To use a toothpick, simply cut the stem off of your flower right at the base of the bloom and insert a toothpick where the stem was. I did this a few times but I prefer this toothpick method I came up with because it leaves a much smaller hole in the cake and makes it so that no part of your fresh flower has to go into your cake. I have read many other posts on the topic of adding fresh flowers to cakes and many suggest taping the stems or even inserting them into straws to place into the cake. I will always use herbs over cultivated greenery just to be safe. Thyme has a delicate feel, rosemary is a bit more stiff and has a very pretty colour, and bay leaves look almost just like a rose leaf when placed beside the flowers on the cake. Herbs, however, make beautiful greenery accents on a cake and there are many varieties to give you different looks. I see many photos of eucalyptus on cakes but unfortunately this is not a food safe greenery so I always avoid it. This is my favourite trick when decorating a cake. Ranunculus, peonies, and eucalyptus, while beautiful flowers, are not ones that I would recommend placing on a cake (even when just decorative) as parts of them can cause stomach upset. In the summer there are more locally available proper edible flowers like pansies, lilac, and lavender. Carnations, mums, roses and spray roses are good choices for flowers that are readily available and non-toxic. However, I still like to use flowers that I know to be safe as they will be placed very close to the cake. I will start by saying that when I, as a florist and not a chef, add fresh flowers to cakes the intention is never that they will be consumed, they are purely decorative. I have come up with a couple of methods that make me feel much more confident when putting fresh flowers on a cake. The fact that I am writing a post to share my experience on this topic is a big deal because it is something I shied so far away from in the past! I was worried about putting fresh flowers on cakes that people would be eating and also about poking flowers into a beautiful, and not to mention really really expensive, wedding cake.
Honestly, this was an extremely nerve wracking task for me at first. As a wedding florist I am often asked to add fresh flowers on wedding cakes.
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