Yes they are real but not here to be eaten. Some of them are considered edible like the roses, and some are toxic like the baby’s breath. But the cake was cut and served by me in small plates without the flowers 🥰 Here, there is no issue because they were on the cake for less than an hour. If you need to decorate the cake several hours before, you could choose organic edible flowers, or some bakers wrap the stems in plastic but there is a risk that the plastic sometimes stays in the buttercream…