Hi Angela! Yes, we are aware that they aren’t edible which is why we used a cake topper. This was an older post so we just saw that the link to the cake topper has sold out but this is similar to the one we used: https://shopstyle.it/l/0GeZ. Don’t worry! We did research on the flowers and have seen it being used on other desserts. You have to actually ingest a large amount of the buds directly for it to have serious effect.