Christmas Food Serving Ideas

Hello my Friends!

I got inspiration for a few Christmas food serving ideas. They are three different "Christmas trees" snacks as Christmas tree sandwich, snack tower and Christmas tree platter.

 I am happy to show you my new  kitchen toys - a glass piramide for serving appetizers (Durobor.com) and wooden cutting board that I shopped at a local Christmas handmad fair (I felt in love with it. What a girl does need a cutting board to be happy :))

Oh I forgot about a tiny cutter that makes the tiny stars! Remind me to show you the gadget in my next post.



Christmas Tree Platter
Bell pepper, chees stars, olives, walnut, crab fingers.

Christmas Tree Snack Tower (Piramide)

Green green green bell pepper, olives and salad. Yum-yum.

Christmas Tree Sandwich
Chees, crab fingers, yellow bel pepper and olives. And a slice of bread for the platform.

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Chinese New Year Fruit Platters

Red and gold became the theme of our fruit platters made for the Chinese New Year event, by a customer request.

We used mango, strawberry, pomegranate, pineapple, watermelon, grape and oranges for these displays. What made the platters new year specially decorated was the fruit towers with roosters carved of pumpkin and eggplant.

Check out more about the rooster sculpture of vegetables;
Farm Themed Carving Dislays

Fruit platter with pomegranate, grapes, pineapple, watermelon and strawberry

Fruit towers with roosters

mango cuts 

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Christmas Tree Made With Potatos

What is this?

This is my Christmas tree made for the city Christmas Trees Event.

I used potatos and cocktail straws to build this art object.

Why potatos? Because this is my style.

Got a diploma and a gift certificate to a Spa

I am interviewed by a local media

caring for the tree

"Why potatos? How did you come to this idea?"

"Well, this is my style. I like working with the live materials. A month ago I did some decorating works, and been asked to create something special with using potatos. Then I created the potatos modules and used them for the table flower centerpieces. I thought that the construction units could be a cool idea for building the other objects. So I gave it a try, and here is the Christmas tree."

6 hours of work. 6 kilos of potatos. More than 200 straws used.

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Live Class 'New Year Fruit Arrangement'

The symbols of the arrangement:
lime for bamboo,
apple fans for the fan
pomegranates for Daruma eyes.



 

In December 2015 I participated in Ikebana exhibition in Yuzhno city. It was a New Year themed floral event with many wonderful ikebana arrangements made in traditional Japanese style. I gave a Live show how to make a fruit arrangement using the traditional colors of new year ikebana Kadomatsu.

Limes symbolize bamboo, pomegranates imitate Daruma eyes and apple carving in a shape of fan means paper red fan usually added to the traditional new year Ikebana arrangements.

 

Watch the video of my class where I show how to arrange the fruit Ikebana.

 

 

 

 



 

 



The exhibition's display of mine, with cabbage and flowers.

Ikebana arrangement with vegetables

 

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Long Fruit Gift Baskets

My new fruit gifts arranged in long wire baskets. Assorted fruits with floral décor look so adorable.

The fruit baskets were designed for a special client of mine, she has inspired me to create 'other'  things.

If you ask me to choose a favorite basket it is the pomegranates and red apples arrangements.

Like these fruit gift ideas? Be social and share with your friends!

 

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Xmas Fruit Tower

 



Say cheers to friends and family with the Xmas fruit tower of mandarins that makes a perfect gift for Christmas, or to say Happy New Year.

 

A box with chocolates makes up this tall arrangement.

 

 

 

 

 

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Fruit Santa. Christmas Themed Decorations Made Of Fruits

My Facebook friend Jørgen Vestergaard Nyhuus has made a cute Photoshoped picture with my Fruit Santa.

The Fruit Santa has been created for 1-year-birthday party,together with fruit tower and macarons christmas trees. Read more about those New Year themed edible decorations.

Fruit Santa

Christmas nad New Year themed decorations made od fruits and sweets

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Soap Carving New Year Decoration

Soap carving New Year decoration

I just started with a home decorating. The exhibition took all my time the last weeks and gave me no chance for shopping. But it did not stop me. I got an idea for these adorable soap carving new year decorations.

The decorations are made very easy. The simple soap carving details are attached to a transparent file cover with a super glue. I am in love with the weightless design, the ornaments look so nice on my table new year tree. Do these ornaments sound homey and vintage? And tasty? :-)

hand made new year ornaments



new year decorations made with soap



Christmas and new year home made ornaments

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New Year Tree With Fruits

New Year trees with fruits

This is my last work in the passing 2013 year. Sale of New Year trees, all made of fruits, of couse ;)

Happy New Year!

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New Year Fruit Garnishes for Cocktails

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Wish you to have wonderful holidays. 

Try these easy fruit carving garnishes for cocktails and drinks.

Christmas Tree and Horseshoes of apples 

for good luck.

Christmas trees of apple to decorate your drinks

Tools for Christmas Tree garnish:

Crincle cutter for the tree shape

U-knife for garlands

how to make new year tree garnish of apple

horseshoes of apple for good luck

Tools for the Horseshoe garnish:
thai knife

how to make Horseshoe garnish of apple

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Christmas Fruit Garnishes

Today I was invited to Sakhalin TV to show how to make a Christmas fruit decoration.

I explaned how to make a fruit bouquet and a mini fruit garnish for drinks, using simple cut methods.

The class was taken at "Chocolate" cafe, a cozy place with warm interior and tasty coffee&handmade sweets.

a cameraman at work

The TV show will be on air later. But I prepared a photo tutorial for my blog on making a mini fruit garnish for cocktails. You can read it right now by scrolling the page down! :))

You can also watch the last year Christams TV show, where I explained how to do a Christmas tree of fruit and sweets. Though it's in Russian,  I am sure you will get the method.

watch the last year TV show "Christams Tree of Fruits and Sweets"

Christmas Fruit Garnish

Tutorial

mini fruit garnish for Christmas drinks

You will need:
small mandarin
red apple

Martini glass

paring knife, scissors, toothpicks.

Instruction (click the images to enlarge):
1. Cut a small mandarin in half
2. Gently separate the skin of the flesh and turn the skin inside out.
3. Don't worry about the broken skin. Just cut off the damaged parts or make a zigzag cut with scissors.
4. You will get a nice mandarin star.
5. Cut 4 thin slices of the red apple.
6. Insert a toothpick into the slices to attache all sclices together. Make a fan of them.
7. Pin the mandarin star on the top and insert other toothpick close to the first toothpick to secure the fruit garnish. Use the gap between the toothpicks to set the garnish on the glass.

Pin a small grape or a berry on to the final garnish to hide a sharp tip of the toothpick.
This fruit garnish perfectly fits a martini glass.

Step-by-step photos

step 1

steps 2-4 how to do fruit garnish

steps 5-7 how to do Christmas fruit garnish

The fruit decoratin perfectly fits a Martini glass. 

Check out more Christmas and New Year fruit displays and decorations

More fruit garnish ideas for drinks and cocktails here

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New Year Apple Garnish

New Year apple decorations made with Triangle "Gourmet" carving tools

Would you like to have something special for your New Year party food? Why not try these apple garnishes looking like new year sphere decorations?

You will need:

Red apples,
decorative picks,
a nice ribbon.

How-to:

Take a decorative bamboo pick (various cute picks and skewers can be found at Restaurantware.com) and attach a nice ribbon knot to it.

Decorative bamboo picks

Make the pick shorter and pin into a red apple.

Red apple looks like a New Year sphere decoration now!

You can stop at the point or add a little carving work to the apple, it will look much impressive then.
For making the patterns on apples I used riffle cutters from Triangle carving tool set "Gourmet" .

Carving New Year styled apple

Here we go!

New Year apple carving 

Happy New Year!

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Christmas Food Ideas. Gnome Sandwiches

Gnome sandwiches

Cute Gnome sandwiches to make you smiling :)

Ingredients:

bread cut in half,

Hochland cheese,

olives for eyes and mouth,

small cherry tomato/carrot ball for a nose,

bell pepper (red, green, yellow) for hats,

mayonnaise for hat's fur.

See more sandwiches on GarnishFood Blog

Gnome sandwiches and cucumber curl

Shared at 

Hochland Facebook page 

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3D Chocolate - Christmas Tree, Hearts and Eggs - DIY

I have good news.
1. Some of the Carving Contest's winners have recieved their prizes.
2. It is December and it means Christmas Rush is on.

I have a big hope that all winners will get the prizes before December 31. I wish they can use the things for  the Holiday food presentation. 

As for me, I have got new toys too :) I try the new things out. One of them is Lekue silicone mold for 3D chocolate. 

3D Chocolate made in Lekue Silicone Mold

Christmas Tree, Hearts, Hare and Easter Eggs

3D Chocolate Christmas Tree

3D chocolate hearts

Chocolate made in Lekue 3D molds

You need:

Lekue silicone mold (Christmas Tree, LoveMold)

Chocolate (milk chocolate, dark chocolate, orange, green, white and any),

Sugar decorations for cakes (sugar balls, flaked coconut, sprinkle mix).

Method:

Melt chocolate in a microwave/water bath 

I use water bath. 

Fill the mold with melted chocolate and spread the chocolate by shaking the mold. When you shake the mold  you make air ball go out and the chcolate surface becoming smooth and shiny.

Put some sugar decoration on the chocolate surface.

Or you can go other way. Draw an ornament on the mold using a bright chocolate, let it freeze, and after that fill the mold with dark chocolate. 

Let the chocolate freeze. 

Gently demold chocolates and build the sculptures by bringing the parts together. 

Spread the melted chocolate in the mold.
Shake the mold to make the surface shiny and smooth

Easter eggs and hare 3D mold

freezed chocolate ready to be demolded

Easter eggs and Hare looks great idea for Christmas

3D chocolate Christmas tree and hearts

This recipe is submitted to:

No Rules Weekend Blog Party

Lets Cook Edible Gifts For Christmas 1 Dec - 31 Dec

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