A PROFESSIONAL pancake artist is turning your favorite Pixar characters into edible works of art. Daniel Drake, 24, who is more commonly known as Doctor Dan the Pancake Man, creates edible masterpieces using colored batter.

    In the past, he’s created tasty versions of The Beatles, Steve Jobs and superheroes galore. But now he’s turned his attention to the wonderful world of animation.

    From Buzz and Woody of “Toy Story” to the characters from Pixar’s latest film, “Inside Out,” we can’t get enough of the creations on his Instagram feed, Dr Dancake.

    Drake said that he’s now a full-time pancake artist. But it hasn’t always been that way.

    After leaving school, he worked as a short-order cook at a small diner. But he soon realized that the job didn’t pay well enough to allow him to live a “happy” life.

    “So I started trying to come up with clever ways to impress my customers and earn more in tips,” he says. “That’s when I started putting smiley faces on top of pancakes.

    “The first time I served one was to a very grumpy-looking guy whose mood changed the moment he saw it, and he ended up leaving me a US$15 tip for a US$3 meal. I decided that I’d make special pancakes for every customer that ordered them after that.”

    After doing that for roughly five years, Drake had figured out some tricks — with the help of his co-worker, Tracy — that allowed him to actually draw designs into the batter.

    After a television appearance, the special requests started flooding in and from that moment he became the world’s first professional pancake artist.

    (SD-Agencies)