How To Add Fresh Flowers To Cake

How to put fresh flowers on a block!

As a hymeneals florist I am frequently asked to add fresh flowers on hymeneals cakes. Honestly, this was an extremely nerve wracking task for me at first. I was worried well-nigh putting fresh flowers on cakes that people would be eating and also virtually poking flowers into a cute, and non to mention really really expensive, wedding cake. The fact that I am writing a postal service to share my experience on this topic is a large deal because it is something I shied so far abroad from in the past!

I have come up with a couple of methods that brand me feel much more confident when putting fresh flowers on a cake.

How to Safely Put Fresh Flowers on Cakes

1. Choose your Flowers Advisedly

I will start by saying that when I, as a florist and not a chef, add together fresh flowers to cakes the intention is never that they will exist consumed, they are purely decorative. Notwithstanding, I still like to utilise flowers that I know to be safe equally they volition be placed very close to the cake. Carnations, mums, roses and spray roses are skillful choices for flowers that are readily available and non-toxic. In the summer in that location are more locally available proper edible flowers like pansies, lilac, and lavender. Ranunculus, peonies, and eucalyptus, while beautiful flowers, are not ones that I would recommend placing on a cake (even when merely decorative) as parts of them can cause stomach upset.

2. Apply Herbs as Greenery

This is my favourite trick when decorating a cake. I come across many photos of eucalyptus on cakes but unfortunately this is not a food rubber greenery and so I ever avert information technology. Herbs, however, make beautiful greenery accents on a block and in that location are many varieties to give you different looks. Thyme has a delicate feel, rosemary is a flake more stiff and has a very pretty colour, and bay leaves look almost only similar a rose foliage when placed beside the flowers on the cake. I will always use herbs over cultivated greenery only to be safe.

3. Insert your Flowers using Toothpicks

I have read many other posts on the topic of adding fresh flowers to cakes and many propose taping the stems or fifty-fifty inserting them into straws to place into the cake. I did this a few times merely I prefer this toothpick method I came up with considering it leaves a much smaller hole in the cake and makes information technology so that no part of your fresh bloom has to go into your cake. To use a toothpick, just cut the stem off of your bloom right at the base of the bloom and insert a toothpick where the stalk was. Advisedly stick the toothpick into the cake so that the base of the flower is not touching it. The flower is securely in place on the cake! Sentry the video beneath to encounter this action in greater item.

Decorating a Grocery Shop Block

Calculation fresh flowers, herbs, and fruit is a great manner to make a grocery store cake wait really special. For weddings I am typically decorating beautiful designer cakes but for this blog mail service I was but working with a cake from the grocery shop (that I iced myself…hence the uneven icing!). I hope this can inspire you lot to jazz upwardly a block the next fourth dimension you lot are celebrating with cake!

3 Designs for Putting Fresh Flowers on a Cake

Below is some inspiration for adding fresh flowers to cakes with iii unique designs.

Minimalist Block Pattern

Keep things lite and uncomplicated past using just one diverseness of delicate bloom to your block. I loved how the muscari looks like they're growing from the base of the block and came up and off the cake at the tiptop which further adds to the 'growing' feel. Sentinel the video below to see how I used toothpicks to secure the muscari to the side of the cake.

Asymmetrical Cake Design

This design had a focal spray at the base of the cake. Roses and spray roses are a great flowers for a design like this. Use herb greenery (I used bay leaves and thyme) to make the flowers look more natural and apply the buds of the spray roses to add more interesting shapes and textures. All flowers here were attached using the toothpick method too.

Lush Block Blueprint

This full and lush design gives the feel of a growing garden all around the base of operations of the cake and would be so beautiful on a larger tiered cake. A mix of flowers and lots of herbs as greenery made this an interesting design.