How to decorate a table with fruits?

The originally decorated festive table is able to instantly cheer up, cause a desire to quickly sit down for him, awaken a brutal appetite. By the way, cutting fruit in this process plays not the last role. More precisely - one of the most important, because it is able to complement, emphasize, give refinement to the celebration. Basically, fruit cuts are served for tea, coffee, alcoholic beverages, sometimes even as a separate dessert. It is called such an unusual artistic cutting fruit carving. But to do it at home, it is not necessary to learn this art. It is enough to stock up a large number of products, a sharp knife, beautiful plates, molds, toothpicks, skewers. And, of course, you will need the most successful ideas of how to decorate the table with fruits, which we will consider in this article.

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Preparing for the creation of a fruit masterpiece

There are several requirements that are recommended to adhere to by decorating the table with fruits at home. They include the following:

• Choose fruit and berries, which you will use to decorate the table, should be meticulously, carefully, slowly. Remember that the fruit will lie on it for at least a few hours, besides, they must remain beautiful throughout this time. Therefore, choose products that are exceptionally fresh, without damages, dents, any defects. It is better - if they are as elastic as possible, dense.
• A fruit plate should be prepared immediately before the celebration itself, otherwise - it can become obsolete, become less presentable externally.
• Be sure to prepare a lemon to sprinkle it with slicing.
• Cutting is recommended only with the sharpest knife, so that the slices are the same, even, thin.
• Before starting work, fruits should be washed as thoroughly as possible.
• In a separate container it is necessary to immediately remove fruits that give juice.

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Rules for decorating a festive table with fruit cuts

There are a number of rules concerning how to decorate fruit on a festive table. By the way, even the most famous restaurateurs use them in their work, which from time to time add something new to this list, guided by their own experience:

1. Pears and apples should be laid in such a way that their flesh is as low as possible in the air, inOtherwise, they will quickly darken. To prevent this, you can sprinkle them with lemon juice.
2. Watermelon with melon should be spread along with the skin, only thin, even, small pieces. All bones should be removed if possible.
3. Cut oranges, lemons, tangerines can be served both in circles and slices. If you prefer a version with circles, then you must always have a peel.
4. Mango and kiwi are first peeled, then only cut into thin plates. Kiwi must be thoroughly washed before cleaning. Since they do not darken from contact with the air, they can decorate apples.
5. Apricots and plums of small size, as a rule, are served whole. Too large fruit cut in half, put on the plate flesh to the bottom.
6. Grapes are served exclusively by bunches. It is better to give a careless look, for example, to hang a piece of a branch from the plate.
7. Cherries and cherries are put on plates with twigs. Strawberries are also served with a tail.
8. The prickly peel is cut from the pineapples, then the core is removed, they are cut into small plates in the form of a semicircle or pillars.

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Ideas for beautiful and original fruit delivery

As we have already found out, decorating a holiday with fruits has a lot of nuances, which concern basically the fruits themselves. Almost all the holidays there are children who can not get their hands dirty with fruit juice, because as a result of this, all clothing will inevitably be soiled. Therefore, considering the most popular ideas on how to decorate a fruit plate, it is better to give preference to those of them where horns, skewers, various baskets are used.

Canape

The use of contrasting fruits or berries allows you to make spectacular canapes that will please both adults and children. It is important to take into account that the base of each mini sandwich should be as hard as possible, use for this purpose pieces of hard cheese or apples.

Important! Ideally combined with sweet fruit, cheeses with mildew or salted.

Scene feed

This arrangement involves the creation of original figures or paintings using pieces of fruit. To make them it is possible:

• flat, having laid out slices on a plate;
• volumetric with the use of skewers, but this process is more laborious.

You can decorate a plate with a bright palm tree made of mandarins, kiwi, bananas.

Important! With the help of biscuit molds, you can cut out ridiculous figurines or fruit mugs. Children will love the hedgehogs, peacocks, heroes of animated films, popular fairy tales.

Mini-shashlikki

Such a platter version of fruit serving is convenient to use for both adults and children's holidays:

• To make a base, a fruit, such as pineapple, melon, large grapefruit or pear, is installed on a large plate or tray.
• For the shish kebabs you can use grapes, kiwi, bananas, peaches, apples, chopped slices or berries.
• Prepared fruits are threaded on skewers, which are then stuck in the base.

Important! The main advantage of this cutting is the possibility of using fresh and canned fruits at the same time. Looks good such a feed even without the basis, the fruit is simply beautifully laid out, poured on top of condensed milk or melted chocolate. Elegantly look skewers in combination with ice cream balls.

Baskets from baking

You can decorate the table with fruits using special baskets, which are pre-baked. Fill them with a fruit salad, dressed with whipped cream or yogurt. It is not unusual in such baskets looks fruit jelly. They are cooked, as a rule, from sand or puff pastry.

Important! Decorate baskets from above with grated chocolate, chopped nuts or coconut chips. Fruits will ideally be in harmony with the filling, only then have to store them before serving on the table in the freezer.

On a plate

A simpler version of cutting - thin slices of kiwi, oranges, pears, apples, beautifully laid out in the form of interesting figurines or patterns on a dish. Such festive plates are decorated additionally with fresh flowers or mint leaves. Guests will be delighted with atypical slicing.

Important! To make slices more convenient to take, you can stick in them colorful skewers.

Fruit in fruit

Basket can be made from oranges, watermelon, melon. They are filled with seasoned honey, sliced ​​fruit, topped with syrup or cream.

The appearance of various berries in a basket made of pineapple looks spectacular:

• The top of the fruit is cut off, then all the pulp gets.
• Cherry, cherry, strawberry, grapes are placed in the received groove.
• Apple baskets on top are sprinkled with cinnamon.

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What is the decoration of the finished fruit cuts?

You have already chosen how to serve fruit beautifully on the table, made a slicing, now it's time to decorate it beautifully. This is best suited for:

• Cinnamon.
• Powdered sugar.
• Natural flowers.
• Coconut shaving.
• Flower petals.
• Marmalade.
• Leaflets of fresh mint.
• Marshmallow.
• Nuts.
• Candied fruits. Oriental sweets.
• Cocoa, coffee.

What to give preference?

• Cinnamon or sugar powder is mostly powdered with slicing to give them an accent of freshness or to mask the dark flesh on the air.
• Marshmellow is appropriate to use for decorating strawberries or melons, while they are placed on skewers.
• Mint leaves or fresh flowers are inserted into fruit plates at personal discretion.
• To play on contrasts in sliced ​​bananas or kiwi, it is better to use garnet seeds.
• Oriental sweets, candied fruits, marmalade are laid out in a dish in a chaotic order to create colorful shades.
• With alcoholic beverages, lemon slices, sprinkled with coffee, are well combined.

Now you know how to beautifully decorate the fruit on a festive table with the use of various fruits, berries, additional decorations, powders, baskets. Fortunately, modern supermarkets are overcrowded with lots of berries and fruits, so you will not be hindered from putting it into reality.