There is no better time than COVID to rediscover the baker in you. Cooking and baking not only fills our stomachs, but also nourishes our souls. The other thing that has helped us get through this time is nature and its breathtaking beauty in quiet moments. This baker decided to combine those two inspirations with her floral buttercream art, which has earned 100,000 followers on IG.
Based in Bangkok, Thailand, Kwun is an artist and baker who runs Butter & Blossoms. We have seen many pretty floral pastels and the realistic nature of Kwun’s art has blown us away.
Take this sculpture of a peony as an example. The ruffled nature of the petals and the unfolding motion add some serious movement to this food art, with soothing green leaves to add some balance.
We also love how he sometimes paints the stems and leaves on the body of the cake, with the flowers as a kind of crown, so it looks like a standalone bouquet. Looking at nature makes us feel at peace, but if we add dessert to this, we will have the best of both worlds.
Her flowers are made from ingredients like glossy buttercream and bean paste. The fact that it is not pure fondant leaves us speechless.
This baker thinks the rose is an easy classic that we keep coming back to. She mentions in her caption that this is the hardest flower to create. While the bright, vibrant flower shines here, what we really love is the leaf detail, which appears almost metallic. Apparently, the stem and vein detail is done with a spatula.
She’s practically inundated with questions about online classes. Everyone wants to make flowers like this buttercream master. We are also looking forward to your next class!
Until then, we can expect to see the regular posts on his YouTube channel, which may have fewer followers but much more valuable information on how to become a master baker. Watching her paint on the flowers almost feels meditative.
Kwun doesn’t just paint flowers in his delightful works of art. This Swiss buttercream creation is a portrait of lemons, and she really killed it with her shine. Why lemons? The baker explains that in her hometown, items with lemon prints are very famous, especially women’s dresses. She made this for a friend’s birthday.
Obsessed with this distinctive rose, but also with the integration of earthy colors against the pale shading of pastels. On a tanned and slightly brown base, it is a romantic and dreamy combination.
Can’t decide which flower you want? Get a lot of different ones in a dozen cupcakes. Sometimes the base of the frosting itself is a frilly swirl, but this one keeps things basic so the real works of art (the flowers, of course) can fully shine.
Sometimes you just see these cakes as beautiful creations of art, but this is proof that these cakes are edible and completely delicious. A moist, lightly browned sponge cake with an evenly dispersed cream cheese filling. This naked cake has a bouncy top and wonderfully sparse sides.
This amazing cake beats all other Mother’s Day cakes. We love how it is a verdant green instead of the typical pinks and purples that Mother’s Day treats are decorated with. She calls it her “Arabic jasmine sculpture” and created it because jasmine is the signature flower of Mother’s Day in Thailand.
Flavors on their website include delicious lemon, bananas for bananas, dreamy chocolate, and fluffy vanilla. Our mouths are already watering. While the artist’s favorite frosting is lemon buttercream with fresh lemon curd, her chocolate and vanilla buttercream is also quite popular.
Maybe try your own buttercream flower cakes at home using their YouTube videos as inspiration (talents like Kwun didn’t start out as prestigious bakers and masters of intricate details), they got there through practice. Combining Mother Nature with the relaxing feeling of creating art makes this a much-needed addition to our self-care routines.
