Chris Holmes’s resignation letter wasn’t short, but it was sweet.

He wanted to leave his part-time airport job on good terms, so he baked a cake and iced it with his entire resignation letter.

“It took about an hour and a half to two hours to do the fondant and icing the letters on,” Holmes told the Toronto Star on Tuesday.

The 114-word letter including his signature, done with a flourish.

After three years of baking elaborate cakes part-time, Holmes decided to leave his passport control job at Stansted Airport and devote himself to his business and his new family. Son Benjamin was born March 7.

A friend reposted his picture on the social network Instagram and suddenly the new dad was a new celebrity.

“It’s been a real shock, to be honest. I didn’t mean for this to happen.”

Holmes, who decided on a cake resignation to also celebrate his 31st birthday on Monday, has had to turn down orders from places such as Sweden because he delivers each cake personally from his home village of Sawston in Cambridgeshire.

“It’s just me. I have stickers on the side of my car that say Mr. Cake. I like to get them there in top condition. It would be a bit too nerve wracking to ship it.”

Holmes’ signature cakes are whimsical creations festooned with fondant characters, from couch potatoes to pandas to rubber boots outside a camping tent. One birthday cake is even a shed surrounded by a blooming vegetable garden.

For his resignation, he chose an 18-egg spicy carrot cake with nuts and coconut, one of his specialties.

“I wanted to leave on good terms. I enjoyed my time there. But this is something I really love, food and cooking.”

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