--- title: Guy Fieri Lookalike Kid Has Fun flavortown theme party description: There was a ranch dressing fountain and a cake shaped like nachos canonical: https://time.com/5411737/guy-fieri-party/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-10-01T19:26:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:46:14.153Z og:title: Guy Fieri 'Lookalike' Kid Has Epic Party With Ranch Fountain og:description: There was a ranch dressing fountain and a cake shaped like nachos og:url: https://time.com/5411737/guy-fieri-party/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1ec03923fe1c1c5/69893b92db29873abe260d51/kid.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2048 og:image:height: 1152 og:image:alt: Kid og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Guy Fieri 'Lookalike' Kid Has Epic Party With Ranch Fountain twitter:description: There was a ranch dressing fountain and a cake shaped like nachos twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1ec03923fe1c1c5/69893b92db29873abe260d51/kid.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Guy Fieri 'Lookalike' Child Celebrates First Year on Earth With a Party Where the Ranch Fountain Never Stops Flowing > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 1, 2018 7:26 PM UTC  One-year-old Guy Fieri lookalike celebrates birthday One-year-old Guy Fieri lookalike celebrates birthday by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 1, 2018 7:26 PM UTC A mother recently threw her one-year-old son an over-the-top [Guy Fieri](http://time.com/5021413/thanksgiving-chefs-what-not-to-serve/)\-themed birthday party complete with matching flame-covered shirts, a sleek hot rod, temporary tattoos, a cake shaped like extreme nachos, and a ranch dressing fountain. When Nataly Stein’s son, Campbell Young was born, the doctors told her that he had a rare condition that would make it nearly impossible to eat common foods. (“Like a pretzel could put him in liver failure,” she told _TIME_). When she found out that Campbell was merely a carrier for the ailment and he could eat anything a typical one-year old would want to try, she knew exactly where she wanted to take him—Flavortown. For Campbell’s first birthday, Stein threw him an over-the-top [Guy Fieri](http://time.com/4360104/guy-fieri-johnny-cash-hurt-compilation/)\-themed birthday party complete with matching flame-covered shirts, a sleek hot rod, temporary tattoos, a cake shaped like extreme nachos, and a ranch dressing fountain. The idea wasn’t completely out of the blue. When Campbell was born, Stein was goofing around with her newborn and snapped a photo of him in her sunglasses with his hair spiked up with sunblock. “We were looking at him and thought, this kid looks just like [Guy Fieri,](http://entertainment.time.com/2012/11/14/guy-fieri-gets-served/)” she says in a phone interview. Over-the-top first birthday parties are a bit of a family tradition, too. When her older son turned one, it was mid-presidential election cycle, so she dressed him up as all the candidates and took photos of him. “Torturing a baby on their first birthday is just payback for everything they’ve done,” she says, laughing. Stein was willing to go over-the-top for her kid’s birthdays because the party doubled as a fun get-together for her staff with around 150 people joining the trip to Flavortown. It took Stein about a month to plan the shindig, thanks to her determination and years spent working as a party planner before she opened her [three bakeries](http://www.greatdanebakery.com/) in Southern California.  Courtesy of Nataly Stein While Stein hasn’t really watched Guy Fieri’s shows, she knew generally what he touched on and wanted the food to reflect his frequent trips to diners, drive-ins, and dives. There was a slider station, a mac and cheese array, Guy Fieri-themed cookies, and a nacho bar, but it was the milkshake bar with toppings like lollipops, gummy eggs, cookies, and ribbon candy that she deemed the biggest hit. “It was Flavortown to the extreme,” she said. “I was cracking up.” The other stand out was the ranch dressing fountain that came from “the bizarre gift shop” of the Hidden Valley Ranch website, where people could dip vegetables or chicken wings into the flowing white dressing.  Guy Fieri style ranch fountain and pizza cake for dipping. Courtesy of Nataly Stein Since it was a birthday party, the cakes were particularly important and Stein knew exactly what she wanted for Campbell. “He’s going to be the Mayor of Flavortown, sitting in a town of food. That’s how the food became life-sized,” she said. The result of the middle of the night stroke of genius and her staff was a series of cakes shaped like giant food, including a stack of pancakes, a giant hamburger, nachos, and a slice of [pizza](http://time.com/4814056/hawaiian-pizza-pineapple-sam-panopoulos-death/) being dipped into a [pool of ranch dressing](http://time.com/5376371/pickle-pizza/). After all that, Stein still came up with a unique smash cake idea for Campbell to dive into—a cake masquerading as a giant piece of Swiss cheese. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5411737/guy-fieri-party/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5411737/guy-fieri-party/"},"headline":"Guy Fieri 'Lookalike' Child Celebrates First Year on Earth With a Party Where the Ranch Fountain Never Stops Flowing","datePublished":"2018-10-01T19:26:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:46:14.153Z","description":"There was a ranch dressing fountain and a cake shaped like nachos","url":"https://time.com/5411737/guy-fieri-party/","keywords":["Newsfeed","food and drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1ec03923fe1c1c5/69893b92db29873abe260d51/kid.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1ec03923fe1c1c5/69893b92db29873abe260d51/kid.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Kid","caption":"Guy Fieri Birthday Party","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5411737/guy-fieri-party/","name":"Guy Fieri 'Lookalike' Child Celebrates First Year on Earth With a Party Where the Ranch Fountain Never Stops Flowing"}}]}] ```