Fresh Flower Cake Decoration
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Fresh Flower Cake Decoration

Fresh flowers are always a great gift we can tell you that for sure. Did you know that cake artists across the world use many fresh flowers to adorn the cakes they make. Fresh flower cake decoration is cool new trend especially in wedding cakes. The recent royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to had a Lemon Elderflower cake decorated with about 150 fresh flowers like roses and peonies. The theme for the cake chosen for their cake was “bright flavours of spring” and there sure is no spring without flowers!

While fresh flowers are great to up the style and class of your cake, one should be mindful to eat them, for not all are edible. As florists we do know that flowers are sprayed with lot of chemicals to keep increase the yield and shelf life. Some flowers are downright poisonous and must never be used in anything that is edible. Of course the cake artists know their job and choose flowers that are safe. Its always better to make sure that the flowers do not touch the cake directly. Cake artists use a variety of techniques from clink wrapping the stems to using edible spray glaze to make sure that the flowers do not contaminate the cake in anyway. In case you want to try your hands with fresh flower decoration on your cakes, here is a post we found for you to read about how flowers can be used safely in cake decoration.

Safely Decorating Cakes with Fresh Flowers

International cake artists have been using fresh flowers to do up their cakes for a long time now. Indian bakers and cake artists are fast catching up with the western trend. We do supply flowers ourselves to The Green Dot Cheesecake, a local cake shop in Nugambakkam to help them adorn some of the wonderful cakes they bake.

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