Provenance is really important to bakers and chefs, knowing where their high quality ingredients come from and having confidence in producers and suppliers. Here are the really important things which you should consider when choosing where to source your edible flowers.
As a baker, it is your responsibility to ensure your cakes are safe to eat, and if you’re choosing flowers to put on your cake, although they might be there first and foremost for decoration, most cut flowers you can buy from florists and supermarkets are heavily sprayed with chemicals which are not for consumption, and may even be harmful to health.
Even organic flowers grown sustainably in the UK won’t necessarily be handled in a food safe way, which is why it makes sense to buy from a food business. At Yorkshire Edible Flowers, all our sustainable British flowers for cakes and food products are treated as food - we are a registered food business and we have experience of growing and selling fruit, veg, herbs and salads alongside our range of edible flowers.
We’ve also undertaken extensive research over the last five years to ensure that everything we grow is edible and we have a library of sources to consult around the edibility of flowers - each variety we sell has three separate sources to document their edibility, and the information we send out along with care instructions gives information about allergens which may be present.
So if you are looking to bake stunning edible flower wedding cakes and you want more information about what is edible, seasonal and sustainable, we would love to hear from you. We can talk to you about your design or colour scheme and you can speak to us with confidence that you are dealing with a food business which cares about provenance, great flavours, and seasonality.