GarnishFoodBlog - Fruit Carving Arrangements and Food Garnishes

Baked Banana & Ice cream Dessert For Drivers

>> 7/14/2011

The "Drivers" dessert was inspired by a baked banana recipe what I have found on a new cooking service eRecipeCards.com. I have never tasted a baked banana before, so then I saw an original recipe of grilled bananas with milk chocolate in Jam Hands blog I understood I should give it a try.

To make a "Drivers" Dessert you need:

baked banana with chocolate,
ice cream,
any syrup,
garnishes form pear and apple in a shape of gear-wheels and traffic signs (like the one in the Lightning McQueen watermelon project).

How to bake bananas with chocolate

For 2 persons I took 2 bananas and a kind of chocolate we use for a chocolate fountain. Slit banana in half and stuff it with chocolate. Bake for 5-7 minutes.

While I had my bananas baking I took a time to make fruit garnishes.

Gear-wheel garnish from a pear

(see Lightning McQueen Watermelon project)

you need a thai knife and an apple corer

cut a pear off and make it round.

use an apple corer to thirl the pear item in the center

create a gear-wheel design in the pear item using a thai knife

Serve a dessert

Ripe some syrup in the bottom of the dessert bowl. Add ice cream and hot baked bananas. Fill the bowl in with ice cream and garnish the dessert with a pear gear-wheels and some berries ( I used honeysuckle from my mother garden ;))

Gear-wheels carved in a pear

The important note: eat the dessert immediately while the chocolate is melt down and the ice cream is frozen. Mmm.. yum-yum

Greasy road traffic sign carved in apple

Check up my tutorial page with free downloads on fruit sculpting and food garnihing

Lightning McQueen Watermelon Bowl

>> 7/05/2011

Related articles:
Hello Kitty Watermelon
Cute Fruit Sculptures For Kids Party
Free Downloads Fruit Sculpting Tutorials

I've made the Lightning McQueen watermelon bowl to a little boy's birthday. Kiryll, or Kirya for short, is a name of the birthday guy. I carved the letters in red apples and attached them to the pineapple slices to create traffic signs.

The watermelon is carved as a basket. You see an image in the front side and enjoy fruits from the basket on the other hand.

Next I've got an idea to add a mechanics aspect. Please meet a spanner from a watrmelon skin and gearwheels from green apple!

I LOVE IT SO MUCH!

If you like to carve Lightning McQueen watermelon I have attached a stencil of the car.
See how to make a gear-wheel in fruits ("Drivers" Dessert)

PRINTABLES

click the image to enlarge and print

Kids Go Party. Cute Fruit Sculptures

>> 6/29/2011

Related articles:
Hello Kitty Watermelon
Peacock In A Melon
Korean Dol Party

Cute and fascinating fruit sculptures to kids and baby shower party.

Fruits:
watermelon.
melon,
orange,
apple

Submitted to:

Create n Carve ~ Fruit and Vegetable event by simply.food. Guest hosted bySara of Saras Corner

Free Downloads

>> 6/18/2011

Download my fruit carving files for free!

Vegetable Bell Pepper Flower, a step-by-step tutorial for carving a flower of bell pepper.

Exotic Flower With Fruits (orange and apple). I made this tutorial for "Yuzhno City" magazine. It is in Rusian and English languages. The orange flower with apple leaves is a very popular mini decoration that I use for Cornucopia and in other cases. PDF file, 3.2 Mb

Fruit Snowman (watch online). 2 Apples and 1 carrot are needed to make this fabulous Christmas fruit sculpture. Enjoy fruit crafting with your kids. The first time I made the Fruit Snowman demo was the New Year Exhibition in 2009. I had a great success then. MP3 wma file, Russian/English subtitle

Fruit Carving Globe

Having fun with photographs while recovering.

How I lost My Voice After Fruit Carving Presentation

Yes, the accident has happened to me. I lost my voice after fruit carving presentation.

There was Thursday. I was supposed to make a presentation for teenagers at the summer school. I was going to do a simple class on food garnishing for 10 pupils, but they actually were 30. As the school teacher said, the kids from my previous group were so excited about the food decoration class, so other pupils got a desire to try it too. Kids brought fruits and vegetables and I could not say "No". We split them up in three groups because I had 10 tool sets only.

I have been talking for 3 hours. After the second hour I got a sore throat. At the end I felt I got a temprature. When I came back home in the evening my voice turned down. The next day I lost my voice completely.

That was a first time I lost my voice after talking much. I don't remember if I forced it that day. Kids were quiet while listening to me. But they discussed the things emotionally.

I have been staying at home for 2 days already. Speachless. Disable talking by phone (I have dozens of missed calls). Having treatment.

I'd like to share some pictures from the class that day.

cutting cucumbers

busy with a process

having fun with a cucumber fan

we have made some easy garnishes for sandwiches

cucumber garnishes demonstration

a kind of garnish for drink :))

stairs to the space rocket :))

Hello Kitty Watermelon

>> 6/13/2011

More fruits for kids:
Orange Bunny
Chocolate Bouquet and Fruit Rabbits
Christmas Fruit Toys

I carved Hello Kitty watermelon for a little girl birthday. It was a fun to make it!

Hello Kitty watermelon

Hello Kitty cake

Hello Kitty entry participated in the Creat and Carve Event in June 2011.

Learn carving art and say your word about fruit and vegatable sculpting!

Fruit and Vegetable Carving Ikebana. Romantic style for wedding reception

>> 5/23/2011

Related posts:

Watermelon Tower

Ikebana With Watermelon

Wedding fruit carving arrangement made for Mega Palace Hotel, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk city.

Watermelon desigh inspiration by Francesco Scravaglieri Soap Album.

Fruit buffet for chcolate fountain

Radish and daikon flowers

Wedding reception hall

North Milky Shake With Cranberry and Plum Garnish

>> 5/02/2011

I am participating in Mocktails and Coolers Event (1st May - 31st May, 2011) hosting by Nayna. The Event is aiming to cool the sunmmer heat by sharing refreshing drinks.

Considering the weather we have today (the 2nd of May), there is a severe snowstorm here in Sakhalin, I have invented a North Milky Shake with cranberries. It is rich with vitamins!

Cooling milky shake - greetings from North
The white on the background is snow on the window glass.

Method:

Mix forest berries with milk in a blender. Then add cranberry syrop and shake well.

Done!

Milkyshake garnish:

A plum carved into a flower, a grape in the center, lemon strips and apple leaf for colour.

Fixation with 2 toothpicks.

North milky shake and cranberry syrop
Vitamins rich!

How to make a flower out of plum:

Cut a plum in half and remove a pit

make a zig zag cut

Separate skin and flesh. Form a nice flower

Milkyshake with a plum flower garnish

There is still a blizard. It's the 2nd of May on the calendar!

Check out more drink garnish posts:

Cute Drinks for Kids

Little Orange Sun to Bright Up Your Drink

Valentine Cocktails Garnish

Eco-Fashion Show. Flowers of Sakhalin 2011. Space Amazon Lady

>> 5/01/2011

Green EcoFashion Show was a perfomance during the "Flowers of Sakhalin 2011". Florists and Ikebana masters presented their dresses made from natural materials as flowers, leaves, plants, wood and food.

My eco project was a Space Amazon Lady. The costume was made out of birch branches, north bamboo (Polygonum sachalinense) and some grains. The Amazon model was supposed to be nearly undressed, so body art made the complete look.

Space Amazon Lady

Creators of Space Amazon Lady
From the left: me, Tanya (the model) and Anna (body art)

Tanya is wearing a costume. Crown from branches, necklace made of north bamboo.
The design on the shield is inspired by the circles on fields.
Materials for the shield: coffee beans, shell bean, orange skin. I also used orange skin for crown brooch