Real Flowers On A Drip Cake
Decorating By bakemeenchanted Updated 12 Mar 2018 , 9:02am by bakemeenchanted
Hi everyone! I have a request to make a naked drip cake with fresh flowers on top. Just 2 roses and a bit of baby's breath. I'll be taking the stems and putting them inside a straw if I need to insert them in the cake.
I usually use white chocolate ganache to make my drip but I obviously don't want the flowers to come in contact with it. And I think putting down a wax paper circle will be too visible.
What options do I have? What about using Royal Icing for the drip so that even if the flowers touch it, they shouldn't leave any residue? Will it dry too hard to cut through?
Or straight white chocolate instead of ganache? That'll set firm but I think it still might stick to the flowers?
Thanks in advance!
Well in order to get such 'perfect, bug free' flowers they are treated w/some kind of bug repelent So even if you used the royal icing they might leave some sesidue :( Years ago I heard a lady who was both a flowerest and cake decorator explain how she always did her flower bedecked cakes: She laid down a large, thick amount of b'cream icing where flowers were to go - usually in a swag draped down the tiers. She *INSISTED* she was the ONLY one to cut & serve the cake so she could be sure that none of that 'pad' of icing was ever served.
Thanks for the reply kakeladi! Unfortunately this is a tiny cake for a private celebration so I won't be able to serve it.
But the pad of icing has got me thinking about whether I could put down a piece of fondant in the same colour as the drip just around the centre where the flowers go in, and then absolutely drill it into their heads that they have to remove it. Or even a piece of cake board covered in matching fondant. That'll even elevate the posy a few milimeters off the surface of the cake so I don' have to worry about leaves touching, and they'll definitely have to remove it!
I like your idea of using a cake board covered in fondant -- good thinking! :) Oh, Some flowers leak a fluid that can be poisionous:( so be sure you wrap those stems in foil or dip them in melted chocolate o rwax even when putting them in a straw. OR I've heard some people fill the straw w/b'cream - any of those ways is fine.
Most flowers you buy commercially are full of pesticides. I only ever use 100% organic flowers. Expensive, but safe. There is this round circle of hard plastic with holes in it you can use on top of your cake where the treated stems (dipped in parrafin wax, 100% food safe) you can arrange your flowers and they will never touch your cake. For the life of me I CANNOT find the name for it, or an image. Frustrating cause every florists carry them. I googled, but I obviously don’t have the correct terminology.
Thanks for the replies guys! The cake ended up getting cancelled so I didn't have a chance to try anything.
I think I'm gonna go buy some of those plastic holders anyway, just in case.
Thanks again!
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