A Ukrainian architect turned pastry chef is combining her two sets of skills to create design-inspired desserts, using a 3D printer. Di'nara Kasko says her aim is to make sweet treats that at first glance don't look like food at all.

A futuristic, geometric design - but what is it? Cut it open and all is revealed: it's a cake. These are just some of the unusual desserts created by Ukrainian pastry chef Dinara Kasko using 3D printing technology. Social media has enabled her unique desserts and cakes to become increasingly popular in Ukraine and beyond. Kasko uses 3D-printed moulds.

DINARA KASKO CONFECTIONER "The idea behind these desserts was that when people ate them they wouldn't be able to understand what it was. Is it a cake or not, what is it? Just some kind of colourful object, that was the idea, an architectural object."

Kasko's cakes begin life on a computer screen in her small apartment in Kharkiv. It's the place where her dreams of sharp-edged shapes and glittery baubles are turned into edible reality. The cakes are shaped with silicone moulds, each one modelled by Kasko herself. She plays with different shapes and angles. It takes from several days to several weeks for her to design one mould and then about a month for its physical production on a 3D printer. And her recipes are carefully planned, too.

DINARA KASKO CONFECTIONER "What's more important: the look or the recipe? For me, the recipe is more important because a cake must be tasty. Even if it's really beautiful from the outside but not tasty, or not tasty enough, that is bad. It must be first of all tasty as it's meant to be eaten."

Kasko says she's simply putting her own architectural twist on a craft that's existed for centuries.

DINARA KASKO CONFECTIONER "Confectioners have always had, and still have, loads of different moulds. But usually the moulds are all round and streamlined. Whereas I wanted to create moulds with sharp edges, provocative ones."

She's hoping her creative geometric designs can inspire others to experiment with their own ways of breaking the mould. LQ, CGTN.