Easy Fruit Garnishes - Apple Boat

Apple boat - easy fruit carving lesson

Fruit carving video today!

An amazing apple boat, a super easy fruit garnish you or your child can do too.

This apple boat is the most popular fruit garnish I show at my fruit carving demos. It is a quick and easy super hit.

You need the following fruits and tools:

Apple
Orange skin
Toothpicks and a wooden skewer
Paring knife
Small size melon baller

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 October is a wonderful time of the year. Everything is amazing about October - changing leaves, comfortable clothes, pumpkins, festivals, and Halloween.

Let celebrate this time. Let thank and dream about coming things. Let create and invent.

My shop is now offering 15% discount for everything! Just type SHININGOCTOBER when purchase at Designed By Selena Ze Arteest on Etsy. The ending date Oct 31, 2016.

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Bride And Groom Watermelon Display

Bride and groom watermelon carving

One of my latest work is the wedding display with a bride and groom image carved in watermelon. Where are fruits, carved apples, and big red and yellow flowers carved from bell pepper, arranged around the watermelon. A sculpture of two dove birds are on the top of the watermelon.

If you like to learn how to carve the bell pepper flowers as on the photo try the carving technique explained in the tutorial "Bell Pepper. Food Garnish".

Bell pepper flowers

Fruit arrangement with watermelon for wedding party

Here is the back side view of the display. I decided to show this picture too ))

View of the back side of the display

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Gold Fish. Food Garnish Tutorial

A new tutorial is available at my Etsy shop.

Gold Fish. Food Garnish

Tutorial for food garnish

Instant PDF download

14 pages of step by step instructions with large photos on making the fish garnish.

Buy the tutorial at my Etsy shop or mail me directly to selen15367@yahoo.com

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Fruit Art. Apple Panda Tutorial

Dear friends,

Hope you are enjoying the summer time and good things are coming your way this season.
As for me, I became a media person and time to time I am on TV and news timelines here and there with fruit carving, ikebana and even more activities :)

I remember about my blog activity too. So a new short PDF  tutorial is ready to be downloaded.
"Fruit Art. Panda" tutorial is a lesson from the complete guide "Cute Fruit Sculptures For Children".

The panda sculpture is made with red apples and some grapes using an orange knife. Though it requires some knife skills it is OK for beginners to start with and to do a wow-effect.

Fruit Art. Panda

Tutorial for cute fruit sculpting

Instant PDF Download

DIY Baby Shower fruit decoration

20 pages with more than 50 photos of step-by-step direction and extra 20 photos of fruit displays with using the cute sculptures.

Buy this tutorial at my Etsy shop or mail me directly to selen15367@yahoo.com

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Fruit Carving Tutorials, PDF Download

Here are good news for everyone who wants to learn fruit carving from me.
Two new tutorials on carving wowing fruit garnishes which amaze your children and guests. In the tutorials I explain in photos with detailed instructions how to make these fruit cuties.

Take advantage of the courses and make really good looking fruit decorations as you see in the pictures.

These fruit decorations are perfect for Baby Showers, children's birthday, kids party or simply Thank You gift.

Fruit Art. Apple Girl

Tutorial for cute fruit sculpting

Instant PDF Download

DIY Baby Shower fruit decoration

Buy the Apple Girl tutorial at my Etsy shop or mail me directly to selen15367@yahoo.com

Little Chick On A Fruit Plate

Fruit carving tutorial for making the great looking fruit platter for children

Instant PDF Download

DIY Baby Shower fruit platter garnished with the cute Chick/Penguin fruit sculpture

Buy the Little Chick tutorial at my Etsy shop or mail me to selen15367@yahoo.com

Enjoy fruit sculpting!

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Halloween Treat: Alien's Skull, Owl, Candy Corn Flower, Finger Cookies

Breakfast with a witch

Are you curious to know what a city witch has for a breakfast? Then you are invited to my home.

Today I have some fingers and aliens to treat you my dears. And a cool refreshing green potion.

Welcome to my kitchen. You will learn a super-easy method of cookie's decorating that you can use for making Halloween treats.
On the pictures you see ginger cookies in the shape of fingers (do you like the nail style?) and green alien's skulls.

Breakfast with the a witch.

Witch's fingers with green nail style

Grinning green aliens

A green potion I drink to stay young and beautiful

Halloween cookie decorating

I used a ginger cookie recipe to make the Halloween cookies as on the pictures. This time I designed  aliens, candy corn flowers, owl, mushroom, pumpkin and evil hearts.
What makes the cookies look bright is the glaze icing of yelk.

Aliens and Halloween candy corn flowers

Halloween candy corn flower cookies

Glaze icing recipe:

You need 1 egg. Separate the yellow yelk from the white yelk. We need the yellow part.

Add few drops of food coloring into the yellow yelk and mix well.

If you need glaze icing in more colors just divide the yelk in several plates.



Add few drops of food coloring into the yellow yelk and mix well

 How to make Alien's Skull cookie

1. Use the cookie cutter to cut a round detail.
2.  Cut off the details as shown in the picture #2 to shape a skull.
3. Use the small details to make eyes and grin.
4. Prepare the yelk glaze icing.
5. With a finger or a brush, apply the glaze icing on to the skull.
6. Place the eyes and grin on to the skull as shown in the picture #6.
Bake the cookies for 7-10 minutes at 180*C.

How to make Corn Flower

1. Use the flower cookie cutters, a big and a small one, to cut out the flowers.
2. Cut the small flower in 6 pieces.
3. Place the small details as shown in the picture #3.
4. Paint the flower in yellow and orange with the glaze icing. Bake the cookies for 7-10 minutes at 180*C. The white center is applied to the baked cookie and it the white yelk whipped with sugar powder.



 More Halloween cookie's designs

Owl, mushroom, evil heart and pumpkin cookies made with cookie cutters and painted with the glaze icing.

Cookies before being baked

Little owl cookie

Baked cookies

 HAVE A SPOOKY COOKIE HALLOWEEN!

More Halloween ideas:
Haunted Tree
Disney Theme For Halloween Treat
Guide To 3D Pumpkin Sculpturing
Beautiful Pumpkin Lantern. Step Instruction
Easy Halloween Pumpkins
My First-Time Pumpkin Lanterns

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Great Updates: A Personal Exhibition, Fruit Carving Tutorial and Shopping Time

What is new in the studio?

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I am proud to announce that I am scheduled for a personal exhibition at Sakhalin Art Museum in December 2014 - January 2015. I will present soap carving art works and fruit carving displays. I team up with my friend who is a painter and a craftwoman to do installations involving her paintings and crafts, my ikebana skills and our vision for art.

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The other great news, I have written a book.

This is a tutorial on making fruit carving models and displays for children. This book is a collection of my best selling fruit ideas invented for Baby Showers and children's birthdays, and it covers 3 year creative work experience of mine. There are lot of step-by-step pictures and detailed comments about the process in the tutorial.
The English text was fine-tuned by my friend Kathleen Richardson from Corning New York, USA, so reading the book will bring you a pleasure.
Buy this book in the Shop page.



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Visit my Etsy Shop for cute post cards based on my fruit carving displays and paintings. You can use the cards as invitations to Baby Shower or a party. You will find Halloween cards, Valentine's cards and simply cute cards in the shop. The cards can be framed and used as a decoration.




One of my favorite post cards is "Let's Hang Out" card with two animals at disco. The card looks good in both rotations, regular and turned upside down.




Regular rotation of the card

 

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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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How To Carve And Color Flowers of Vegetables. Carnation and Orchid Flowers

This small carving bouquet  in the photo is made with materials, which left after the "Australian" fruit display.

It's a simple bouquet arranged in martini glass, with carnation and orchid flowers carved of daikon radish. 

Today's post is about carving and coloring vegetable flowers.

How to color vegetable carving flowers

Liquid food colorings are perfect for carving needs. 10-15 drops are enough to 300 ml of water.

Add more coloring drops when you want to have your flowers brighter.

In 10 minutes remove your flowers on to a paper towel. Let them dry for a while (about 10 minutes).

You are done. Now you can use the colored flowers for arranging a display.

How to color flowers carved of vegetables

Simple technique of carving Orchids of vegetables

In my fruit carving job I use this quick technique to make branches of orchid flowers named Phalaenopsis. 

You will need:

a piece of daikon

a radish

Instruction:

1. Peel daikon and cut sides in angle to a point. 

2. Carve a simple flower as shown in the picture.

3. Correct  petals with a knife.

4. Color the flower in green.

5. Carve a rose of radish and pick together the green flower and the rose with a toothpick.

Simple method of carving orchid of vegetable

Color flowers of dailon in green

I like arranging these simple flowers in branches of orchids:

branches of orchid flowers arranged in an edible ikebana

How to carve carnation of vegetable.

Alternative method

I know two methods of carving carnation flower of vegetables. 

A famous one can be learned by watching the tutorial Thai Vegetable and Fruit Carving Book and VCD Multimedia, Original from Thailand

The other method of carving carnation was demonstrated by Thai chef, Mr.Chat Kunsri, at Carving Contest 2011 in Tokyo. The Chef did the flower in watermelon. See the pictures from his demo How To Carve Carnation In Watermelon

Carnation of daikon, carved by the Chef's method, and colored after.

Colored flowers in a fruit carving arrangement

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Watermelon Carving. Skill Training #2

Watermelon carving by my hand

This watermelon design is originated by japanese carving artist Yukari Tango. 

I saw this design at Facebook, it was reposted by my FB friends.  It captured my attention. I learned it details and tryed to carve in a small watermelon, which I kept for practising. 

Few days later I found a video of Yukari, she carves the same design in it. 

In this post I share the video How to carve this watermelon, and attached a few step-by-step pictures of my watermelon.

Video on the watermelon carving by Yukari Tango

Step-by-step photos and final work of mine

my work, carved in a watermelon from a local farmer market

Central part of the design

Steps

See also:
Watermelon Carving. Skills Training #1
Groom and Bride design for watermelon carving
My soap key to Miho Morita soap carving

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Wedding Watermelon Carving. Groom And Bride Design

Related posts about wedding watermelon carving:

How to carve Roses and Heart watermelon

How to make fruit tower with grape and apples

Groom and Bride design

I took some pictures when I was carving this watermelon with Groom and Bride image.

The whole view of the wedding fruit display at the head table:

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Simple Apple And Lemon Garnishes For Drinks

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

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