Sunday Sweets Spotlight: Elena Gnut Cakes

I'm doing something a little different this week, Sweets fans:All of today's cakes are by the same baker.Why?Because after ten years of searching out the best cakes the web has to offer, it takes a lot to impress me. And Elena Gnut, a culinary artist from Kaliningrad, Russia, knocks my sugar-loving socks off. Her cakes are pure art, incredibly unique, and I think you're going to love them. Here, just look at her hot air balloon cake topped with floating butterflies: That's all hand-painted! And her soft watercolors on the butterflies make them feel like something out of a dream. More surreal sweetness: this leaping goldfish: Everything here seems to defy gravity - and you KNOW those chocolate orbs are filled with something delicious. I love the 3D sculpted wings on this fairy/angel: And speaking of sculpting... this is cake: WOW. This one should be on a marble plinth in an art museum: In fact, Elena could sell photos of this, right? I think I could stare at those textures all day.…

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