On the eve of any holiday, the question always arises of how to congratulate a friend, loved one, relative. Sometimes it’s very difficult to choose a gift. Yes, and it would be nice to have some nice addition. Bouquets of flowers are not always appropriate, and not everyone loves them. And to give a box of chocolates in general bad manners. But there is an absolutely wonderful solution to such a question. You can give a juicy bouquet of fruits. Believe me: you will be original and pleasantly surprise a person. In addition, fruits are usually eaten by almost all people, even dieters, so surely please the person.
Know-how - a bouquet of “Juicy Fruit”
If earlier flowers were a mandatory addition to the holiday gift, now such a new invention as a bouquet of fruits is becoming more and more popular. Such a charm can be presented at any time of the year. In winter, of course, most of the bouquet will be from citrus fruits, but in summer you can not limit your imagination. The whole arsenal of summer fruits and berries will come to the rescue.
A juicy bouquet of fruits can be ordered, and it will be delivered to you on time, as is customary to order flowers, since now there are enough companies providing such services. However, do not rush to do this. You yourself will be able to create a delicious miracle, having general ideas on how to do this. Moreover, you can dream up and do something completely original and unusual. Perhaps your loved one will be pleased to receive a handmade gift from you. In addition, you can pick up for your gift the most beloved fruits of the person to whom the bouquet is intended.
Wedding decoration
In general, preparing such an unusual composition is a rather entertaining affair. Believe me, you will like it. One has only to try once, and then you will always be happy to make bouquets yourself.
By the way, the scope of fruit decorations is very wide. Now it has become very popular to decorate with them any festive tables. It can be an anniversary or another date in a restaurant or at home. The bouquet becomes not just a bright decoration, but also a delicious dessert. All guests will want to eat and taste ripe juicy fruits.
Such bouquets are especially popular for weddings. It is beautiful, and bright, and tasty. A festive table decorated with a fruity bouquet gains brightness, which is sometimes so lacking, especially in the cold season. After all, I really want bright colors and warmth.
As you know, in the hands of a good master, ordinary fruits easily turn into flowers, and dishes become a real work of art. And this applies not only to taste, but also appearance. No one can resist bright and juicy fruits. Such beauty can easily be done independently. It is only necessary to know some nuances, and then the fantasy will go into the course. With a little training, you yourself can create fruit miracles. And let everyone be surprised ...
What is needed for a fruit bouquet?
To make a real fruit bouquet, you can use absolutely any berries and the most juicy fruits. The main condition - all products must be fresh, dense, beautiful and not damaged. Of course, it is better to use juicy berries, fruits. But at the same time, they should not be ripe, otherwise the gift will quickly come out of juices. In general, you need to find a middle ground. Compositions can be supplemented with sweets and flowers. A good helper in creating unique images is chocolate. You can dip the berries into it before pricking it on a skewer, or draw elements on it with fruit.
The greens look good as a supplement. Mint is irreplaceable in this sense - it is edible, has a wonderful aroma and bright greens, which means it will look bright among tropical fruits.
In addition, some tools will be needed to work. These are knives, toothpicks, skewers, a round spoon for ice cream, scissors, cookie cutters. By the way, with the help of forms, figures are cut out from thick fruit pulp. Great for such purposes are apples, pineapples, mangoes.
But a round spoon is convenient for cutting balls from melon and pear.
How to make a bouquet?
As a first experiment, you can craft a simple bunch, and only later experiment with more complex techniques. Perhaps in the future you can become a real master and make a unique Thai carving with chrysanthemums and orchids from fruits.
Work should begin with the preparation of dishes for a bouquet. For these purposes, a vase, basket, pot is suitable. The cavity itself is filled with polystyrene, salted dough or clay. We will stick skewers into the filler, on which juicy tropical fruits and berries are planted. The vessel itself can somehow be decorated, pasted over with something, decorated with decoupage or painting.
Begin by planting fruit on sharp skewers. Barbecue skewers (wooden long sticks) are quite suitable. So, a piece of fruit or a berry is taken and half-pricked on a skewer. Grapes can be stringed in several pieces on one stick - you get a necklace.
If you want to use apples in your bouquet, then do not forget that they quickly oxidize in the air, darken and take on an ugly appearance. So, so that there are no such incidents, you need to dip each piece in a little water with lemon juice.
The bouquet can be decorated with bows made from bright ribbons tied under the berries. Having made a sufficient number of chopsticks with fruits, you can begin to insert them into the base. To make the composition harmonious, the skewers are placed evenly and symmetrically. It is necessary to pay attention to the slope and height of the sticks, creating a certain shape. The void between the skewers can be filled with flowers and mint greens.
You can arrange sticks with fruits and berries in tiers. For example, each tier is a certain type of berry. The largest fruits are located at the very top, and each subsequent tier is made of smaller pieces or berries. The decoration of the bouquet can be a large beautiful berry or figurine, which can be cut from pineapple (star, heart, flower, etc.).
An indispensable berry for creating beautiful compositions is strawberries. It can be dipped in liquid chocolate or decorated with chocolate patterns, icing or sugar fondant. To cover the berry with chocolate, it is drowned in a water bath until liquid. Then the berries are washed and dried, and then put on a skewer and dipped in hot chocolate. Before such a procedure, pre-berries can be held for several minutes in rum or brandy.
To make strawberries glazed, it is first dipped in cold water, then dried with a towel or napkin, dipped in chocolate and put in a bouquet. Even for decoration, right after the chocolate, the berry can be sprinkled in colored coconut flakes or nut crumbs. After absolute drying, strawberries can be painted with glaze so that there is a bright and contrasting pattern. To do this, use a brush.
Juicy fruits with sweets and flowers.
Juicy ripe berry fruits in a bouquet can be varied with flowers and sweets. For example, you can make strawberries with roses from silk. Berries are planted on skewers and fixed at the base, then decorated with homemade roses from silk ribbons or fresh fresh flowers. At the end of the holiday, flowers can be presented to guests.
Grape compositions with sweets and flowers are quite simple to make. You can cut roses from strawberries. A bouquet of pineapple flowers that are cut out by cookie cutters looks spectacular. Juicy fruit can be decorated with round centers of melon. As the petals of the bouquet, you can again use mint. Actually, instead of the vase itself, you can use melon. It is very comfortable and beautiful. Firstly, it is not necessary to decorate the dishes themselves, and secondly, it is very convenient to stick skewers into the pulp and do not need to fix them with anything. In addition, the melon itself is edible. However, any southern juicy fruit is good for bouquets.
Some ideas for bouquets
A wonderful gift will be a kind of bouquet in the form of sweets from strawberries. To create it, you need to cover five to ten berries with chocolate, and you can use a white, black and milky look. It will turn out brighter and more interesting. Each finished strawberry can somehow be painted with icing or roll in nuts. Ready strawberry sweets do not have to be stringed on skewers, you can simply put them on a beautiful dish or put in a box.
Any juicy fruit of bright color will look good in a sweet composition. In the summer, you can make a wonderful bouquet that will be completely inexpensive to perform, but very tasty and fragrant. It will require curly slices of watermelon, melon, apple. All these components are abundant in August and September. Grapes should be strung on individual skewers. The bouquet turns out bright.
Any juicy fruit (photos of the bouquets from them are given in the article) require a careful attitude, otherwise they may come out juice ahead of time and ruin the appearance of the composition.
Interesting and festive look apples in white and black chocolate, painted with glaze, and sprinkled with nuts. This is just a real work of art. Outwardly, they look like fabulous golden apples. They are prepared according to the same principle as glazed strawberries.
You can also make apple slices in chocolate (light and dark). They can be presented as candies in a box, or can be strung on skewers and decorate the composition with them.
Apple leaves
Having juicy fruits (photo is given in the article), you can safely proceed to create a bouquet. A wonderful option may be a bouquet of apple leaves. For its manufacture, multi-colored apples will be needed. They should be cut into two parts, core and cut into slices. Each plate is a petal, the edges of which must be made curly.
Then each piece of apple is planted on a skewer, dipped in lemon water. It makes sense to hold pieces of fruit in wine or cognac to add taste and a special aroma. To fix the color, apple petals are dipped in a solution of gelatin with acidity, and allowed to freeze in a cold place. The solution is prepared from water, gelatin, lemon juice, dry wine or brandy. After twenty minutes, you can repeat the process of dipping the slices in the jelly mixture, and again send the juicy fruit to cool. Having done this procedure several times, you will get beautiful jelly petals for a fruit bouquet.
Bouquets of fruits and vegetables
Not only is a juicy fruit suitable for creating wonderful compositions, the pulp of vegetables can also be used. Figurines carved from pumpkins, colorful peppers, cucumbers and tomatoes look wonderful in bouquets. In general, you can combine fruits with vegetables and berries, decorating with beautiful leaves of fresh salads, mint, herbs and flowers.
Grape bouquet
When wondering what kind of fruit is juicy and well suited for a bouquet, do not forget about grapes. It is very suitable for such purposes. It can be used both as separate elements for composition and to create bouquets exclusively from grapes alone. To do this, stock up with multi-colored grapes. We put each grape on a skewer and decorate with the help of cornet sugar icing or liquid chocolate. A syringe must first be injected into each berry a couple of drops of brandy syrup. This will give your bouquet an unforgettable sophisticated taste. All skewers are placed in a tall glass. The bouquet can be decorated with chocolates.
Children's creativity
What fruit bouquets are good for is that children can be involved in their creation. Too many kids and schoolchildren may like this kind of creativity. Moreover, a bouquet made independently can be presented to mom or grandmother for a birthday or March 8th. Offer your child such an entertaining lesson. And believe me, this will captivate your child for a long time, and perhaps even turn into a new hobby. Firstly, all the materials the child will work with are tasty and healthy, and secondly, it’s so interesting to create something with your own pens. In addition, children's fantasies are much brighter and bolder than that of an adult person, and therefore a child can offer brilliant new ideas for creating an unforgettable composition. Well, there’s no need to talk about the use of chocolate for decoration. Well, what a child will miss such a sweet holiday!
By the way, the creation of a festive bouquet can be offered to children at a large children's holiday as entertainment. In the process, children will be able to enjoy healthy fruits, and, of course, chocolate with cookies. For them it will be not only entertaining, but also interesting. In addition, such master classes are educational in nature. So try to use our idea in order to entertain children and at the same time teach them something new and useful. Very often, babies are biased towards certain fruits and vegetables, not wanting to eat them. And then there will be an opportunity to take a fresh look at fruits and berries. Perhaps this will change the mind of the child. After all, no one can resist chocolate strawberries and apples.
Instead of an afterword
A fruit bouquet is an exquisite and luxurious gift, all the more delicious and healthy. Please your relatives and friends with such an unusual composition. Believe me, they will appreciate your efforts, because a handmade gift made with love is much more valuable than a purchase.