A café manager in California spotted a Good Friday miracle in that morning’s breakfast orders when a face that resembled Jesus Christ turned up on a pancake.

Manager Karen Hendrickson said she was “excited and emotional” to see the face after praying to God to look after her restaurant the day prior.

_{Manager Karen Hendrickson and Raphael the cook (Rex)}

The discovery was brought to her attention by one of her employees at the Cowgirl Cafe, in Norco, California, who walked into her office with a camera-phone at the ready, saying that a pancake had just been made to order with the face of Jesus on it.

“My first words to her before seeing the picture was, ‘You've got to be kidding me’, because I thought she was joking,” said Hendrickson. “But when she showed me the picture, I was totally amazed.”

_{The employees who were working the day of the discovery (Rex)}

The holy pancake is only the latest in a very long line of food stuffs that the face of Jesus has turned up on.

In 2010, a curry house in Esher, Surrey received a bit of media attention after they served a customer a rogan josh and nan which the diner, David Howlett spotted Christ’s face peeking out of.

_{The holy nan (SWNS)}

Mr Howlett said: ''My wife and I were about to tuck into our food when I spotted Jesus looking right back at me. ''Needless to say I chose not to take a bite, and photograph it instead.''

Another Good Friday find, and perhaps one of the stranger examples was discovered in the centre of a Kit-Kat bar in 2009. "I was amazed. I just took a bite and then I saw the face of Christ in it," the finder told Dutch website NU.nl. Not everyone agreed however, with one witness observing: "It looks more like Darth Vader”.

_{Christ in a Kit-Kat (EUROPICS)}

Jesus Christ also made an appearance in a three cheese pizza at a Brisbane, Australia pizza parlour, which the staff promptly vacuum-packed and sold on eBay. The ad description said the pizza had already proven itself to be a lucky charm. "After discovering it, the owner of the store parked in a loading zone and didn't get a parking ticket,” they wrote. The cheesy manifestation subsequently sold for £98.

_{The three-cheese wonder Down Under(Rex)}

A young man from Lancaster who fell asleep with bacon cooking on the stove in March 2010 was amazed upon waking up that not only had he been lucky enough to not cause a fire, but also discovered a holy face peering out of the charred bacon grease in the pan.

_{Tony Elles poses proudly with his pan(CATERS NEWS)}

"My housemates and I had a few beers earlier in the evening I thought I would snack before going to bed and as it was cooking I decided to take a rest on the couch,” Tony Elles explained. “When I woke up about an hour later the room was full of smoke. It's some kind of miracle. If it wasn't for the smoke of the bacon burning this onto the pan it could have been a very bad situation, perhaps someone's looking over me."