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An exquisitely decorated dish is an important element of the festive table. In modern cooking art "carving" is widely used, which represents figurative cutting of food products (mostly fruits and vegetables) and composition of beautiful compositions from them. Of course, like any art, carving requires talent and a high degree of skill, but the basis of carving can be mastered, if desired, by any mistress.

We suggest making a bouquet of fruits with your own hands. The composition can be a wonderful gift or an original decoration of your table. But at the end of the festive feast a sweet bouquet of fruits will serve as a delicious light dessert, which children and adults will gladly enjoy.

Master-class: a bouquet of fruits

You will need:

Adaptations

• wooden pointed skewers;
• molds for carving (you can use the usual forms for biscuits);
• culinary scissors;
• sharp knife;
• a beautiful container for setting the composition;
• components for the preparation of a salted dough (salt, flour, water and a little vegetable oil).

Fruit

• pineapple medium size;
• a small melon;
• large berries of strawberry;
• seedless grapes;
• leaves of curly parsley.

Tip: for making fruit bouquets it is recommended to choose strong fruits of medium ripeness, from dense pulp it is easier to cut out elements, and in the subsequent components of the bouquet will retain its beautiful appearance longer.

How to make a bouquet of fruits?

1. Cut the pineapple into circles with a thickness of 1.5 cm. Using a mold, we cut flowers out of the circles (this can be done with a knife)
2. Spoon grab small slices of melon pulp and cut out small circles - this will be the middle of the flowers.
3. String on the skewers strawberry berries.
4. We also pierce the skewers of grapes.
5. To put a bouquet of fruits in the chosen vessel, put a piece of salted dough on its bottom. To make it, mix the flour, salt, water and two tablespoons of vegetable oil thoroughly. In the resulting mass, the components of the bouquet will be securely fixed.
6. We place the components of the bouquet in the vessel, inserting skewers into the dough. At the same time, to make the fruit composition look presentable, it is necessary to make the skewers different in height.
7. The final touch is decorating the bouquet with parsley.

You can experiment by making original bouquets of fruits. Look beautiful in the compositions of watermelon, melon, nectarine, peach, mandarin, kiwi, quince, plum, strawberry, grapes, pineapple. It is undesirable to use fast-darkening on air slices of apple and bananas. But apples can be used entirely.

Ideas for creating simple compositions

• Edible bouquets can be supplemented with chocolate sweets.
• Look great fruit and berries in chocolate glaze. To do this, the fruits, in whole or in part (depending on the intention) are dipped in the melted warm glaze, then wait until the chocolate coating is properly frozen.
• It is very good to use in making a bouquet of glazes of different shades, choosing varieties of chocolate: milky, bitter and white. If there is a skill, it is possible to decorate the items with glaze patterns of a different color, squeezed out of a cornet or a confectionery syringe.
• An interesting solution - immediately after glazing to roll fruits in coconut shavings, ground nuts or waffle crumbs.
• Exquisitely look mono-bouquets (consisting of identical elements).
• To fix the leaves, colors of a more complex shape, you can use toothpicks.

Undoubtedly, a unique and delicious (besides dietetic!) Bouquet of fruits will bring a lot of joy to the originator of the celebration of any age. If you treat yourself to an unusual dessert of your guests, then be sure, they will long and sincerely admire your skill.

Also you can decorate the fruit in the form of beautiful slicing .