Wedding cakes with fresh flowers: features and options

Any completion of a wedding is always a tasting of a delicious wedding cake and a tea party. Regardless of the format of the wedding being held, be it home, classic or luxuriously lush, dessert is always served as the culmination, which the newlyweds are the first to try. Today, a variety of pastry chefs can offer a lot of different cake ideas that they bring to life. But some of the most interesting, of course, are the options with fresh flowers and berries.

Decorating wedding cakes with fresh flowers is a relatively new fashion for this kind of confectionery, since earlier professionals used exclusively creams and mastic. Today everything can be combined.

• The use of living plants on the cake allows you to get a real and at the same time a unique piece of art.
• Using flowers, you can not be afraid for the tiers of the confectionery, there can also be several of them.
• Whatever the flowers, they will surely be an integral part of a romantic and desired event.
• Natural flowers look more original and effective in comparison with cream ones, since live plants are not imitations.

• Decorating cakes and cupcakes for it with fresh flowers is much cheaper than the usual cream decor or decor with mastic, moreover, the result does not disappoint, but, on the contrary, exceeds all the expectations of guests and newlyweds. Pastry chefs also love to cook and decorate these types of cakes as it takes less time.
• Flowers can be chosen in a wide variety of colors, and therefore it will not be difficult to create a cake that will be the perfect complement to the style of the bride and the wedding in general.
• Fresh flowers are very often supplemented with various edible berries, which also look very beneficial on a wide variety of confectionery products.

You will learn how to decorate a cake with fresh flowers by watching the following video.

On the Internet, you can find a huge number of options for decorating wedding cakes with fresh flowers. Next, we will consider the most original and unusual ideas that you can take as the basis for your future wedding cake.

• A white cake with blue hydrangeas can look very elegant and modern. However, this option is usually selected for a themed wedding, in which blue and blue shades prevail.
• White cake can be complemented with luxurious red roses. Scarlet peony roses located on a three-tiered wedding confection look especially advantageous. The very design of the cake can be smooth or complemented by various cream patterns.
• White roses with buds and decorative greenery can look great on a white or dairy product. The relief textures of multi-tiered cakes look especially advantageous. Very often, experts install orchid twigs on the classic options.

• Spring flowers from apple trees can look quite original, however, they are not easy to get, especially if the celebration does not take place in the spring season. A cake with white apple flowers can be favorably complemented with pale pink roses and their buds.
• Flowers in cold purple tones can also "get along" well on a white cake. Purple orchids play very favorably with white roses and peonies. Flowers look especially advantageous on a gradient cake covered with cream.
• Pansies, cornflowers and even lavender look no less beneficial on wedding confectionery. These pieces are great for summer themed outdoor weddings.

Floral confectionery products with berries added to them require certain rules to be followed.

• it is best to add seasonal berries to any cake, they look more lively and beautiful, and in addition, they are quite juicy;
• Confectioners arrange the selected berries and fruits in a chaotic manner and depending on the flowers (here everything is thought out in advance);
• fruits are very often laid out in tiers in the form of a cascade.

If there are live plants on the cake, this does not mean at all that the berries cannot be made from cream. As a complement to live flowers, flowers can be made from mastic or cream. In this case, the newlyweds should be aware in advance which flowers should not be eaten.

Before choosing a wedding cake for such an important event, there are several points to consider and expert advice.

• Floral decorations should definitely be combined with the future table setting, as well as with the design of the dishes. It is very important to think about this moment in advance, discussing all the nuances with the pastry chef and the wedding organizer.
• If you do not want to completely decorate the cake with fresh flowers, then you can easily diversify it with the help of classic figures of swans or some other figures made of mastic.
• When choosing a wedding cake with live roses, you should be careful, because these flowers begin to wither very quickly without access to water. But orchids, on the contrary, last long enough, and they look very original.

• To decorate wedding cakes, it is strongly not recommended to use toxic flowers with a strong aroma. These include lilies of the valley, calla lilies and some others. Confectioners who decorate cakes with such decor must definitely notify about such plants.
• The "winter cake" with fresh flowers and fresh berries, which are sprinkled with delicate powdered sugar, can look very exquisite. This cake looks like it is covered with a delicate veil of snow.
• Some ladies decide to make a cake at home, so if possible, it is best to take garden flowers for decoration, since they are not stuffed with various chemicals, unlike purchased greenhouse ones.

• Whichever flowers are chosen, it is very important that they come into contact with the cake to a minimum. This will not only preserve the beautiful design, but also prolong the life of the plants.
• It is very important to discuss all the details of the decoration with the pastry chef. So, the confection must be decorated at least 2 hours before serving, otherwise the flowers may lose their beautiful appearance, as a result of which they will not only not please the guests, but will also look sloppy in photographs.
• Candy and caramel flowers, such as lavender, pansies, violets and chrysanthemums, can be a great decoration solution.
• It is better to choose flowers from those that will be present in the wedding bouquet. It is very important to pay attention to a beautiful cake stand, on which you can also place several fresh flowers that are present on the cake itself.

Summing up, we can safely say that the choice in favor of fresh flowers on a wedding dessert is a win-win. These cakes look fresh and modern and can complement any wedding identity.

To create a beautiful confection, it is very important to find a proven and highly qualified pastry chef who not only decorates his works beautifully, but also makes truly delicious fillings.