Buddy Valastro is a proud — and protecting — father.

Whereas debuting the discharge of Buddy V’s Cake Slices at Chuck E. Cheese, the Cake Boss star and his household sat down to speak solely with PEOPLE. The superstar baker gushed about his oldest baby and solely daughter, Sofia Valastro, revealing how he feels about her boyfriend of simply shy of a yr and a half. 

“He’s a very good child, and he makes her glad,” Buddy says of Sofia’s boyfriend and fellow College of Delaware scholar, Anthony Machion. 

Buddy says that whereas Machion is dad-approved, he nonetheless needed to mess with him in the way in which solely a father can. “I informed him, ‘For those who do the fallacious factor, I’ve obtained a very massive trunk, and I’m from New Jersey — simply saying,’” he jokes. 

Whereas he’s nonetheless a protecting father, Buddy emphasizes that Sofia is able to dealing with her personal life, saying, “My daughter is not any pushover. I do know she’s a giant woman.” Lisa Valastro, Buddy’s spouse, chimed in, telling PEOPLE, “We don’t fear about her.” 

“I couldn’t be prouder of my daughter,” Buddy says of the faculty junior. “I don’t fear an excessive amount of about her. She’s a robust, impartial, fantastic younger girl.”

On Thursday, the daddy of 4 visited a Chuck E. Cheese in Union, New Jersey, to launch the enlargement of his cake-by-the-slice model, Buddy V’s Cake Slices, into the household leisure heart by handing out samples of his muffins to all the youngsters within the retailer. 

“My dream was to make my bakery a family title — it was me and my father’s dream. We did that with Cake Boss,” the Carlo’s Bakery proprietor tells PEOPLE. “Now the query is: How do I discover totally different avenues to let individuals style my cake?”

Buddy noticed Chuck E. Cheese as the right venue, particularly with cherished household reminiscences of his personal youngsters’ events. Along with Sofia, Valastro additionally has three sons, Buddy Jr., 18, Marco, 16, and Carlo, 12.

“I bear in mind when one of many boys, I feel it was Buddy [Jr.], when he was a child, we clearly had the bakery, and my husband made a three-tier Chuck E. Cheese cake for his birthday,” Lisa recollects. “It was like 30 youngsters and we needed to shut down half of Chuck E. Cheese.”

Beginning Monday, Aug. 14, Buddy V’s Cake Slices, which are available three flavors: Confetti, Vanilla Rainbow and Chocolate Fudge, might be accessible in all Chuck E. Cheese areas to provide different households the chance to make the identical dessert-based reminiscences because the Valastros.

Buddy V’s Cake Slices are additionally accessible by way of third-party supply apps like DoorDash, Grubhub and UberEats.