• An image of a pancake art portrait of social media personality Gary Vaynerchuck, rendered in grayscale and pictured resting on the dancakes griddle from a top-down viewing angle. The warm brown wood of the countertop and the multicolored batter pens adorn the edges of this simple image.
     Featured Pancake Art – Gary Vee – Motivational Superstar by Daniel Drake (10/01/2020) I’ve been following Gary Vaynerchuk for a few years now. If you aren’t familiar with him, he’s an entrepreneur/public speaker with a substantial social media presence with a raw authenticity about him that people either love or hate. I fall into the first category, and I often find myself sharing his posts with friends and […] Posted In: Featured Pancakes
  • A side-by-side image of two pieces of pancake art. On the left, a large, cartoonish Captain America design has been crafted using browned and burned pancake batter lines to create contrast. The design is resting on a diner platter atop a stainless steel countertop. On the right side of the image, is a beautiful, full-color portrait of Captain America as portrayed by the actor Chris Evans. This design rests on a black background and has multiple shades of blues, grays, browns and red building up a lovely, semi-realistic rendition of the subject matter.
     Featured Pancake Art – Captain America Glow-Up by Daniel Drake (09/23/2020) Hey everyone! This here was a bit of an out-of-the-ordinary piece for me; this Captain America pancake was made specifically to compare it against one I’d made years and years ago, back when I still worked at the diner. Back then I was only using drip cuts and heat toning and you can see the […] Posted In: Featured Pancakes
  • Dana smiling with Preserved Pancake Art of The Beast
     Featured Pancake Art – Beast – Last Chance To Get It! by Dana Baldus (09/15/2020) Dana here;  my heart aches knowing the auction for this pancake will be ending very soon, and that I’ll have to see this one go. This is likely my most complex and DEFINITELY my most time-consuming pancake to date, and I’ve grown very attached. I adore how it came out, the lighting, the expression, the […] Posted In: Featured Pancakes
  • Chadwick Boseman Tribute Pancake Art
     Featured Pancake Art – Chadwick Boseman – A Tribute by Daniel Drake (09/04/2020) Once upon a time 43 seemed so old. Now, it feels like it’s just around the corner. Chadwick Boseman’s passing feels like a gut punch on so many levels. He was far too young, far too brave, far too good to be taken from us so early. He embodied all of the things that we […] Posted In: Featured Pancakes
  • Pokemon Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur Preserved Pancake Art
     Featured Pancake Art – Pokemon Original Starters Pancake Art – FOR SALE! 🍃🔥💧 by Dana Baldus (08/17/2020) Hey all, remember our 48-hour non-stop stream a few weeks back where we made all 151 Original Pokémon? Well, if you can believe it, every single one of them has been freezedryed,  put in resin, framed, and turned into a permanent art piece! They will ALL be going up for auction, with another 9-12 Pokémon […] Posted In: Featured Pancakes
  • A portrait of the congressional candidate Cori Bush, in the medium of pancake art.
     Featured Pancake Art – Congressional Candidate Cori Bush by Daniel Drake (08/06/2020) Hey everyone! Dan here. Have you voted recently? August 4th saw a round of primaries and propositions voted on here in Dancakes’ hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, and all of us made our way out to do our civic duty. This was my best (second) attempt at drawing a pancake art portrait of a woman […] Posted In: Featured Pancakes
  • Beast with Rose Pancake Art on Griddle
     Featured Pancake Art – Beast (Prince Adam) from Beauty and the Beast by Dana Baldus (07/16/2020) Tale as old as time…   Hey all! Dana here, with another pancake I took way too seriously. I went really ambitious with this one, trying to create the ambiance of a dark room, the feeling of a soft pink light reflected on the Beast’s face, and transparency through the glass that covers the glowing […] Posted In: Featured Pancakes
  • Galaxy Kitten Pancake Art
     Featured Pancake Art – Galaxy Kitten by Dana Baldus (07/10/2020) Some close-ups the Galaxy Kitten! Dana here, I was stoked with this one for a multitude of reasons. The vibrancy of the background colors, the feeling of movement, the concept, the expression… but mostly, it’s just so incredibly rewarding to attempt complex, colored lighting effects and have them pay off decently. Examples in this piece […] Posted In: Featured Pancakes
  • Dan and Dana's attempts at the Sailor Moon redraw challenge! Dan's pancake illustration is mostly on-model with Sailor Moon, but he used a blue, green and red color scheme that makes the character seem alien and exotic. Dana's pancake art of sailor moon uses a looser, charming style with bright, popping colors and bold lines and curves.
     Featured Pancake Art – Sailor Moon Redraw | Dancakes Challenge by Daniel Drake (07/07/2020) Howdy y’all! Dan here, with some of that delicious CONTENT you love us so much for. A few weeks back Dana hit up our groupchat with some examples of artists doing the Sailor Moon Redraw – one of those social media artist prompts that asked people to put their own unique spin on a single […] Posted In: Featured Pancakes