Ideas for Food Garnish Centerpieces
You can make special centerpieces from food garnishes for your next event or as a quick snack for your family. Cut, skewer and style your fruit or curl and flower your vegetables to create a colorful display of healthful foods. You will need a knife, a melon baller, toothpicks and foam cones to make these food garnish centerpieces.
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Cut Fruit Cone
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Create a fresh-cut fruit display as a centerpiece for your island counter, dining table or buffet. Find foam in a cone shape at your local craft store and cover it with aluminum foil. Cut bite-sized chunks of pineapple, melons and kiwi and skewer them with toothpicks. Skewer whole strawberries, raspberries, white seedless grapes and cherries to design your garnish centerpiece. Begin by placing a row of large strawberries around the base of your cone with the other end of your skewer. Stack successive rows of pineapple, melon and strawberries until you reach the top of your cone. Fill in with grapes, kiwi, cherries and raspberries, and place a strawberry at the top.
Watermelon Boat
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Make a watermelon boat to hold the food garnishes for your centerpiece. Halve a long watermelon and scoop out the center with a melon baller. Save the watermelon balls to create your centerpiece. Scoop out the watermelon down to the rind to make a shell.
Make more melon balls with honeydew and cantaloupe. Fill the watermelon shell with sections of melon balls separated by medium-size strawberries, raspberries and seedless grapes.
Flowers and Curls
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Create fruit and vegetable garnishes for your centerpiece. Some of the best foods to use for this design are apples, cucumbers, asparagus and radishes. Cut red, yellow and green apple peels into curly strands. Soak the strands in lemon juice to prevent browning. Peel and slice the cucumbers into ¼-inch slices. Cut the asparagus stalks into 6-inch and 4-inch lengths to fit around the base and middle of a foam cone. Attach the stalks, flower side up, around the cone with toothpicks. Place a row of cucumber circles around the base of your cone, over and between the asparagus stalks. Make radish flowers by slicing down around the perimeter of the radish and soaking them in cold water until they open into a flower. Fit radish flowers between the tips of the asparagus stalks. Hang the colorful apple curls from the tips of the toothpicks you used to secure the asparagus and cucumbers. Fill in the cone as necessary with radish flowers and cucumbers.
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