Create Your Own Traditional Wedding Cake

You can create a ‘Million Dollar Wedding Cake’ by Using Edible Flowers!

Be it you or a friend who is handy with baking, creating a tiered traditional wedding cake is not hard and a fun project for a bride-to-be, her family, and wedding party.

Staying in the theme of your wedding can easily be carried over the same flowers used as decoration as well as on your wedding cake---and all can be edible!

Now, don’t start robbing a garden yet. Your wedding arrangements and wedding cake need to be researched on the internet for what flowers are edible. If in doubt, don’t use a particular flower!

An incredibly beautiful traditional wedding cake takes on an “haute cuisine” appearance and edible flowers have made a comeback to high-end restaurants as edible garnishes.

Using edible flowers for wedding cakes has resurfaced and it doesn’t take a huge amount of skill to take flower petals and arrange them in designs using a plastic stencil to stick them into frosting.
The idea here is the appearance of your wedding cake stays in theme with your wedding, along with your other decorations. In fact, you can go a step further and freeze ice cubes that contain the petals as well!

Edible Flowers for a Traditional Wedding Cake

Any type of cake batter for your ‘flowered’ wedding cake can be used but the most-often used batters are generally more condensed in texture such as angel food and sponge-type batters. This is in order to hold the weight of each tier with frosting so the cake doesn’t fall, collapse into itself, or lean like the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

The biggest things to remember is do notuse flowers from garden or florist shops, or from the side of the road. This is because, more than likely, they have been treated with pesticides or herbicidal crop dusting. Also, the pistils and stamens are not to be used.

Suggested edible flowers for your wedding cake include:

Calendula (Marigolds): Taste similar to saffron but vary according to type.
Carnations: Sweet, often used in wine and liquor-making.
Clover: Sweet flavour, similar to anise or licorice.
Cornflower: Sweet to spicy flavour similar to cloves.
Dandelions: Sweet flavour, similar to honey.
Day Lilies: Slightly sweet with a mild melon flavour.
Citrus Blossoms: Lime, Orange, Lemon, Grapefruit and Kumquat.
Gladiolus: No real flavour; similar to lettuce in taste.

The Biggest Secrets to Creating a Tiered Traditional Wedding Cake

The biggest secret to creating a tiered traditional wedding cake is keeping layers level and to cut the tops off each layer using folded foil (to the right width and circumference) around each wedding cake layer.

Each layer of the wedding cake is then turned upside down and brushed off so that frosting isn’t fighting with crumbs.

Begin places wedding cake layers on top of each other from largest to smallest (at the top).

Use wooden dowels or long drinking straws to anchor each layer of the wedding cake to add stability and avoid the layers of the wedding cake to shift during transport.

Edible Flowers Save on the Cost of your Wedding Cake---and More

Instead of trying to create a wedding cake using other (costly) methods, using edible flowers to decorate your wedding cake ties it in with the rest of your wedding decorations and condiments.
While choosing the flowers for your wedding bouquet, keep fresh edible flowers in mind for table centerpieces and your wedding cake as well!

Additional Resources for Edible Flowers for a Wedding Cake:

Forever Wed

Baking911.com

The Garden Helper