I agree, the Flora Danica cake is gorgeous.
Colette Peters did my best friend’s wedding cake. She is famous for her sugar flowers, every one made by hand.
I don’t like real flowers on a cake either, I think they’re tacky; but Colette’s are all edible. She is a genius and they look unbelievably real. Colette Peters has a few cake decorating books and they are wonderful.
Colette Peters’ books are what inspired me (20 years ago) to become a cake decorator. I bought one after taking my first Wilton class and said “I want to do that!”
Now I do! I have stood at her elbow and focused a video camera on what she was doing for a class at convention, and I have had a number of classes with Nick Lodge, who made one of Princess Dianna’s and Prince Charles’ wedding cakes.
You can tell who my friends are at a wedding. They will walk up and carefully touch a flower to see if it is real or not.