Peaky Blinders Characters Imagined as These Delish Dessert Recipes

Peaky Blinders has a 16+ rating, and we recommend you read it only if you have watched the series to get the references. FYI this article is just for fun and take it as seriously as you would take a saucy limerick. Wouldn't it be fun to see some serious hard-to-crack characters walking around as desserts while having fistfights and pulling their guns on each other and with each injury, sponge cake flying around? The fun begins towards the beginning so don’t be surprised if most of the characters are from the beginning of the series. Join the fun by sharing your version of who is which dessert, here’s ours.

1. Caribbean Rum Cake – Arthur Shelby

Unstable Arthur has serious daddy issues, for lack of a better term, and it does not get better for he as he keeps spiralling downward. He undergoes a not-so-remarkable transformation growing more raunchy, aggressive and impulsive as the seasons progress. So, a boozy cake for the addict Arthur who can’t catch a break from his issues and is the peak embodiment of fragile masculinity and a fractured psyche. 

2. Eton Mess – Inspector Campbell

Second embodiment of fragile masculinity, Chester Campbell almost looks like one of the Thomson twins from Tintin. But comic relief is not what Inspector Campbell delivers, he is stiff with malice and becomes vindictive after being rejected by Tommy’s love interest and also his colleague. He kept renewing his rampage, not even being shot in the foot could stop, and he was out to prove his superiority and off the Shelbys. What else but truly English Eton Mess to represent the messy character that Inspector Campbell is? 

3. Dundee cake – Aunt Polly

She is the quiet matriarch, the old banyan tree of wisdom in the Shelby family who has got everybody’s back, but not at the cost of her own self. Mrs Gray knows self-preservation and is not afraid to put down her foot where necessary if the “boys” act too rowdy or go wayward. She would ride shotgun to preserve the family name and was fiercely loyal to her blood. Nothing but a Christmas-time cake with elegant almonds arranged neatly, with a rich history, to represent the matriach who has been through hell. 

4. Sachertorte – Grace Burgess

Almost like a mirror image of the main man Thomas, Grace somehow complemented (he deserved better) the complexity of the main man. It was hard to tell what exactly she was on about but eventually exited towards the beginning like her namesake, with a bang of course. She, however, did meander back into his life, to continue the tumultuous and torrid love affair but this time she stayed, after a littering of unfortunate events, some of both the parties making. So, a Sachertorte for the lady who had a death grip over Thomas and somehow complemented his turbulent demeanour and life. 

5. Lemon Drizzle Cake – John Shelby

Among the beastly members of the Shelby, no matter how hard this Shelby tried, he appeared like an kid wearing adult’s clothing. Always a apart of the triad, he got tricked into a shotgun wedding, for political reasons, and gullible as he is, he became pliant after one look at his beautiful bride-to-be. Despite how he appears to be, he is neither reckless as Arthur nor that cool-headed as Thomas, he’s a cross between the two. If looks could be deceptive he’s perhaps one of them and he is known to do well with fists as well as his intellect, that is eventually when reason penetrates after the famed Shelby anger fades. So, a lemon drizzle cake for the sweetest Shelby man with the zing of citrus to represent the spiciness of the gangster family. 

6. Black Forest Cake – Thomas Shelby

Keeping the boss for the end, Thomas Shelby is a black forest cake, because he appears deceptively simple and he is anything but a simple man. Exactly like the black forest cake which represents the wintry landscape of the namesake forest in Southwest Germany. Tommy gets browbeaten and has his share of trauma that gives him nightmares, but somehow there’s a heady quality to the man that is represented by the Kirschwasser liquor, used to drench the cake. He has a grey character and the epitome of peak masculinity from the era he sprung from. He is a fool in love, he’s a giver and undeniably soft that somehow draws women to him as well as men to hold him in reverence.