Hamish Blake nails Sonny’s 8th birthday cake challenge!
He even keeps creating while at a charity ball with his wife!
Hamish Blake has once again shared his birthday cake-making antics with his 1.1 million followers on Instagam and we are here for it!
Starting his stories at 4.30pm, he talked through the “parameters” for Sonny’s 8th birthday cake explaining that his take was to recreate Avatar: The Last Airbender, which is son whispered to him “as is tradition”. Showing a pic of the character he said “This pose is tricky enough in itself…”
The dad-of-two described his ‘loose’ idea a four-sided cake with Avatar on the top, reminding fans that the character controls earth, water, fire and air revealing his plan to have earth “exploding” out of the front of the cake.
Water would come from one side, air from the other and he said that he hoped that some for of pyrotechnic for fire would distract from the air element, which could be, he said, a “midnight problem”.
“This is the brief for my Son’s 8th birthday cake tonight. I already feel the familiar twang of this being too much, and the law of averages states I’m due for a flame out, but nevertheless, here we are,” he captioned his post. “I will begin posting about 7ish on my stories, if you feel like dropping by to watch a man crumble under the pressure of making a cartoon figure out of icing…”
Perhaps the biggest problem? Time. Hamish and wife Zoe Foster Blake had a charity ball to attend to. Hamish didn’t let that stop him – he took the icing with him!
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Sonny whispers his request and his dad pulls out all the stops to make it happen.
The cake maker at work! Hamish took a ‘break’ from his creating to attend a charity ball with his wife. He shared snaps of the ball, and you can see the colouring icing on his fingers. Dedicated!
The finished cake! Zoe was keen praise her husband for his creation.
Scroll down to see some of Hamish Blake’s birthday cake creations…
“It’s a Pikachu,” Hamish said of Sonny’s 7th birthday request. “He’s coming out of a Pokeball (that’s a Pokémon thing, not a bowl of brown rice and salmon and cabbage). There is jelly in the Pokeball. There is smoke. It goes “pfffft” when it opens. Pikachu has his hand up for a high five.”
When Sonny asked for Aladdin’s Cave of Wonders, that’s what he got!
“The mouth glows. The eyes glow. Sonny has asked this faithfully be recreated.”
Tasked with creating a dinosaur cake, Hamish turned to his Lego Masters friends who created a frame for him to build upon.
“An outlandish request I should have turned down, but, my Italian heritage dictates that a father can never refuse a cake request on the day of his sons birthday.”
“Slime fairly happy with how the big moment played out,” the comedian joked about his six-layer cake that spewed green icing!
For daughter Rudy’s third birthday, Hamish was all set to make unicorn cake but when she whispered her request she wanted a Sheepy cake. And her wish was granted.
“I learnt a harsh lesson in client/agency dynamics as she last minute changed the brief,” he said.
Treating Rudy to a cake of her choosing for her fourth birthday took a turn when the requested unicorn started looking more like a donkey.
“There’s nothing I can do, it’s 3 o’clock. I just gotta get the wings on. It’s a uni-donkey, we’re doing a uni-donkey,” he said.
“This is the Mack truck cake my husband made (the night before, starting at 8:30pm, equipped with many beer and no idea) for our Disney Cars fanatic of a son,” said wife Zoe.
“But he did it. And it’s perfect. Especially since he’d a) never heard of fondant before, b) didn’t Goog a step-by-step for guidance, and c) didn’t throw a huge shitfit and then a rolling pin by 8:47pm like I would have.”
