The ‘Next Great Baker,’ after the cameras switched off
MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2013 LAST UPDATED: MONDAY DECEMBER 23, 2013, 7:48 AM
BY ELISA UNG
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
“I’ve turned into a miniature Buddy Valastro,” Marissa Lopez deadpans. In 2012, TLC viewers watched as “Cake Boss” Valastro anointed the long-haired Pompton Lakes pastry chef his “Next Great Baker,” handing her $100,000 and the chance to work for him.
Then the cameras turned off – and things really got interesting.
“The minute I won, I was like, I’m set. I’m going to open my own bakery,” said Lopez, 26. But she said Valastro told her: “Just wait a little. Pump the brakes. You might need a little bit more time to learn a little bit more. So stay with me, stay by my side, and you’ll learn the ropes.”
Though Lopez had previously been the pastry chef of Rocca in Glen Rock and a cake decorator at The Brownstone in Paterson, she took a job as a low-level employee at Valastro’s facility in Jersey City, toiling over small layer cakes and practically cowering in the Cake Boss’s presence.
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Yeah ok. You make cakes. Of course you should be rich and famous.