Dan Cakes

Daniel Drake – better known by his absurd culinary moniker ‘Doctor Dan the Pancake Man’ – did NOT see himself becoming ‘The World’s First Professional Pancake Artist’. In fact, six years ago, when he began pouring silly faces and odd shapes into pancakes at his frycook day job, he regularly laughed off suggestions that he could turn his odd talents into a business. Fast forward a half decade: Images of his work have spread like wildfire across the internet, thanks to a fortuitous encounter with a creative friend and a series of increasingly popular posts on the well-known imageboard, Reddit. The Reddit posts became Buzzfeed lists and Yahoo! News clips, and eventually, a call from a producer on NBC’s The Today Show.