Wedding cake with fresh flowers?

I need some help regarding a 4 tier wedding cake using fondant with small bunches of blue hydrangea and white filler flowers to go along with it.

I will have to poke the stems into the cake, will the sap from the stem poison the cake? Or do i have to wrap the stem up with some foil or wrapper?

Wedding cake with fresh flowers?
Before you go out and hurt yourself or your guests you need to know that you should only be using flowers that are labeled "food grade" for cakes and salads.

Flower shop flowers have been treated with pesticides, growth hormones.......and therefore should not be used in food

Furthermore not all parts of all flowers are edible.

Go to a good produce store and see what they can get you from their specialty item suppliers.

Food grade flowers tend not to have the shelf life of their of their flowershop/ home center cousins so you may have to p/u the flowers and decorate w/ them the day of the wedding .

I know for a fact that fg nastursums(sp ?) are really fragile

Edit

As far as what wax use you're back to the requirement of using a food grade product but in this case it's easy because food grade paraffin for canning purposes [jams %26amp; jellies ] is a readily available product.

Honestly I haven't made a wedding cake since school when it was confirmed beyond all doubt that I do not have innate pastry chef talents. I understand it intellectually but the knowledge doesn't quite translate out to my fingers.

Good luck
Reply:Hi,



the cake sounds beautiful!



Hydrangeas are non-edible flowers. I don't think there's enough poison in one stem to make everyone sick but just in case, wipe any sap off and wash, dip in wax and wrap it in florist tape (the green sort) or aluminium foil.
Reply:you could dip the stems in wax.
Reply:You should wrap it up in wrapping that they use at flower shops for corsages and mens flowers to pin to their suits. They will leak into the cake, but are not poisonous. It will look bad though if they leak badly.
Reply:I advise against the floral tape as there will likely be some flavor issues ... go with 2x-wax-dipped stems and cover as much of the stem that will be in the cake plus a little extra ... I think flavor and appearance would be more of a concern that any health affect ... appearance b/c some people would consider a plant stem in their food to be a little uninticing - if you know what i mean ...
Reply:I had hydrangeas poked into my wedding cake this summer. Just to make sure nobody was going to die at my wedding, i called a local flower shop and made sure that they were safe. They said that they are poisonous if eaten in large quantities, but that putting them in a wedding cake would be more than safe.



And it was...



I would not recommend using the floral tape that florists use.... I have bitten it off the roll before, and it has a horribly bitter taste. You wouldn't want it to ruin your cake.



Hope this helped!

gert