Carlo's Bakery Looks to Expand in the New Year

In a recent phone interview while filming his cooking show in Secaucus, Cake Boss Buddy Valastro said he plans on renovating in the new year.

"We're going to re-do Carlo's Bakery," Valastro said. And while Valastro could not give an exact date for the renovations, he speculated it would happen in 2012. "We want to make the store bigger."

Since Valastro acquired a space in Jersey City where a lot of the baking and cooking can be done, a large part of the first floor of the bakery on Washington and Newark Streets can be used as bakery space.

Currently the bakery takes up a third of the first floor, which will be expanded by two thirds, Valastro said.

In the new year, Valastro said that there will be a Carlo's Bakery app for smart phones, to make crumbcake and lobster roles, even easier.