See the amazing birthday cakes this San Francisco baker makes for the Warriors

A cake made for Draymond Green's birthday, honoring both the Warriors and his college team, the Spartans. A cake made for Draymond Green's birthday, honoring both the Warriors and his college team, the Spartans. Photo: Pretty Please Bakeshop/Courtesy Photo: Pretty Please Bakeshop/Courtesy Image 1 of / 15 Caption Close See the amazing birthday cakes this San Francisco baker makes for the Warriors 1 / 15 Back to Gallery

Andre Iguodala is not a birthday person.

A few days before his 33rd birthday in January, he tweeted, "Heads up... anyone wish me a happy bday getting blocked."

Meanwhile at Pretty Please Bakeshop in the Inner Richmond, baker Alison Okabayashi was trying to design Iguodala a birthday cake that he clearly didn't want.

"I saw that he had said on his Twitter that if anyone wishes him a happy birthday, they're getting blocked," Okabayashi says. "And I'm like, great. I was out of ideas."

But not quite. What about an "unbirthday cake"? Okabayashi pitched to the Warriors. They loved it. The finished cake was a simple round adorned with script frosting that spelled out, "This is NOT a birthday cake."

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Okabayashi became the baker behind the Warriors creations after she made a cake for the young daughter of Nanea McGuigan, the team's director of basketball administration. The "Frozen"-themed cake was such a hit that McGuigan came back to Pretty Please Bakeshop for Warriors' birthdays again and again.

As each birthday rolls around, McGuigan and Okabayashi team up to brainstorm ideas.

"Sometimes she knows exactly what she wants to do. Sometimes she has no idea so then we hit the drawing board,"Okabayashi says. "I'm a fan, I was before we started doing all of this, so we just kind of do our research and find out what we can.

"It might be something about the players' life or their college... Sometimes it's just something we might get a kick out of based on what we know about them from interviews and social media."

For Klay Thompson's birthday, there's always a reference to his beloved dog Rocco. Anderson Varejao's cake featured a basketball with a mop of his signature curly hair. And Draymond Green's cake had a little sugar-gum paste Michigan Spartan that was so precise people refused to believe Okabayashi made it.

"There was a recent article about the cakes in the Wall Street Journal and the comments were saying that we bought plastic figure for the top," she says. "I was like, 'No, I made that with my hands!'"

Beyond the elaborate designs are simple, classic cakes. Most of the Warriors prefer standard flavors like chocolate or vanilla. Steph Curry's favorite is red velvet. Green likes strawberry shortcake.

Okabayashi got her start in baking after teaming up with a fellow student at the California Culinary Academy's Baking and Pastry Arts program. The two started a custom cake design studio which has since morphed into Pretty Please Bakeshop.

When she's not making Warriors cakes, she's crafting customs cakes for children's birthdays, baby showers and, of course, weddings. She's even made a birthday cake for one Riley Curry.

When asked if any one design stands out, Okabayashi pauses for a long beat.

"I love them all for different reasons," she says. "That's kind of the beauty of custom designs. You can fall in love with any of them for different reasons."

To see more of Okabayashi's creations, visit the bakeshop's Instagram.