How to decorate a table with fruit?

The originally decorated festive table is able to instantly cheer up, arouse the desire to quickly sit down for it, arouse brutal appetite. Incidentally, slicing fruits in this process does not play the last role. More precisely, one of the most important, as it is able to complement, emphasize, and add sophistication to the triumph. Mostly fruit slices are served with tea, coffee, alcoholic drinks, sometimes even as a separate dessert. This unusual art cutting of fruits is called carving. But to make it at home, it is not at all necessary to learn this art. It is enough to stock up on a large number of products, a sharp knife, beautiful plates, cookie cutters, toothpicks, skewers. And of course, the most successful ideas on how to decorate the table with fruits, which we will consider in this article, will come in handy.

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Preparing to create a fruit masterpiece

There are several requirements that it is recommended to adhere to when decorating the table with fruit at home. These include the following:

• Choose the fruits and berries that you will use to decorate the table, you should meticulously, carefully, slowly. Remember that the fruits lie on it for at least several hours, in addition, they must remain beautiful throughout this time. Therefore, choose products exclusively fresh, without damage, dents, any defects. Better if they are as elastic and dense as possible.
• A fruit plate should be prepared immediately before the celebration itself, otherwise it may become weathered and become less presentable externally.
• Be sure to prepare a lemon to sprinkle it with a cut.
• It is recommended to cut only 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, you immediately need to remove the fruits that give juice.

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Rules for decorating a festive table with sliced ​​fruits

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

1. Pears and apples should be stacked so that their flesh is as small as possible in the air, otherwise they will quickly darken. To prevent this, you can sprinkle them with lemon juice.
2. Watermelon with melon should be laid out together with the peel, only thin, even, small pieces. If possible, all bones should be removed.
3. Sliced ​​oranges, lemons, tangerines can be served in slices as well as slices. If you prefer the option with circles, then the peel must remain.
4. Mango and kiwi are first peeled, then only cut into thin plates. Kiwi should be thoroughly washed before cleaning. Since they do not darken from contact with air, they can decorate apples.
5. Small apricots and plums are usually served whole. Too large fruits are cut in half, put on a plate with the pulp to the bottom.
6. Grapes are served exclusively in clusters.It is better to give it a casual look, for example, to hang a part of a branch off a plate.
7. Cherries and cherries are placed on plates with twigs. Strawberries are also served with a ponytail.
8. The prickly skin is cut off from the pineapples, then the core is removed, they are cut into small plates in the form of a semicircle or columns.

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Ideas for a beautiful and original fruit serving

As we have already found out, the design of the holiday with fruits has a lot of nuances that relate mainly to the fruits themselves. Almost all holidays are attended by children who should not get their hands dirty with fruit juice, because as a result all clothes will inevitably get dirty. 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, and various baskets are used.

Canapes

The use of contrasting fruits or berries allows you to make spectacular canapes that will appeal to both adults and children. It is important to consider that the base of each mini-sandwich should be as firm as possible, you can use pieces of hard cheese or apples for this.

Important! Ideally combined with sweet fruit, blue cheese or salty cheeses.

Story feed

Such a serving involves the creation of original figures or paintings using pieces of fruit. You can make them:

• flat, sliced ​​on a plate;
• voluminous with skewers, but this process is more time-consuming.

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

Important! Using cookie cutters, you can cut funny figurines or faces from fruits. Children will like hedgehogs, peacocks, heroes of animated films, popular fairy tales.

Mini kebabs

It is convenient to use such a portioned option for serving fruit both at adults and at children's parties:

• To make the base, a fruit, such as pineapple, melon, large grapefruit or pear, is placed on a large plate or tray.
• For the kebabs themselves, you can use grapes, kiwi, bananas, peaches, apples, sliced ​​in portions or berries.
• Prepared fruits are strung on skewers, which are then stuck into the base.

Important! The main advantage of this cutting is the possibility of using both fresh and canned fruits. Such a serving looks good even without a base, the fruits are simply beautifully laid out, poured on top with condensed milk or melted chocolate. Skewers in combination with balls of ice cream look gorgeous.

Baking baskets

Table decoration with fruits can be done using special baskets that are pre-baked. You can fill them with fruit salad seasoned with whipped cream or yogurt. Extraordinary in such baskets looks fruit jelly. They are baked, as a rule, from shortbread or puff pastry.

Important! You can decorate the baskets with grated chocolate, chopped nuts or coconut. Fruits will be in perfect harmony with the ice cream, only then you will have to store them until served on the table in the freezer.

On the plate

A simpler slicing option is thin slices of kiwi, oranges, pears, apples, beautifully laid out in the form of interesting figures or patterns on a dish. Such holiday plates are additionally decorated with fresh flowers or mint leaves. Guests will be delighted with atypical cuts.

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

Fruit in fruit

Baskets can be made from oranges, watermelon, melon. They are filled with seasoned with honey, chopped fruit, poured on top of syrup or cream.

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

• The top of the fruit is cut off, then all the flesh is taken out.
• Cherries, cherries, strawberries, and grapes fit into the resulting depression.
• Apple baskets are usually sprinkled with cinnamon.

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What are the decorations for ready-made fruit slices?

You have already chosen how to beautifully serve the fruit on the table, made a cut, now it is time to decorate it beautifully. Best suited for this:

• Cinnamon.
• Powdered sugar.
• Natural flowers.
• Coconut flakes.
• Flower petals.
• Marmalade.
• Fresh mint leaves.
• Marshmallow.
• Nuts.
• Candied fruit.
• Eastern sweets.
• Cocoa, coffee.

What to give preference to?

• Cinnamon or powdered sugar is mainly powdered with slices to give them an accent of freshness or to mask the flesh darkened in the air.
• Marshmallow is appropriate to use to decorate strawberries or melons, while they are put on skewers.
• Mint leaves or fresh flowers are inserted into fruit plates at your own discretion.
• To play on contrasts in slices of bananas or kiwi, it is better to use pomegranate grains.
• Oriental sweets, candied fruit, marmalade are laid out on a dish in a chaotic manner to create colorful shades.
• Lemon slices sprinkled with coffee go well with alcoholic beverages.

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Now you know how to beautifully arrange fruit on the festive table with the use of all kinds of fruits, berries, additional decor, powders, baskets. Fortunately, modern supermarkets are crowded with lots of berries and fruits, so nothing will stop you from translating your plans into reality.