Welcome to Charly's Bakery in Cape Town - it is without question, South Africa's most "mucking afazing" bakery. Meet the team behind the endlessly decadent, delightful cakes. The Charly's Cake Angels are exhilarated, they've got their own reality show happening at the bakery, and their task for the episode is to come up with a dazzling opening sequence for their show. Join Jacqui, Alex, Dani, Francis and Roche as they rise to the challenge of designing - and baking - the opening sequence, so that they can get their cake show on the cutting board!
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It's the largest order the Charly's
Cake Angels have been tasked with: a gargantuan five tiered cake, weighing over
150 kilograms. It's also the busiest time of the year for them, and Alex has
been put in charge of the monstrous order. Dani and Roche are running the shop, and Francis - as usual
- is overwhelmed with shape cake and wedding orders. With stress-levels in the
bakery at an all time high, will Alex be able to get the gigantic cake to the
party on time? And how exactly is
she planning to transport this monstrously heavy five-tiered cake?
A "frog-osaurus" dinosaur,
a Cinderella carriage, a topsy-turvy wedding cake, a snake, and a skull - yet
another crazy, chaotic week for the Charly's Cake Angels! Everyone loves a shaped cake, and
Francis from Charly's Bakery has been carving and crafting shaped cakes for
years. Join Alex as she learns the
art of carving and covering cakes from Francis. As always, a smattering of drama: a bride trashes the wrong
cake and Zelda arrives early to collect her skull cake... Will the cake angels
be able to repair the collapsed cake - and ice the maggots and gore onto
Zelda's skull cake in time?
The Charly’s Cake Angels find
themselves under the media spotlight as a popular local magazine programme
brings Vanessa Haywood, star of District 9, into the bakery for their Valentine’s
Day episode. Vanessa and Dani ice
love letters onto generous heart-shaped cookies. Meanwhile, Africa’s premier children’s hospital, the Red
Cross Children’s Hospital is celebrating Valentines day, and have asked the
Charly’s Angels for a donation cake for their cardio ward – Alex decides to
make a human heart cake as a twist on the cardiac heart theme!
It’s arguably Africa’s most
beautiful city, and it’s home to Charly’s Bakery – welcome to Cape Town, the
bohemian city the Charly’s Cake Angels are smitten with. The Charly’s team is
overjoyed, they’ve been honoured by the city, and have been invited to create a
cake to celebrate Cape Town for South Africa’s top creative event, The Design
Indaba. Join the angels as they
trawl the city for visual references and recreate their soul city in icing and
art! It’s a mammoth undertaking,
and they have to close part of the bakery to accommodate this task. To make matters worse, the city is
sizzling - a terrible heat wave grips the bakery. Heat, stress and late nights
are some of the ingredients which make it into the Cake Town cake.
It’s wedding season at the bakery,
and the Charly’s Cake Angels, as usual, vow to wow with their wonderful wedding
cakes. Jacqui has a soft spot for
wedding couples and their cakes, with each carefully crafted cake being a
labour of love. From cigars to a
crowning gazebo, the Charly’s wedding cakes come in all shapes and sizes, but
getting these awesome edible creations to the weddings is a nail-biting
challenge: as usual, drama abounds as Dani and Roche take a wrong turn to a
country wedding and find themselves on a rough road with a super-fragile cake!
When the Charly’s Cake Angels discover
that a baby rhino has been born at Aquila Safari Lodge, they decide to make a
safari cake to celebrate its birth.
Given the conservation crisis in South Africa around rhino poaching, the
birth of a baby rhino is a cause for much celebration. The Angels head out on safari, where
after viewing the Big 5, their adventurous safari cake begins to take shape!
Being
surrounded by cakes all day everyday has its drawbacks: the last thing you want
on your birthday is… a cake.
Simply because the Charly’s Cake Angels can’t bear the thought of
celebrating birthdays with cakes, doesn’t mean that they don’t want to share
their birthday love. Each year
they each bake a birthday cake for their favourite charities, in this episode,
we follow Jacqui, Dani, Roche and Alex as they each choose a charity close to
their hearts and deliver cakes, crammed with love, to their chosen ones.
Much of the key film crew which have been
filming at Charly’s Bakery for the last few months are being yanked away to icy
climes – they’re off to film adventurers Riaan Manser and Dan Skinskad
circumnavigating Iceland in a kayak.
What makes this adventure even more poignant is that Dan suffers from a
mild form of cerebral palsy and is taking on this challenge as a way of communicating
to the world that cerebral palsy sufferers can reach for their dreams. The Charly’s Cake Angels, touched by
Dan’s story and distressed at losing their beloved crew members, decide to
create an ambitious volcanic Iceland cake to send Riaan, Dan and their
much-loved crew off on their perilous voyage. As the Iceland cake explodes to life, tempers flare at the
bakery. Will Roche and Dani be able to bring Alex and Jacqui’s vision to
life? Will the angels be able to
get their backdrop of the Northern Lights to sparkle – and, will their plan of making
a dry ice erupting volcano actually work?
It’s been a busy year for the bakery and
Angels decide to honour their hard-working staff with a team-building day
out. In the week before the
fun-day, it’s the usual Charly’s chaos at the bakery, with weddings, birthdays
and decadent wicked chocolate drama. The plan for the fun-day is top secret,
and to keep the staff guessing, Jacqui, Alex, Dani, Francis and Roche tempt
everyone with hints of what to expect. At long last, the big day arrives – the
staff are split into three treasure-hunting teams. It’s the Amazing-cookie-monster-race, which culminates with
drums beating at a sunset beach scene.
When the fashion editor of Cosmopolitan
South Africa invites Charly’s to create a cake to celebrate the launch of a
dynamic denim fashion week, the Cake Angels rise to the challenge – there’s no
zipping up the inspiration at Charly’s when the Angels let their icing bags
loose onto the fashion world. Can
food and fashion be friends – only if the Charly’s Cake Angels can ensure that
all their calories get sent to other bakeries!
Yet another crazy week in the life of Charly’s Bakery, as Jacqui, Alex, Dani, Roche, Francis and Jenny delight customers with their decadent, enchanting cakes. From disco balls to spiders, pyramids to off-the-wall wedding cakes, it’s chaos - as usual - at the bakery!
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It’s holiday time, and the Angels are off
to Zanzibar – Africa’s exotic spice isle.
They’re taking a cake – and the viewers – with them on their
holiday. Exhaustion sets in as,
after a long year, the Angels clean and close up the bakery and put the
finishing touches on their impressive Zanzibar cake. Travelling by air with a big cake poses challenges for the
exhausted Angels, as does the realisation that their holiday isn’t quite cake
free. Will all be well when the
Angels finally find their feet on the shores of the spice island?