct model of an ear and a smoking volcano. But, when the new episode of "Iron Chef" airs Saturday and Sunday, viewers will see Goldman use the drill in a manner that blazes a new path, even for him. And that's as specific as he's going to be for now. "Let's just say that it was a new technique that I'd never tried before, and that the drill did exactly what I wanted it to do," Goldman says over the phone from Chicago, where he's touring with his indie rock band, soihadto (so I had to)

The natural accompaniment to cake is, of course, ice cream — which may be why Duff Goldman is making it his next business venture. The "extreme baker" who became a national fixture with his "Ace of Cakes" television show on the Food Network has sealed a deal with Blue Bunny for his own ice cream line. The cake-inspired flavors are set to hit freezer cases this month and will be sold in the Baltimore area at stores including SuperFresh, ShopRite, Food Lion and Walmart. The ice cream line is the latest venture by Goldman.