How to Make 9 Easy Strawberry Garnishes

          The strawberry heart is so impressive garnish for someone special for Valentine’s Day or just make a cute dessert. In the photo, I served for breakfast cottage cheese with strawberries and blueberries. I had a large strawberry and tried to make a heart. I was so surprised by how easy and impressive it comes out. We can use this strawberry technique for other desserts as well. For example, dessert strawberry with whipped cream is great for this strawberry garnish idea too. The limit is our fantasy!

What we need:

1. Strawberry
2. Paring knife
3. Cutting board

       To choose the right strawberry is very important. The strawberry much to be a normal shape with even sides. The best is a large size of berry personally for me because small size is hard to shape and for a smaller size, I have much more easy next technique on the page. We need to choose a bright red strawberry preferably without any white or pink areas. In the photo, I used with pink spots strawberry and it is pretty but with red strawberry will be much more impressive!

Technique How To Make a Heart Out Of Strawberry:

1. Cut a strawberry into equal 2 pieces and each slice as thin as possible.

2. Spread each strawberry half as shown in the photo. The bottom of the strawberry heart is coming out so easy! The top round with both hands in same time. Try stay as close as possible to center and when the heart is ready to spread it wider. This way you don’t clean around the heart much and juices stay in the center where are berries go.

3. The bottom of the strawberry heart is coming out so easy! The top round with both hands in same time and adjust as you like.

        To make a heart out of a strawberry we need a certain shape of strawberries. The strawberry should look like a heart shape on the bottom and the best is red inside. It very simple, just make the simple cut at an angle like on the picture and cut in the middle, we have 2 hearts ready. Or leave it as is and use it as decor for a glass of a drink. If make more slices, we have a few hearts and can use them in beverages. This method is good to decorate for Valentine’s day or just impress loved ones. Desserts, Jello, pastry, beverages, and more. Cover a strawberry heart with chocolate and heart-shaped candy is ready.

     On the photo below, I decorated with strawberry heart fruits made in the shape of small balls and serve with a yummy chocolate spoon. To make these cute balls I used garnish tool a melon baller.

Read more ⇒ How To Use Melon Baller 13 Ideas With Photos

If you looking for hearts ideas from different food, check out this page →  11 Ideas How To Make Heart Shaped Food Ideas

        The strawberry rose garnish technique I learned many years ago from one Russian chef. It is one more way how to cut a strawberry fancy to garnish desserts. This strawberry garnish is so elegant, realistic, and very cute on any dessert.

        This technique can be used also to make a rose from vegetables and other fruits. I have step by step technique on a lemon example and a video with an example on orange. I used rose from strawberry to decorate desserts, ice cream, cheesecake or just simply decorate small fruit plates.

Technique:

  1. Cut a strawberry into halves.

  2. Slice strawberry half into thin slices like on the photo. The slices will be petals for our strawberry rose.

  3. Spread the strawberry slices like on the photo.

  4. Roll the strawberry slices into a spiral.

  5. 4 large slices of strawberry place under each other on dessert.

The base of the strawberry flower I made from 4 slices from another half of the strawberry.

  6. Place strawberry rolled into a spiral on the center of the 4 petals of the strawberry rose.

The strawberry mushroom garnishes are cute on desserts for kids, to decorate fruit platters or just sweet garnish. The mushrooms make your kids and family eat more fruits! My husband doesn’t eat kiwi. At least I thought so for many years. I was practicing to make my strawberry mushrooms and served it with a cottage cheese for my husband. I don’t want to remove kiwi because the mushrooms were so cute. He ate my mushrooms and of course, kiwi!

We can make raspberries mushrooms as well. They are so cute too!

Look a few more ideas raspberry garnish ideas → 4 Cute Raspberry Garnish Ideas

Strawberry

Apple

Kiwi

Fruit corer 0.5 inch

*Corer is a very useful tool if you like to garnish food!

Read more about corers →  Uses of Vegetable Corer in My Kitchen

Read more ⇒ Uses of Vegetable Corer in My Kitchen

1. Make a stem for strawberry mushroom from apple with the corer.

2. Make an opening in strawberry with the corer.

3. Attach the stem to strawberry and our cute garnish is ready!

⇓ For more stability, we can make openings in kiwi too (Raspberry mushrooms) ⇓

             Fanning a strawberry for garnish is a good way to increase the visual impact of the strawberry on dessert. The most common strawberry garnish we can see at restaurants is fan out of a strawberry because of the simplicity of the technique. A fan is a great strawberry garnish on glass if we attach it to a skewer on the bottom of the berry. Fanning a strawberry technique is an easy and impressive strawberry garnish for many drinks. Some people like to leave the hull attached, some remove it. I like to remove the strawberry leafy part most of the time and replace it with mint leaves. I have mint available all year round in my mini garden. Mint leaves pleasant and edible garnish by itself and makes a great parring with strawberry.

           The fanning a strawberry technique is so easy! Remove the leaves from the strawberry or leave on, it is up to you. Make vertical cuts, but not all way through. Spread it and you have a beautiful fan to decorate desserts, pastries, and beverages. You can use skewers to control the deepness of the cuts for convenience.

 Strawberry cut into flower easiest way is just make a zig-zag cut with handmade garnish tool from a can lid. Good to garnish desserts and glass with a beverage. Easy jello decor, fruit salad, dessert or freeze in ice and it will be simple but cute ice cubes for a beverage.

We can cut the flower with a small paring knife or make very simple handmade disposable garnish tool (video).

⇓ Check out how to make handmade garnish tool super easy ⇓

⇒ How to make handmade garnish tool⇐

           Here is another technique to make a strawberry flower. I like very much the technique to make tomato or orange flowers, but sometimes I make from strawberry too. The best take large strawberry to make this flower. It can be used to decorate desserts, pastries, and jello.

⇒Link to How to make a rose from orange peel⇐

       Strawberry spiral is a very interesting garnish and not a common idea to decorate desserts or beverages. It is a very impressive garnish technique to cut strawberries for a drink. We need a skewer to hold strawberries and a knife. Not easy to make a spiral from strawberry without skewer unless you are a chef with excellent knife skills. However, with a skewer, it is so simple way to make this garnish out of strawberry! Check out my video below.

Check out the spiral out of strawberry technique with step by step photos here ⇒ 7 Fun And Easy Margarita Cocktail Garnish Techniques

The spiral on the milkshake glass looks like a ribbon to me, so cute!

      So cute strawberry garnish idea for kid’s dessert! We need a garnishing tool call a melon baller if you don’t have one, you can use some measuring spoons instead. I used papaya to make these strawberry faces but we can make faces from so many different fruits. The eyes I draw with an edible marker but we can use edible seeds instead. To make the smiley mouth we can make with a spoon, just press it in.

Check out more details on how I make the strawberry faces with step by step photos photos ⇒ How To Use Melon Baller 13 Ideas With Photos

I like the twists strawberry garnish because just from one berry we can garnish a few desserts. Super easy and very nice decor on desserts!