Stars fan makes pancake art logo to celebrate Stanley Cup Playoff win

Dallas Stars fan art has never been quite so delicious.
Ryan Lewin, aka
Flippin' Art Dude
, a Dallas native and lifelong Stars fan, made a special pancake version of the team's logo to celebrate the team moving on in the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

"I've been a die-hard Stars fan since they came here," Lewin, 37, told NHL.com. "Hockey Hall of Fame forward] Mike Modano was my favorite player growing up."
Lewin was plenty happy after the Stars eliminated the Calgary Flames to move on to the Western Conference Second Round, and that brought out his creative side.
The result is beautiful and scrumptous, according to Lewin.
[Instagram from @flippinartdude: Dallas Stars logo pancake
"They taste pretty good," he said of his art.
Lewin said he uses "plain-old, add-water pancake mix" and a drop of gel-based food coloring, like the kind used in cupcake frosting, to get his colors.
He's given the pancake art treatment to everything from sports logos [his

was shared by team owner Mark Cuban] to actual athletes like

and

, to

to

and

to
country music stars
to

.
"The first one I ever made was Ariel from 'The Little Mermaid,' and it was a disaster," Lewin said. "Well, I thought it was a disaster, [my daughter] loved it. That's when I thought hey this is fun, I enjoy it and I get to tap into that creative side."
Although Lewin's work might fool you, he is not a professional artist. He's never painted and hasn't taken an art class since high school. His day job is in finance. He just loved to draw and watched some "how-to" pancake art videos. He's been making pancake art since last April.
He was discovered by Dancakes, a company that provides pancake art at live events, through his Flippin Art Dude Instagram page and was doing some freelance work for them, travelling to Miami, St. Louis and Phoenix among other places before the coronavirus pandemic limited travel and big events.
But plenty of his work has ended up in the tummies of his 6-year-old daughter, Emerson, and 4-year-old son, Jake, who attended his first Stars game in November.

"They're kind of over it. Like 'really dad, another Elsa pancake?'" Lewin joked. "But then they'll always have another request. They'll see the stuff in the sink and know I made something."
The ones that do not get eaten are stockpiled in his freezer, wrapped in wax paper. He can't just get rid of them. While a logo pancake may take 20-25 minutes, efforts like his

or his recreation of Norwegian artist

can take upwards of two hours.
Lewin completed a pancake portrait of Dallas Stars captain Jamie Benn on Sunday night, ahead of Game 2 of the Western Conference Second Round against Colorado Avalanche on Monday (9:45 p.m. ET: NBCSN, SN, TVAS).
Instagram from @flippinartdude: Jamie Benn pancake art.
"The tough part is when you're starting everything is backwards," said Lewin. "I've rarely had to re-do one. But when it comes time to flip it, my heart races."