Hi! I'm struggling for ideas on how to attach fresh flowers to some sort of back board. I'm making a 3 tier semi naked Carmel mud cake, to which I need to some how attach fresh flowers, as in like the example below. Any ideas greatly appreciated. Due Aug 4, maybe just buttercream flowers??? Ugh I have no idea.
oh man what a challenge -- idk i've never done one -- i'm just gonna yap about it -- so if you did fresh -- it would weigh a lot and with that many different kind of blooms my first though is to keep them all from drooping and to use florist foam but geez that would be a nightmare because it would leak -- unless you had some kind of wild apparatus made that had plastic trays at intervals all the way up and the stems inserted in the foam somehow <<< headache alert -- then you'd have to also make it so it would stand up by itself and not put weight on the cake and be thin enough to appear not like a big thick thing in there -- this is getting doable in my gnarly little brain -- I love to build things -- but still a big job --
then for buttercream you gotta have a similar dealio that will hold all the flowers and build into the cake something that will hold the dealio -- like how about a piece of Styrofoam aka dummy cake piece that will be implanted into the bottom board and iced on the sides to look like cake that will be the thing that helps hold up the cake on one side (beside all the dowel of course) and hold the edible flowers up on the other -- that would work -- and i'd use more buttercream flowers on the bottom and more royal icing flowers toward the top -- and apply after delivery of course -- some buttercream flowers made in advance so they are dry -- and maybe some frozen so they will be soft and can be extra glue --
i'm gonna post this so far -- to be continued --
also for fresh you could use the Styrofoam thing and make small bouquets with those flower nail things or straws -- that would work too -- you would need to apply most of the flowers before placing the cake -- tons of last minute work -- charge charge charge --
but seriously silk would be easiest -- but fresh would be ah MAY zing zing
yeah that's how I would attack it but like I said -- I've never done one so there may be a better mouse trap somewhere -- at least some ideas for you
best to you
in fact -- so you get the idea of a slice of styrofoam behind the flowers and in front of the cake -- I would want to extend that into the middle of the cake making a "T" shape so it would be uber stable and probably stand by itself because I would have a groove cut/built into the bottom board to set it into too -- then put the cake around the "T" shape -- this would be uber stable -- so it would be a t with a short leg on it I think -- the cake would have a notch cut out to fit around the leg of the "T" -- if you can follow that
I mean after you start building you can see more readily what will work out best -- but those are some solid leads
and another thing that might come in handy if you go a route like this -- is to break popsicle sticks in half and stick them in the styro to help hold things up esp if doing buttercream -- you can plant a fresh piped rose right on there -- put it face forward -- so it's back is against the styro and it's side is resting on the sick --
I, personally, would consult a florist. They may have made a "flower wall" before (basically what this is but just on a smaller scale) and know the type of structure needed. You could work closely with them to figure out the best path forward.
that might work out great -- but you keep control of it -- my experience with florists is that they tend to overwhelm things -- if you tell them a 6" top tier they make an arrangement for an 8" cake that swallows the 6" -- not all of them but most of them i've ever worked with -- so i would suggest that you keep control of the project -- it has to fit a certain size cake and not everyone gets that -- plus it's food and the above average florist doesn't get that at all -- i'm sure there's great things you can learn though like freckles recommends -- come back & share what they say --
i mean you'll wanna know what kind of flowers last best -- carnations and roses i know -- and how to get them to open up -- and the best filler flowers -- hydrangeas fade fast -- another thing about florists -- tons of greenery -- i'm a little shut in today so i'm yapping too much here
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