Things You'll Need:
- sugars cubes
- lemons extract
- red or green grapes
- candied cherries
- semisweet chocolates
- Brazil nuts
- peelers
- green gumdrops
- kumquats
- kitchen knives
- maraschino cherries
- waxed paper
- Waxed Paper
- Waxed Paper
- Candied Cherries
- Green Gumdrops
- Kumquats
- Lemons Extract
- Maraschino Cherries
- Red Or Green Grapes
- Semisweet Chocolates
- Sugars Cubes
- Kitchen Knives
- Peelers
- Brazil nuts
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.










Comments
tmcrill said
on 4/7/2009 Great garnish ideas. #4 was a definate wow factor!
Coach4U said
on 3/1/2009 Thanks for the tips.
labellefleur100 said
on 1/25/2009 Lovely idea! So lovely I tried it and had perfect toppings, It was great! 5* rcmd.
SimplyFree said
on 1/24/2009 I love these awesome garnishings. Healthy too!
betterbody said
on 11/22/2008 Loved these ideas, Thanks.