These Flowers

look good enough to eat,

and you can!

they are all made of sugar, all photographs Luciana Gonzalez/Instagram, 

“I started gastronomy by chance,” Luciana told Sabor Vida. “I was an autonomous civil engineer and worked under the daily pressure of civil construction for 5 years, until I got sick. I was bedridden for three months without a precise diagnosis and under observation for a period in the ICU. I almost died. I always liked my profession, however I couldn’t live in that stress anymore.”

up until 2017, Luciana Gonzalez had never baked a cake in her life and had never enjoyed spending time in the kitchen. But three years ago the civil engineer decided to abandon her lucrative career in civil construction due to unbearable stress, and try supporting her family in another way,

after her former profession put her in the hospital, she decided to go to school again and learn another profession. The Senac Campos do Jordão school ofgastronomy was right in front of her house, so she decided to give it a try, despite her total lack of cooking experience,

Luciana Gonzalez is now a Brazilian confectionery master specializing in ultra-realistic sugar flowers, Her works is so incredibly detailed and delicate that you would never guess she has only three years of experience,

last year, Luciana Gonzalez became the first Brazilian gastrologist to have a stand at Cake International, one of the most recognized and coveted confectionery congresses worldwide. It was a chance to showcase her incredibly realistic sugar flowers and a recognition of her talent and hard work, today, Luciana Gonzalez is recognized as one of the world’s leading and most innovative confectionery masters in the world,

She is also a successful entrepreneur, selling books and online courses on making all sorts of exquisite sugar flowers, as well as various kitchen tools to make the process smoother, for more information on Luciana Gonzalez’s sugar flowers, check out her official site as well as her Instagram, from never baking a cake to this in just 3 years, amazing!