How to Decorate Your Wedding Cake With Edible Flowers

A strikingly beautiful addition to many wedding cakes has been to decorate them using edible flowers. There are a number of routes you can take with the blossoms varying in almost every regard (such as shape, size, color and taste). It’s a relatively easy process to choose the right flower for your cake, too. Here’s how to decorate your wedding cake with edible flowers.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• List of flowers available to you
• Refrigeration unit

1. Set up the rest of your wedding. The color scheme and venue of your wedding are going to shape what kind of cake you have. Then, when those facets are decided, you can choose your edible flowers.

2. Find out what edible flowers are available to you. Ask your wedding cake baker what your options are, so you know how much narrowing down you’ll be doing.

3. Taste the flowers. People are going to (potentially) eat the flowers you put on your cake, so the first thing you should consider is if they’re worth eating.

4. Choose the ones that look best on the cake. After you know they’re edible, now you consider the way they look and choose the edible flower that fits best.

Tips & Warnings

• If they’re not fresh, store the edible flowers in a tray of water in a refrigeration unit until they’re ready to be put on the cake.
• Consider using fake flowers made of crystallized fruit, candy or frosting if using real edible flowers doesn’t agree with your budget or palette.
• Edible flowers left out or placed on the cake too early may wilt and bring the entire cake’s style down a notch.
• There are around 100 common flowers classified as edible. Make sure it’s one of these you’re eating and not something toxic.

[PamelaAlexander]

on 1/4/2009 Most flowers that are available for sell have been purchased from commercial growers and most of them are from other countries. These flowers have been loaded down with chemicals and pesticides and would not be safe to it. Also a cake can asorb the fragrance of the flowers so you have to be careful when using fresh flowers on a cake