How to make a beautiful fruit cutting for children?

Fantastic fruit sliced ​​on the holiday table will cause genuine delight in children, they will sincerely appreciate your efforts in serving dishes. Fruit flowers, boats, birds and animals will awaken the appetite and will appeal to even the kids who do not like fruit.

This word comes from the English carving - "cut" and implies artistic cutting of vegetables and fruits. Despite the English name, the art of beautiful cutting came to us from medieval East Asia, quickly spread and settled down in Europe.

Fruit carving for adults differs from children's dishes, with plots and some savory additives, for example, adults can afford cherries soaked in brandy. But children's dishes can be combined with candy and real miniature toys.

For carving fit any fruit, from seasonal to exotic. Of course, only fresh and ripe fruit should be in the children’s diet, but if there are many guests expected and the hostess is not able to cook everything in one day, some slices can be prepared in advance. They are stored in cold water or a vacuum container, and quickly darkening fruits are sprinkled with lemon juice.

Most of the artistic cutting elements are made with a sharp knife, but for more sophisticated and diverse subjects, you can buy carving kits at hardware stores.

Before proceeding with the plot design of the dish, you need to take note of some of the rules, They can be useful in decorating the children's table.

• So that children do not get dirty with sticky juice, fruits are more convenient to serve on skewers, and berries should be laid out in portioned waffle baskets. If slicing is done on a platter, dessert forks are provided for it.
• Ripe but dense fruits and berries are chosen for work; the softer the fruit, the worse it will keep its shape.
• Fruits are washed and dried in advance, using only a sharp knife.
• If berries or pieces of fruit are dipped into liquid gelatin or light sugar fudge, they will become shiny and last longer.
• A scattering of pomegranate grains or lingonberry berries will decorate the cutting of sweet light fruit.
• Apples and bananas darken quickly, they should be cut before serving.

A small selection of plot dishes will help to diversify the children's holiday.

The plot of a desert island with palm trees is often made of exotic fruits, this psychological method provoke the imagination of children.

The trunk is served by sliced ​​banana fruit, the top of the tree is decorated with green kiwi slices, and the sandy island is laid out in slices of tangerines. However, if you swap the mandarins and kiwi also turns out well.

Showing a little more imagination, you can complicate the plot, cut out the sun from a pineapple mug and decorate a palm tree with cherries, imitating its fruit.

Successful reception for a children's holiday, as each child receives an individual delicacy.

For the preparation of dishes are chosen beautiful multi-colored apples of the same size. The fruit is cut in half. A flower is cut from the half with a tail, and the pulp is removed from the other half and a container for the berries is formed. Then the apple is filled with ripe berries, and the flower is "planted" on a skewer.

The grapes are laid out on a plate, imitating the boiling water from which the dolphins "emerge". Sea animals are made simple and are very cute. For their manufacture you need to peel a banana in half.

Such dolphins can be inserted into beautiful glasses and filled to the brim with berries, and as balls, animals can be put in the mouth with blueberries. Each child will receive his portion of vitamins and sweet pleasure.

The flower theme is quite versatile, it is loved by both adults and children, it is relevant at any holidays. Flowers can be cut from a hard fruit or made up of small pieces.

The orange is cut into even thin circles, gradually spreading the rose, starting with a large circle and ending with the smallest. A bud is formed in the center and fixed with the help of toothpicks. The leaves are cut from green apples, they decorate the bottom of the composition.

To make a fruit salad look more appetizing, it can also be presented in the form of a flower, while using a variety of fruits. In the first row, in the form of a contour on a plate, kiwi are laid out, on them are slices of orange, in the next row imitate beautiful leaves with pieces of red and green apples. Among the motley beautiful cutting of fruits, an almost monochromatic banana-orange flower is formed, with a cherry in the center of the composition.

Everyone knows that watermelon is a berry. But it is perhaps the only berry from which it is possible to cut out whole sculptural images. Everyone can turn on the fantasy and come up with something different.

To create a ship, a small fruit is cut in two halves and cleaned of pulp. With the help of skewers, on both sides, several neat skips are fixed, imitating the bow and stern of the ship. Sails depict thinly carved watermelon crusts, worn on skewers.

The boat is beautiful in itself, but if you fill it with berries, it will turn into a distinctive fruit vase.

Most often, baskets are cut out of watermelons, because it is difficult to imagine a more beautiful carved container for appetizing berries. For making a basket, the watermelon is cut in half, but not completely. From the second half form a pen. All the pulp is removed. The edges of the basket and the handle can be made carved. On the peel of a watermelon, from the outside, with a sharp knife it is easy to cut out drawings, or inscriptions (for example, “Happy Birthday!”). Looks beautiful basket, decorated with patch leaves and berries. Fruits and berries not only fill the watermelon cavity, but also decorate the handle of the green basket.

Some craftsmen cut out such patterns from watermelons that it is difficult to believe in their reality. Watermelon masterpieces will first decorate the holiday, and then become a delicious dessert.

Also a good idea for a children's holiday table would be the creation of various animals from watermelon fruits. From this dish, children will certainly be delighted.

The so-called "salad on skewers." Each child will receive a whole set of vitamins, fireworks of flavors and at the same time does not stain his fingers.

Canapes look like children's kebabs, where instead of pieces of meat there are colorful tasty fruits. They are laid out in different ways and always have a cheerful rainbow look.

The theme of hedgehogs is always loved by children. How nice when these little animals on their needles bring delicious berries. On the plate you can make a big cute hedgehog from a banana and grapes. Or make small figures and place them among the motley fruit slices.

Christmas carving is most often represented by Christmas trees. They are made simply and contain a large number of tidbits.

For the base of the foam cut a cone, pieces of various fruits are strung on skewers and placed on the workpiece. Fruit Christmas tree allows you to roam fantasies, you can make any patterns, or “scatter” fragrant cubes in a chaotic manner.And then the fruit tree becomes a real Christmas decoration, it remains only to nicely serve to the table.

Kids love both candy and berries. Aerobatics for the children's holiday is the combination of two favorite desserts. There is nothing easier to stitch apples or oranges skewers with marshmallow, marmalade, toffee.

Fruit slicing may seem troublesome, but over time you realize how it carries away. Especially delighted children admire the eyes when they see fabulously beautiful desserts.

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