How to Make Flower Garnishes for Desserts

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Amaze your friends by garnishing your desserts with flowers made from nuts, chocolate, kumquats, or maraschino cherries.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Step 1

Create Brazil nut flowers by boiling the nuts, then removing them one at a time, quickly slicing them lengthwise with a vegetable parer into paper-thin curls and arranging the curls around candied or maraschino cherry halves.
Step 2

Make chocolate flowers by melting 2 squares of semisweet chocolate over low heat, allowing the chocolate to cool slightly, and then spreading it 1/8-inch thick on waxed paper. Refrigerate 10 minutes and cut into leaves, flowers and stems. Remove the flowers with a spatula.
Step 3

Create kumquat or cherry flowers by snipping kumquats or well-drained maraschino cherries into 4 or 6 sections, cutting about 3/4 of the way through, then spreading sections apart gently to resemble petals. Cut green gumdrops in half for leaves.
Step 4

Create flaming flowers by soaking sugar cubes in lemon extract just before serving, then placing 1 cube in the center of each kumquat or cherry flower and igniting the cube.
Step 5

Make frosted grapes by dipping small clusters of red or green grapes into water, then into granulated sugar or fruit-flavored gelatin. Dry them on wire racks.