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.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

  • Waxed Paper
  • Candied Cherries
  • Green Gumdrops
  • Kumquats
  • Lemons Extract
  • Maraschino Cherries
  • Red Or Green Grapes
  • Semisweet Chocolates
  • Sugars Cubes
  • Kitchen Knives
  • Peelers
  • Brazil nuts

Step1
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.
Step2
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.
Step3
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.
Step4
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.
Step5
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.

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on 11/22/2005 You can make real candied flower garnishes by lightly brushing edible flowers (nasturtiums, pansies) with egg whites or corn syrup and then dusting with sugar. Once dry, they can be stored in an air-tight container for many months.

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on 11/22/2005 Dip grapes, berries, or other fruit into light corn syrup and then into sugar. Let dry.

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