You Have Heard Of Pancakes,

but how about Dancakes?

struggling musician and artist Dan Drake, aka ‘Dancakes’, while trying to get his musical career off the ground, got a job as a fry cook at the Courtesy Diner, in his home city of St. Louis, he was placed on the slow shifts, which resulted in few tips but a lot of time on his hands, it was on one of these shifts that he got his feet wet in the world of pancake art,

 the young fry cook spent the next few months after that practicing pancake art, and eventually developed somewhat of a following at Courtesy Diner, one night, he made a mushroom-shaped pancaked inspired by the Super Mario video game for a friend, and the guy was so impressed that he took a photo and posted it online. Seven months later, his mushroom pancake was on the front page of social news sharing site, Reddit, and several online media giants, like Buzzfeed, posted it as well. Next thing he knew, Dan was being flown to New York to make pancake portraits of Dan Roker and Matt Lauer, live on The Today Show, 

 His career quickly went on the up after that, and he was able to leave the Courtesy Diner to make bespoke pancakes for private parties and on commission. That was five years ago, and a lot has happened since then. Dan started his own pancake art company, Dancakes, and hired several other talented pancake artists to keep up with demand,

“To have something like this, that I didn’t actively choose, that just kind of like randomly happened to me, and to have this be my path to success, I don’t know, I think there’s something kind of profound about it,” the young artist told St. Louis Public Radio, 

apart from running his own pancake art company, Dancakes is also actively working on taking his career to the next level. He recently launched a kit that allows people to make their own artistic pancakes at home, and is working with a Chicago-based scientist to create a special pancake batter that would allow for his artworks to be preserved for a long time,

to celebrate IHOP’s National Pancake Day, on March 12, Marvel asked Dancakes to make some of his signature pancakes inspired by the X-Men, have a look at the amazing results in the video below,

for more of Dancakes amazing pancake art, have a look at his Instagram and Facebook pages, and for more he has a YouTube channel to see how the magic happens, pancake art who would have thought it?