A South Korean pastry chef with an eye for photorealism is taking the internet by storm with her blooming creations. Transforming plain iced cakes with skilfully piped colorful bouquets of flowers, the buttercream petals look like they are straight out of a florist’s window display. Moreover, they’re not only visually stunning, they’re edible, too. Seoul-based pastry chef Atelier Soo uses colored icing atop single-tiered, fondant-topped cakes to sculpt her realistic creations. Each leaf and petal is piped individually, then layered, with delicate color gradients and different textures emulating nature’s bounty. Soo studies and sketches her flower petals on paper before the work is even brought to life, sharing all stages of the delicate process with netizens on Instagram and on her website. “It is already 9 years … but I feel like I have turned 9 years old,” Soo posted on March 15 (as translated from Korean), sharing a photo of …