After scouring cake supply stores and cooking equipment stores for fun cake toppers, I always come back to fresh flowers from my garden. They just look so pretty! Do you use fresh flowers for cake decorating?
Flowers are so easy and beautiful. I find dahlias, gerberas and daisies to be my particular favorite for cake decorating. Not only are these varieties beautiful and brightly-colored, they hold up for a few hours in the fridge before serving. I like how sturdy and fresh they flowers remain. Plus, they really dress up a cake (this one reminded me of a big church-going hat).
Do you find yourself decorating with fresh flowers? If so, what types do you use?
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I made my daughter's wedding cake and used little pink roses and other flowers to conceal the uneven spots. The cake was muti-tiered but I did not know then about the leveler device that makes things look professional. It was beautiful and delicious and this reminds me to send the anniversary gift this week
Be sure if you are going to use fresh flowers that they come from your yard. Since commercially grown flowers are not meant to be eaten pesticide use is not regulated, and therefore are highly toxic.
I love the look of hydrangeas mixed with fruits.
Oh, I love this! My little girl is turning one in six weeks, and I've been turning over ideas of how to decorate her cake; I want something fresh and young and innocent, and daisies would be perfect!
I love flowers on cakes, if places correctly. But lemme tell you, after making many many wedding cakes in a shop, the fastest way to bug the decorators was for a bride to say she wanted fresh flowers on her cake (because it basically meant making a somewhat plain cake, setting it up and leaving the reception site then crossing your fingers the florist had the first clue how to put fresh flowers on food...most don't!) The only complaints I remember getting was from brides after their wedding that their cakes weren't what they had in mind and when we'd see pictures we'd know why- the florist crammed flowers all in a beautiful cake, scuffed or smushed parts up. Something to think about for any brides out there :)
When my cousin got married, there was a huge snow/ice storm and the bakery couldn't deliver their cake. Somehow they got another cake, a plain white three-tier cake, from a local bakery at the last minute and asked my mom (an artist with many talents) to decorate it with fresh flowers. I think it was the most amazing wedding cake I've ever seen when she and my sister were done with it.