Cake - Season 1 (2006)

Amy is touched by an article on the Internet about a tornado that has hit a town in the South and destroyed its playground. With her financial resources - she has saved her allowance for the last five years - and social awareness, Amy inspires her friends and that inspiration leads to this week's Cake TV craft: Cake's Cuddly Cash Keeper. A great way to give new life and purpose to those old, beloved plush toys, this craft is a perfect way to save money as well as memories.

Cake, Amy and Benjamin discover they all have been thinking of the same thing when Miracle comes over straight from soccer practice without stopping for a shower. Quite frankly, their dear friend, well, smells. All attempts at hinting fail, but a soap-themed CAKE TV show offers the perfect way for Miracle to finally get the message - and a common-scents solution for her little "problem."

After hearing how the Slumber Party Girls achieved their singing success by staying focused on their goals, Cake and her friends are inspired to focus on goals of their own. Whether it's entering a poetry contest, or setting priorities for school and sports, this week's Cake TV craft, Cake's Goal Posts, offers a fun and visually inspiring way for viewers to explore short and long term goals.

Amy feels that because she's the youngest of the friends, she's always being told what to do - and, to make matters worse, her mom won't let Amy get her ears pierced, because she's too young! Amy's solution is to become "Miss Carson", complete with business suit, full make-up and all the affectations that she thinks being a grown-up requires.

A small mistake leads to a big misunderstanding between Benjamin and Miracle and leaves the two best friends refusing to speak to one another. By using lots of great pictures of Miracle and Benjamin in the Cake TV craft-of-the-week, the Say-Cheese-Cake Pillow Picture Frame, Cake and Amy help their two friends to see how important their friendship is.

Cake is concerned about her Grandma Crystal who is coming home from the hospital after having hip surgery and Miracle is concerned about Cake - because Cake is so preoccupied that she seems to have lost her creative spark.

Even though he is first chair in the school's concert band, Benjamin loses his enthusiasm for trumpet playing when the new Swedish transfer student, Inga, mentions that "the trumpet players are not so hot, ja?"

Miracle's fashion sense is hanging by a thread when the principal decrees that her new designer jeans ("stylishly" ripped, torn and filled with holes) don't meet the school's dress code. Miracle spent all of her birthday money on the jeans and doesn't know what to do (although, when one pant leg suddenly falls off altogether, she has to admit that perhaps the principal has a point!

While Cake and Miracle look through last year's yearbook, Cake is concerned about Miracle's umpteenth chocolate chip cookie. It's unhealthy and she's talking a mile a minute.

Amy hates being a hand-me down heiress but Cake sees that Amy's second-hand woes as a blessing in disguise and an opportunity to get creative.