Hamish Blake Pulls All-Nighter for Epic Cake!

was very much in doting dad mode this week, staying up all night to bake an elaborate birthday cake for his son.

The funnyman, 44, shares two children – Sonny, 12, and Rudy, eight – with wife Zoe, and

And Hamish was back in the kitchen again on Friday, this time whipping up a manga-themed cake for Sonny's 12th birthday.

This year, Sonny asked for a cake based on the popular pirate-themed series One Piece, and Hamish was more than up to the task.

'Evening, cake fans. Let's cake,' he said enthusiastically at the beginning of his baking journey.

'I've got a lot of stuff going on in my mind because there's a lot to this. Essentially, we're doing this pirate ship – it's from a manga called One Piece – it's called the Thousand Sunny, this ship.'   

While appearing confident, given his experience with children's birthday cakes, Hamish admitted that he was worried about the construction of chocolate sails.

'The sails have been demanded to be chocolate – edible sails with that famous skull print on it – that's alright, that's after midnight,' he said.

Hamish then shared a slew of photos and clips that documented his cake construction, and the Lego Masters star certainly didn't do things by halves.

Starting off with a schematic diagram, and with a glass of scotch in hand, Hamish set about cutting pieces of Styrofoam to form the shape of the boat, before an egg had even been cracked.

With the night rolling on, he finally got to work baking and began assembling the chocolate sponge around the boat base.

While he expressed concern about the integrity of his chocolate sails, Hamish pulled off the difficult element with aplomb.

It was certainly not a rushed job, with Hamish finally placing the sails on the cake at 6am on Saturday morning. 

'She's heavy, she's a little wonky, but she's ours,' Hamish said as he held one of the sails aloft.