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Hamish Blake just unveiled his son's 11th birthday cake in the most chaotic way possible.

It's that time of year when Hamish Blake stays up into the wee hours of the evening as part of his legendary cake-making marathon. This year marked his son Sonny's eleventh birthday — and boy, did he have a hard brief this year.

'Cake night', as it's now called, started back in 2017, when his then-three-year-old boy requested a cake based on the movie Cars. The loving father rose to the occasion, and so, a tradition was born. Now, bi-annually without fail, Hamish will stay up all night making a cake for Sonny, or his daughter Rudy, seven.

Since Sonny requested a Cars cake, the briefs have grown wilder and wilder over the years — from a Rainbow Vomiting Unicorn — to a solvable Rubix Cube.

This year was a beast of a different kind.

Sonny requested a cake of himself wearing futuristic armour with weapons and a large sword. He wanted his mini-me to stand heroically with one foot on top a small cave that had their cats inside it. And the finishing touch? The figurine must, of course, be able to chop the sword into a large number 11.

As the father-of-two said when announcing the brief, "the customer is always right".

Watch: Hamish Blake reveals Sonny's 11th birthday cake brief. Post continues below.


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With so many elements to the cake, it seemed like it would be a repeat of the Rubix cube night, which saw Hamish unable to crawl into bed until sunrise.

But, as the comedian wrote on his Instagram stories, there was "no f—king around" this time.

The first step really started a few days ago, when he enlisted the help of Brickman from LEGO Masters to create a skeleton out of LEGO. Featuring a pull-chord mechanism, the figure could swing its arm in a dramatic chopping motion, just like the client (Sonny) had requested.

So, holding the skeleton in one hand, and a glass of whisky in the other, Hamish locked in for cake night.

Things started off badly.

"I think I made a mistake when I told him the dimensions," said the father-of-two about the skeleton.

"I just kind of guessed when I told him that high, that's massive. This is a big thing, and it's too late to change."

He has, however, faced bigger hurdles before. So he soldiered on.

The next step was making the sword. Using a very noisy angle grinder, Hamish cut a kitchen knife in half.

hamish-blake-cake-night-sonny-2025Hamish cutting the kitchen knife. Image: Instagram/@hamishblakeshotz

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"Just telling Zo it's a cake mixer down here," the 43-year-old said on his Instagram stories, while his wife Zoë Foster-Blake presumably tried to sleep.

The knife, however, was too small to cut through the number 11. So Hamish tried again.

"I have destroyed a kitchen knife and if I were to cut a bigger one, that is a more valuable knife. Will my wife be angry at me? Yes. But no f—king around."

Grabbing some superglue, Hamish tried to attach the knife (sword) to the LEGO skeleton arm, gluing his own hand in the process.

At this point, Zoë, his sous chef, made a rare appearance to give her husband some nail polisher remover, which freed his hand from the glue.

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hamish-blake-cake-night-sonny-2025Zo to the rescue with some nail polish remover. Image: Instagram/@hamishblakeshotz

With another sip of whisky, Hamish sculpted two number ones out of a circular cake (that he definitely baked himself and didn't purchase).

Then he realised the risk of building a cake around a large kitchen knife and decided to enlist some safety protocols, such as placing half a cherry tomato on the tip of the knife.

Hamish then began to build 'cake Sonny' out of icing.

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"Rather than measure heaps of little bits, don't think, just do," Hamish said as he worked.

hamish-blake-cake-night-sonny-2025Hamish had finished the 'Sonny' part of the cake by 1am. Image: Instagram/@hamishblakeshotz

At this point, it was 11pm, and the comedian stopped for a whisky break.

"That old familiar feeling (is) sinking in," he said. "I might have said to my wife that we'd be done by midnight this time around. No f—king around."

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"Top up sir?" asked his official 'cake night' cameraman Mike, as he poured more whisky in Hamish's glass.

As he got back to work (no f—king around!), the chaos continued.

"There's a cat eating cake behind you," Mike whispered.

Sure enough, Hamish's pet cat was on his kitchen counter taking a bite out of the cake.

Hamish jumped up and removed the furry interloper from the scene of the crime.

He got straight back to work.

hamish-blake-cake-night-sonny-2025Some slight interruptions when Hamish's cat decided to take a bite of the cake. Image: Instagram/@hamishblakeshotz

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This is when he really locked in.

12:06am. A sip of whisky.

The face of 'cake Sonny' was complete.

12:52am. Another sip.

Hamish broke a pair of sunglasses to make a visor for 'cake Sonny'.

"This is genius sh-t," he said.

1:30am.

"I know we said no mucking around," Hamish said, before revealing he made a phallic shape out of the leftover icing.

"Is this just because it's 1:30 in the morning and we've had a few drinks, is it funny to leave this in the fridge for my wife?"

"Saturday banter," Mike confirmed, and Hamish put it in his fridge.

1:59am and disaster struck.

The two number ones that Hamish cut, without measuring, were too big for the cake. But the father-of-two was quick to enact a contingency plan.

hamish-blake-cake-night-sonny-2025The ones were way too big, but Hamish had a back up plan. Image: Instagram/@hamishblakeshotz

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"We're going to pre-cut them and have a fishing wire on the day to pull them off," he said.

Then he realised he'd missed a very important part of the brief.

"When it's past 2:30am and you remember your son put two cats in the sci-fi scene, and those cats will not make themselves," Hamish wrote.

No f—king around!

He made the cats and by 3:03am he was done. Not a bad time for someone who once stayed up until 6am on 'cake night'.

"I officially pronounce this cake operational, ready to thwack, ready to cut the 11 in half," he said, before taking the safety tomato off the knife.

hamish-blake-cake-night-sonny-2025The final product! Image: Instagram/@hamishblakeshotz

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"Barely 3 o'clock? We can go out!" he joked to Mike, with one final sip of whisky.

Ending on a sentimental note, Hamish shared a message for Sonny.

"Happy birthday to my favourite guy in the world. Forever. Love dad."

Until next time, cake lovers.

Feature Image: Instagram/@hamishblakeshotz.

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