Chef Saltbaker

Appearance: Chef Saltbaker is a tall, anthropomorphic semi-transperent salt shaker with a chubby body who has a long, pointy nose and wears a chef's uniform, including a traditional white jacket with red-trimmed sleeves and a red ascot around his neck. In addition, his metal cap resembles a blanche. Additionally, in his climax, when he becomes evil and angry, he sports sinister-looking yellow eyes with dark circles around them.

Personality: In his introduction, Chef Saltbaker is a seemingly jolly individual with a kind attitude who usually tries his best to be as polite and generous as possible. He appears more than happy to help bring Ms. Chalice to life and even gives the brothers (Cuphead and Mugman) a special cookie that can temporarily allow Chalice to live on the mortal plane. However, after the requested ingredients to make the Wondertart are gathered, Saltbaker reveals himself to be a cunning and cut-throat individual, willing to sacrifice a soul to create this dish in his plot to conquer the astral plane. This degree of cruelty is further shown in his boss battle, where Saltbaker abuses and/or kills the living ingredients in order to battle their gatherers.

Story: Chef Saltbaker is first seen by the cups in his bakery after Ms. Chalice introduces Cuphead and Mugman to him. Saltbaker then reveals plans to make the Wondertart, where one bite of the tart allows Ms. Chalice to become alive without the use of switching bodies with someone else. Saltbaker then allows the three to fight bosses to collect the ingredients needed for the Wondertart and mentions the most important ingredient is heart and soul. Just like King Dice, after defeating a boss in Simple Mode, Saltbaker notifies the player that defeating them in that difficulty will not get the ingredients needed. However, after the players has beaten all the bosses, Saltbaker is not seen in his usual spot and the entrance to the bakery's cellar is revealed. In its secret laboratory where he is found working on the Wondertart, Saltbaker reveals that he intends to use it to conquer the astral plane and a literal soul must be added as the secret ingredient, the crazed chef having captured one of the three heroes as the ideal soul while the other two were out on their journey. Saltbaker then takes the gathered ingredients from the remaining heroes to use against them in an epic battle.

Abilities in his battle: Sugary cubes; Chef Saltbaker pulls out a gigantic version of the Icy Sugar Cubes with a sailor hat with the word "SUGAR" on it, pushes the hat away and hits it with a hammer and a stake to break it into smaller pieces, levitates some with his magic and blows them away. Five pieces travel from the side where the sugar cubes were pushed off-screen to the other in a wave pattern. Some sugar cubes can be parried. Desert limes; Chef Saltbaker brings up and slices up a group of Desert Limes, then pushes the slices away. Four slices appear on the side where they were pushed off-screen to the other end, then boomerang back. If they are higher when they appear, they boomerang lower and vice-versa. Lime slices that are initially moving can be ducked under, but ones that are boomeranging/on their second travel cannot. Distillery Dough; Chef Saltbaker conjures a rolling pin and flattens the Distillery Dough that comes in. He uses some cookie cutters to cut out some animal-shaped cookies and uses his magic to bring them to life. Six cookies bounce from the side to the where they are levitated off-screen to the other side. They can be defeated. Gnome Berries; A basket of Gnome Berries runs across the background. Chef Saltbaker squishes it with all his might and causes all the berries inside it to fly off-screen, with the basket running away crying. 12 berries rain down to the left.

Relationships: Chef Saltbaker has met a lot of people around the Inkwell Islands, especiall in the Inkwell Isle 4, the Island where he works as a baker. For example he has met three people called Cuphead, Mugman and Ms. Chalice, who are three anthropomorphic cup lids/teens, Saltbaker has always been all kind and polite to them, but has been always hiding his evil intentions to not startle them, as he actually doesn't seem to care much about them and is actually just using them for his own good. But he has met more people around the Isle than just them, for example he knows about Glumstone the Giant, the Moonshine Mob, Mortimer Freeze, the Boatman, Esther Winchester and the Howling Aces, who are some citizens around the Isle 4. He also knows about the polices and the Lawyer, and he is secretly terrified of them, concerned that they would find out about his evil deeds related to the Wondertart, so he tries his best to avoid them as much as possible. He's also heard of King Dice, an anthropomorphic dice who is very famous around all the Inkwell Islands, he's even considered a celebrity, and Saltbaker seems to be aware that he has his own show and that he also works in the Devil's Casino, and Saltbaker seems to respect and admire King Dice very much. However, despite him respecting the Devil too, just to be polite, he seems not to like him that much, as he finds the guy kinda creepy and weird, but he is kinda afraid of admitting that out loud.