How To Make Flower From Butter Garnish And Other Shapes

         The technique of how to make flowers from butter I learned from a chef at Russia many years ago. She was working at a restaurant and they use this technique to serve caviar sandwiches. The technique is easy but important to use the round shape knife. I used flowers made out of butter on porridge, on liver pate (see photo below), on stakes, on toast, baked potato, and much more. This garnish looks great on baked sweet potato, because of contrast, actually on every dish whatever you use butter we can use flower from butter. The beauty is melting fast on hot dishes but still noticeable and makes a pretty presentation. I also decorated green butter with the flower and you can see the technique in the video.

We need:

Knife round shape and refrigerated butter. The shape of the knife is important, it makes petals looks like on the photos.

Butter need to be good quality, so it is flexible enought. Than less milk solids in butter than better to make flowers.

1. Make curl from butter and it will be the center of your flower.

2. Create shorter curl with the shape like petal and attach to center.

3. Continue attaching petals around the center.

4. When you will be satisfied with your flower looks to turn it upside down and secure the bottom of the flower by the smoothing surface. So, your flowers are not going to loose petals when you store in a bag.

5. Place on cutting board and freeze it. Frozen flowers store in a plastic bag and keep in the freezer.

I decorate liver pate with other designs from butter but my favorite is butter flower on the top.

      We can decorate caviar sandwiches, tiny flowers look great on pink and black caviar. We can leave a few pearls of pink caviar and freeze it for the future garnish. So, when the time to serve fish you can decorate the center of your flower with pink caviar. For example, butter and mashed potato almost the same color, so flower much better looks with the pink center and caviar match seafood dishes perfectly (of course, if you eat caviar).

      I use flower-shaped butter to garnish herb (green) butter – a great addition to a holiday table.

Visit page to learn how to garnish herb butter with flower-shaped butter ⇒  Herb Butter Recipe with Parsley

       To make the hearts garnish with butter on caviar sandwiches, I used fondant (cake decor) cutouts in the shape of the heart. It is so convenient because it has pushed out features. The butter needs to be cold to make hearts with this tool. I tried to use a cookie-cutter but if butter softens and when we push it out the heart comes out not in perfect shape. For the sandwich, I make small waves designed on butter with a knife on the top, so it has a pattern for more visual interest.

    To make nice butter pats shapes on the photo I used my melon baller. This garnish tool also call a butterball maker. Super easy and nice for a fancy breakfast or for a Holiday table garnish from butter. We can make shaped butter in advance.

If you need to make perfectly shaped butter balls, just deep the melon baller bowl by the point it is deep completely into butter. Than start rotate and the ball from butter is ready. Very important to have a right melon baller, it must have a hole in the bowl for easy removal! A melon baller is very useful tool and inexpensive. Check my few tips →  How To Use Melon Baller 13 Ideas With Photos

       The simplest way to serve fancy-shaped butter is to cut it with a crinkle knife. This method use often at restaurants to serve butter for breakfast. So easy instead of knife use crinkle cutter. Don’t have one? Make one! I tried myself to make a crinkle cutter from a can lid and it comes out pretty good for simple uses like cut butter. More detail check on the page “How To Use Crinkle Cutter”

If you would like to make different shapes from butter for garnishing as options we can use candy, chocolate molds, or cookie cutters. Also, you can shape butter in molds from box candies. If using cookie cutters to shape butter, use very cold butter. We can garnish with shaped butter liver pate, spreads, to serve toast, and much more!

Read more ⇒ Cookie Cutters I Use to Make Garnishes