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Fruit Carving Show

>> 5/13/2014

When Tom Cruise and Olga Kurilenko broke an ice sculpture at a Taiwanese premiere of Oblivion, and the Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs did a Watermelophant Contest, I got that carving art could be turned into an entertaining show. I've had a dream to do a fruit carving perfomance one day. I took down a plan of my possible show including jokes, funny stories and sketchs of garnishes which could be intersting to visitors. I was prepared to meet my chance :)

The opportunity came to me in the begining of May, when I did a Fruit Carving Show at a movie preview "Kitchen In Paris", a comedial story about a russian cafe in Paris.

It was a 30 minutes fruit carving perfomance in the cinema theater before the movie. After a short presentation I involved people in to the art of drink garnishing.

I had some cretaria for my show:

beign kids friendly with family content
using easy techniques with a simple knife
show fruit garnishes that people do not expect to see
connection with the movie theme

Instead of 30 minutes I had 1 hour show. When the movie started I still had people at my desk.

See the following pictures of the show.

Photos by Sergey Shalin

Speed limit "Five drinks in hour"

More photographs of the show are published here http://citysakh.ru/news/40150/

New Year Fruit Garnishes for Cocktails

>> 12/25/2013

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.

new year tree apple carving garnish for drinks

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

Christmas Fruit Garnishes

>> 12/20/2013

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

fruit garnish for cocktails martini glass

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

Edible Button. Fun Apple Garnish

>> 10/31/2013

I continiue the series of easy fruit garnishes for drinks. This edible button of apple is a real fun.

You will need:
an apple,
an orange,
small U-knife
peeler with eyers

Instruction:
1. Cut a slice of apple with skin
2. Make 4 holes with a small U-knife
3. Carve 2 strips in orange using a peeler eyer
4. Insert the strips into the holes. They are threads imitation
5. Decorate the button's rim
6. Use the button as a fun garnish for drinks and desserts.

Simple Apple And Lemon Garnishes For Drinks

>> 9/16/2013

These garnishes are very easy and quick to make. You just need some cookie cutters. Your kids will help you.

Bicolor Heart garnish of apples

Bicolor heart garnish made of apples

You will need:
red and green apples,
heart cookie cutters in big and small sizes

Instruction:
1. Cut two slices of green and red apples
2. Using a big cutter cut out red and green hearts. Then using a small cutter carve out a small heart inside the big heart.
3. Swap the small hearts to compose the bicolor hearts.
4. Srick the garnish to the glass by cutting both small and big hearts like shown at the picture.

Instruction on making easy apple garnish

Butterfly garnish of apple and lemon

Butterfly garnish of apple

You will need:
lemon and red apple,
butterfly cookie cutter.

Instruction:

1. Take a slice of red apple.
2. Using a bitterfly cutter carve out the batterfly garnish.
3. The apple batterfly and a lemon slice to be set on the glass.

Step instruction on how to garnish wth lemon and apple

Check out other ideas of using cookie cutters for making food garnishes:

Flower cookie cutters (mini pizza, sandwiches and sweet baking)

Stars cookie cutters for salad garnishes

Papillion Method For Making Fruit Sculptures. Dragon and Snake Out of Oranges

>> 2/15/2013

I am writing this post to share some news in the world fruit carving industry.

Mr.Paolo Pachetti introduces his fruit sculpting style named Papillion Method.
Paolo has DVDs for sale at his website. Now he is looking for students for his course on cocktail fruit decoration.

I purchased his DVDs in December 2012. I have 3 video tutorials on making a fruit dragon, a lion and cocktail garnishes. Paolo uses pomelo fruit for the big sculptures and small citrus fruits for cocktails.

As far as pomelo is a rare fruit in my place I used grapefruits and oranges for the sculpting.

The dragon on the picture below was made for the male's 60th birhtday party (the birthday guy was the Dragon according to the Chinese astrology) in 2012.
Material: grapefruits.

how to make fruit sculptures papillion method

Fruit Dragon for 60th birthday party

Fruit Dragon sculpture, Papillion method

I found this method interesting and alternative to watermelon carving in winter (say 'no-watermelon-season'). The method allows to create various fruit models.

I did the Snake, a host of the year 2013, out of oranges for New Year exhibition.