Hi everyone? I've been asked to put fresh flower as their cake topper on a fondant cake. How do i do that? Do i carve the cake & put the foam inside the cake or do i put it in a separator board? Please help me. I have to deliver it on the 15th of may.

thanks.

The most important thing is to be sure the flowers are people safe. I've done lots of silk flowers recently and don't like the holes they would create so I cut a piece of styrofoam to the correct size, clean it up so there are no small bits and glue a cake board (cardboard, with the cake side left clean) to the styrofoam. I put a daub of bc on the cake and sit the cardboard/styrofoam on top of the cake and then I'm ready to arrange the flowers. The only thing I found is, I have to be careful to cover, hide, the edge. (And, it won't support long stems.) HTH

Thanks for the additional knowledge. One more thing that i've heard is when using floral foam for fresh flowers, you make a hole in the cake and put the foam covered with foil inside hole.
Do you make a hole BEFORE covering it with fondant or AFTER you have covered it with fondant?

I'd recommend making the hole and lining it with fondant.

You're not suppoused to make a hole in the cake. If you're using fresh flowers you need to soak the floral foam and the water can seep through the holes in the foil. I use a special foam that comes with a liner. It's called minideco from smither oasis. and I put a circle of wax paper or parchment on top of my cake then the minideco with the flowers.

Those are cool!! Thanks for posting them!

Have you considered using flower picks? They are food friendly and easy to find (you can get them at most craft stores). You just stick them down into the cake. They hold the flowers steady and are alot easier than dealing with the hole foam thing. Just a thought.