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Buddy Valastro – Baking with the Cake Boss

He’s Back and with a new book! Baking With the Cake Boss will be Buddy’s 2nd book. I got to meet him yesterday at a book signing that was held at Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville, IL. From what I was told there were over 300 books sold for the event and Buddy was amazing! He made sure to make every person that came to see him felt special.

After getting my own book signed and a photo with Buddy we went down stairs to get to know him a little better with this backroom interview! It was a blast to be able to talk with him and see once again what an amazing person he is and how much he cares about his family.

Here are some of my questions that were answered in the interview!

1. Is this your first time being out on tour and being able to connect with fans?

2.Did you bring any of your crew with you or is this a solo show?

3. What has been your favorite tour stop so far?

4. Did you ever in your wildest dreams think it would get so big?

5. How has that affected your family and personal life?

6. How many hours a weeks do you end up working?

7. Now is that more hours when your out on tour?

8. Pizza or Hot Dogs?

9. What is the worst delivery – mishap that you have had with a cake and how did you resolve it?

10. What is in a bag of tricks that you bring with on a delivery?

11. What is the most extreme cake you have ever made?

12. What is one of your favorite things to do? Designing? Decorating?

13. What is the earliest memory you have of you and your day in the bakery?

14. Is that traditions that you continue with your kids?

Check out the interview here!

http://youtu.be/VWkqdsEldtk

After the book signing we were all ready for the show later that night at The Rosemont Theater A night with the cake boss!

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The Rosie Show

The Rosie Show was a BLAST! I got to attend the show for the first time last night. The show had Sara Remirez and Common as the 2 main guests. Also with a huge side of comedy. We started the adventure waiting in line around 4. After getting checked in we were sent upstairs and greeted with a special surprise. Sprinkles Cupcake! They are some of the best cupcakes that you can find anywhere! I had a Chocolate one with Vanilla icing and Chocolate sprinkles. As we were waiting the excitement was in the air everyone was excited to see what Rosie was going to do tonight. There were a lot of fans of Oprah that never got to see the show and also people who were really there to see Rosie. As a resident of Chicago I was able to attend a few of the Oprah show taping and this was nothing like those. It was BETTER. Don’t get me wrong I love Oprah but there was an excitement in the air that you just can’t describe with words. After be called down the the Studio to get our seats we noticed something blue under our seats with a ribbon tied around it …. Yes living up to the hype we all had a Snuggie under our seats that we had to put on for the opening scene of the show. All in all it was a fun time! The bonus at the end was as we were leaving we got another Cupcake from Sprinkles to take home!

Thanks Rosie and your team for such a great day!

-Peace, Love and Tweeting -Tor

Autobahn Country Club Joliet, IL

As I sit here trying to write this blog I am trying to think of words that can describe my day yesterday … Amazing, Exciting, Wonderful, Thrilling, FAST – This list can go on and on. I was at the Autobahn Country Club in Joliet, IL. For those of you who don’t know Joliet has the Chicagoland Speedway where they hold the Nascar and Indy cup races. Just across the street is any one who loves speeds dream place to go. I know a few of the members and got invited to Lady’s Day at the track! My day started out by getting to take a few “Hot Laps” with Tom Bagley who is a former Indy car driver and also Director of Racing Instruction & Track Safety at the Autobahn Country Club.

Then we were taken to the club house for some afternoon snacks and to get some instruction on what we would be doing for the rest of the day.

I got to learn the proper techniques for braking for a turn and also got to do an auto cross course. Now you might be wondering by now what on earth was I driving to make this so much fun … That would be the 2012 Mercedes C 63 and the Audi TT. Amazing cars by the way! They are part of the Performance Fleet that includes cars from all the top manufactures. After we were able to master the Auto-Cross course we then were off to the Go Karts. (I was the 2nd fastest time with 34.76 seconds.) Then it was time for the moment we have all be waiting for … to drive our cars on the actual race track! With the fleet of cars that were there we all got to pick a car that we wanted to drive. I chose the Mercedes E63.

I didn’t think that these cars could get any better but they did! That was the nicest car that I have ever driven and it was not because it was on a race track!

I would highly recommend this as something you take a chance at! Here is the web site so you can check them out for yourself! www.autobahncc.com