Since its debut, the series has received a polarized response from critics and audiences alike. The on-screen chemistry between the two lead characters has been praised, while others have condemned the show's reliance on sexualized humor and racial stereotypes. It was nominated for three 2012 Emmy Awards, winning for Art Direction. On March 25, 2016, the show was renewed for a sixth season, which premiered on October 10, 2016.
During Season 4, the girls start their Cupcake T-shirt Business which
soon goes in loss. Caroline has a brief affair with the Pastry School
Head Chef Nicholas, which eventually leads to Nicholas closing down the
school and moving back to France with his wife. They attempt to get
Deke's parents to invest in the pastry school, planning to run by
themselves but did not succeed. Max and Caroline ends up in an elite
class Pastry Shop called "The High" in order to make more money to
return the loan they took for their Cupcake T-shirt business. In the end
of Season 4, Oleg and Sophie got married, with the girls realizing they
have their own business to worry about and their own dream to work
towards, which leads to them quitting "The High" and coming back to
their business.
Kat Dennings as Max Black, one of the waitresses at the Williamsburg Diner. She is a poor working class girl who had a rough childhood in Hope, Rhode Island
and an equally rough adult life, driven by both genuine poverty and
being raised by a mother who was usually absent and dangerously
incompetent when she was around.
(It is implied that her mother was a drug addict.)
Han initially allowed her to sell homemade cupcakes in the diner, which
led to her going forward with Caroline's idea to go into the cupcake
business. The brunette Max is street-smart, tends to deliver insults
with a smile, and often pokes fun at her own promiscuity, her large
breasts, and indulgence in marijuana. She always wears knee-high brown
leather boots while waitressing.
- Beth Behrs as Caroline Wesbox Channing, a new waitress at the Williamsburg Diner. She is a formerly rich high society girl (in the style of Paris Hilton,) and University of Pennsylvania Wharton graduate who lost all of her money when her father was arrested and thrown in jail for a Ponzi scheme. She is forced to start over and becomes Max's co-worker, roommate and eventual best friend. She comes up with the idea of starting a cupcake business with Max. Despite being spoiled since birth and then losing her money, Caroline is kind and optimistic, though high-maintenance at times. The blonde Caroline always wears large pearl necklaces with her waitress uniform as well as high-heeled shoes.
- Garrett Morris as Earl, the cashier who has worked at the Williamsburg Diner since 1962, or 1989, and an elderly former jazz musician with a love of marijuana and gambling. Max is very close to him, and frequently says that she wishes he was her father.
- Jonathan Kite as Vanko Oleg Golishevsky, a Ukrainian cook at the Williamsburg Diner. He sexually harasses Max and Caroline constantly with inappropriate jokes, innuendo and propositions for sex, but his behavior is benign and easily ignored (or mocked, by Max). He later develops an attraction to Sophie, and has a sex-only relationship with her. At the end of season two, Oleg cheated on Sophie, leading her to angrily break up with him off-screen before the third season premiere. In season four, the two reconcile and get engaged and then married; it is revealed he needs to get married because his green card will expire.
- Matthew Moy as Han Lee, the owner of the Williamsburg Diner. He is constantly a target for jokes (mainly from Max) involving his height, his effeminate mannerisms in spite of his claims of being heterosexual, and his lack of knowledge of American culture. He is originally from South Korea and he references his parents and his home country often.
Recurring
- Ryan Hansen as Andy a candy store owner whose business was across from the cupcake store, and Caroline's love interest in season 2. Andy returns to Williamsburg and invites Caroline and Max to his wedding. He is married to Romy, a hat designer.
- Chestnut is Caroline's horse who lives in the garden of Max's apartment. He is portrayed by a horse named Rocky.
- Brooke Lyons as Peach Landis a high society mother who acts like the most clueless version of that. She is the woman whose babies, Brad and Angelina (a reference to real-life actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie), Max babysits for. She fired Max from that job to appease an awful friend of hers after a cupcake-catering mishap, and after she begged Max to return full-time, Max decided that she would only return in a part-time capacity. She hasn't been seen or heard from since, and the show has made it clear Max no longer has any association with her.
- Nick Zano as Johnny Max's on-again-off-again love interest. He told Max he broke up with Cashandra and was getting married to another woman he just met a week ago in the season 1 finale. He was not seen again until the episode "And the Big Opening" of season 2, in which he and Max had sex. He and Max both agreed that they only wanted each other when they were taken by another person. He left at the end of that episode promising her he would see her again someday.
- Federico Dordei as Luis a flamboyant man who becomes the new day waiter in the third season episode "And the Group Head". He is attracted to Oleg.
- Gilles Marini as Nicolas a French "master baker" who owns and teaches at the Manhattan School of Pastry; he was Caroline's love interest, until she realized he is married in "And the French Kiss'. He and his wife have an "open relationship" and his wife even gives Caroline permission to sleep with Nicolas, but Caroline refuses because she does not want to sleep with a married man. He later moves back to France to be with his wife, and thus the Manhattan School of Pastry closes.
- Mary Lynn Rajskub as Bebe a neurotic pastry chef who works at the front desk of the Manhattan School of Pastry . She later moves to Canada, claiming that "they" have found her.
- Eric André as Deacon "Deke" Bromberg a sarcastic half-black/half-Jewish student at the Pastry School who quickly becomes Max's friend, lover and later ex-boyfriend. He is the second person Max says "I love you" to (the first being Caroline). It is later revealed that despite living in a renovated dumpster, he is rich, his parents owning a large elevator company. In "And the Wedding Cake Cake Cake", Max reveals that she and Deke are no longer together.
- Patrick Cox as John a large homosexual bald man who shared a table in the pastry school classroom with Max, who nicknames him "Big Mary".They now work together at The High.
- Sandra Bernhard as Joedth (pronounced "Jo") the lesbian owner of The High, a boutique restaurant where Max and Caroline start working.
- Austin Falk as Nashit "Nash"a handsome new waiter at The High, later hired by Han to be a dishwasher at the diner. He returns home to Ireland when his mother shows up to get him, also revealing that Nash is not yet 18.
- Ed Quinn as Randy a lawyer who becomes Max's lover while the girls are in Hollywood to discuss the movie adaptation of Caroline's life story. He later breaks up their relationship before she leaves town, saying that he likes her too much and knowing how long-distance relationships usually end. But he then follows her to New York and they briefly continue the relationship.
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