Lifelike Buttercream Flowers Transform Ordinary Cakes into Bountiful Bouquets

Cakes with Buttercream Flowers

When is a bouquet of flowers not a bouquet of flowers? When it’s a cake, of course! Over the past year, we've been blown away by the artistic possibilities of sweet treats. From goth-inspired nuptials to confections with a painterly twist, it seems that the sky’s the limit when it comes to decorating desserts. Our favorite iteration of this tasty trend, however, is the buttercream flower cake. Seoul-based pastry chef Atelier Soo is the latest person to wow us with it; her ability to sculpt realistic floral creations is awe-inspiring.

Each of Soo's single-tiered cakes are loaded with a bevy of beautiful blooms that display an impressive array of colors, sizes, and textures. With such thoughtful arrangement and exquisite petal construction, the lifelike flowers hardly resemble food at all. But with sweet ingredients like butter, confectioners sugar, and whipping cream, you’ll want to take a bite of these cake flowers.

The desserts pictured on Soo’s popular Instagram are often produced for special events like weddings. She does, however, pass her expertise along to others and teaches classes on how to craft your own stunning buttercream flower cake.

Pastry chef Atelier Soo creates buttercream flower cakes that resemble beautiful bouquets of real blooms.

Cakes with Buttercream Flowers

Cakes with Buttercream Flowers

Flower Cakes

Buttercream Flower Cakes

Buttercream Flower Cakes

Buttercream Flower Cakes

Buttercream Flower Cake

Buttercream Flower Cake

Cakes with Buttercream Flowers

Cakes with Buttercream Flowers

Buttercream Flower Cake

Buttercream Flower Cake

Flower Cakes

Flower Cakes

Cakes with Buttercream Flowers

The buttercream flowers look so lifelike that you might not realize they're edible until the cake is cut!

Cakes with Buttercream Flowers

Atelier Soo: Website | Instagram
h/t: [So Super Awesome]

All images via Atelier Soo.

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Sara Barnes

Sara Barnes is a Staff Editor at My Modern Met, Manager of My Modern Met Store, and co-host of the My Modern Met Top Artist Podcast. As an illustrator and writer living in Seattle, she chronicles illustration, embroidery, and beyond through her blog Brown Paper Bag and Instagram @brwnpaperbag. She wrote a book about embroidery artist Sarah K. Benning titled "Embroidered Life" that was published by Chronicle Books in 2019. Sara is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art. She earned her BFA in Illustration in 2008 and MFA in Illustration Practice in 2013.
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