If your wedding has a floral motif there is absolutely no reason that you shouldn’t have those flowers decorating your wedding cake as well. According to Buckhead Wedding Cakes a bride can have the flowers in her bouquet replicated in butter icing or fondant on her wedding cake too.

Many pastry chefs nowadays specialize in making quite realistic (and tasty) looking flowers out of sugar candy. These flower decorations are usually hand made and more expensive then flowers squished out of a tube but they are worth it because they are so elegant looking. A good pastry chef can replicate almost any type of blossom including orchids, roses and calla lilies.

You can decorate a cake with all kinds of edible flowers. Here is a look at what is edible
* Artichoke (flower bud)
* Broccoli (flower buds)
* Cauliflower (flower buds)
* Chamomile (for tea)
* Chives (flowers or buds)
* Chrysanthemum (flower)
* Citrus blossoms (lemon, orange, lime, grapefruit)
* Clover
* Daisies (Bellis perennis quills)
* Dandelions (Taraxacum officinale leaves, roots, flowers, petals, buds)
* Daylilies (Hemerocallis buds, flowers, petals)
* Elderflower (blossoms for drink)
* Hibiscus
* Honeysuckle
* Jasmine (for tea)
* Lilac (salads)
* Moringa oleifera
* Nasturtium (blossoms and seeds)
* Osmanthus fragrans (flower)
* Pansies (Viola x Wittrockiana flowers, petals)
* Pot Marigolds (Calendula officinalis petals with white heel removed)
* Roses (Rosa petals with white heel removed, rose hips)
* Sesbania grandiflora (flower)
* Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus buds, petals, seeds)
* Violet (‘leaf and flowers in salads, candied flowers for pastry decoration’)
* Zucchini blossoms (blossoms)
Decorating your cake with edible flowers is a popular contemporary trend. However there is also a not so popular trend to place inedible flowers around a cake as a decoration or a garnish. For instance pink lilies, which are not edible could flatter a pink and gold themed cake. However some people could have reactions to the pollen in them.

Recently the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) had to put out a warning about the flower Ranunculus. Ranunculus blossoms are so beautiful that they look like sheaves of tightly wrapped tissue paper. They have tightly wrapped buds that come in beautiful weathered shades of pink that you think would make them a perfect choice for a flower centerpiece or even as a topper for a wedding cake. However as good as they look they are poisonous. They should not be placed anywhere near food or even on a food table!