Alien movies

Star Trek

Spock posed for a picture with my son just before boldly going where no man has gone before.

Birds at our feeder

Snowflakes

Just inverted the colors on this one:

Nearby trees

Animal tracks

Local wildflowers

Mushrooms

Happy Halloween!

Tessellating heptagons

Bill Amend’s FoxTrot cartoon prompted this morning’s pancakes.

Gryphon’s pancakes

My 4-year-old took over for me this time.

Hollywood monsters

When asked what kind of pancakes he wanted, Gryphon answered, “Scary ones.” 
This is what came to mind.  He claimed he wasn’t scared.

My Vote: Delicious

Some election pancakes, requested by these guys.

Happy birthday, Roald Dahl!

Pancakes of the world

Also made this for an interview:

Monsters love blackberries

Good Day Sacramento

Here’s the pancake I made the other day for this interview.

Seashells

Winnie-the-Pooh

Monsters love strawberries

4th of July

Polygon constructions

These constructions were inspired by a trip to my friend Leah’s geometry class last weekend.

Fish

Some of the cool fish we saw at the Aquarium of the Pacific the other day.

Birds

This week I was joined by fellow pancake artist Jonah Treviño, who must take most of the credit for these.

Vegetables

First Portrait

Ugly Pancake Contest Winners

My 4-year old son, Gryphon, selected the UPC Best of Show, though many pancakes boasted top prize in their respective categories. 

Best of Show – Mike Daughters
”Mine don’t taste as good either.”


Weirdest – Kaibeezy Tentroy
”6-year-old said ’alien pancakes!’ and consumed the invaders.”


Rorschach Award – Noel Chow
”Making an ugly pancake was harder than I thought! it was not a matter of random splatter though it had to look like it.”

Best Tribute – Matthew Petty
“the worst was a pancake for my ex-Deadhead wife based on the cover of the Grateful Dead LP 'Steal Your Face'”


Least Pancake-Like – Julia Strand
”The pancake is constructed completely of pancake batter, food coloring, fruit, and nuts.  We ate it up and it was delicious.”


Least Recognizable – Heather Nickell
”I Googled ‘world's ugliest dog’ for inspiration, but this being my first attempt at making fancy pancakes, it didn't really turn out how I planned and the kids thought it was a strange mushroom.”


Most Psychedelic – Erick Shemkovitz’s son
“No, it's not a crab with bunny ears.”


Joaquin Phoenix Award – Hannah Wong
”In my head I thought, I must write backwards. I must. So I wrote ‘cakepan’...and by the time I got to the N I was laughing so hard because I wrote it the right way, not the mirror image way.”


Least Appetizing – Beth Septapus
”It's supposed to be a tapeworm...yep!”


Ugliest Bunny - Nat Conner and Jess Orz
”We had fun trying to make the ugly pancakes.”


Most Intellectual – Peter Conerly
”…a pancake face throwing up more pancake.”

Protozoa

I’ll eat you up

Ugly Pancake Contest

Well, the artsy pancakes didn’t materialize this weekend, but you know what did?  This ugly thing.

Think you can make an uglier pancake? 
Rules
1. It must be mostly pancake batter, and cooked like a pancake.
2. You (or someone) must eat it.
You have until Saturday, May 19, to send me a photo of your creation.  Winner will be chosen by my 4-year-old son.  Honorable mentions will also be included on the site.  Send your photo(s), title, and explanation to

Pancakes of Saipan

Pancakes of Saipan by Nathan Shields is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://www.saipancakes.com/2012/04/saipancakes.html.