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2 Fun Pear Garnish Ideas For Desserts, Cheese And Fruit Platters

Photo Hedgehog From Pear With Cheese

Pear garnish can be a cute and fun decoration for different events. For example, pear can be an appropriate decor for cheese presentation along with other fruits and honey, fruit platters, fruit tiers and much more. I will share 2 techniques on the page on how to make hedgehog and pear bird garnish. Hedgehog and bird from pear add a fun and decorative touch to the table. Both techniques are easy and not time-consuming to make. However, pears can darken after we cut it and for this reason pear is not a common garnish on party tables. I can say the best way to make pear garnish is to cut just when ready to serve. Can we slow down the darkening process and make in-advance pear garnishes? Yes.

How Do We Keep Pears From Turning Brown?

To keep pears from turning brown most common method to coat cut area with lemon or lime juice. For the best result, cover pear garnish with food plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator.

Another method more complicated and time consuming but still exist in the cooking world, we can cover the fruit with clear lemon jello to prevent darkening. Make jello and cool off it, so it still liquid but not hot. Cover the pear with jello and place in refregerator until jello set.

I saw on the Instagram some catering company decorated fruit platters with pear hedgehogs and looks so cute. I asked the chef what they do to prevent darkening pear and the answer was easy. They coat pears hedgehog with lemon juice before decorating it.

*On the bottom of the technique you can see examples of pear hedgehogs after 2 hours and 3 hours. Of course, different pears can be react differently, I used most common green ones for my test.

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1. How To Make Cute Bird From Pear For Kids Fruit Platter

We can make a cute and simple pear garnish idea in the shape of a bird. I was looking at a bird from pear in one of my old garnish books and liked the idea of making a bird from a pear because cute and easy. The eyes are made from clove spice and the beak is from carrot in the book. Looks cute but for my birds to make eyes and beak I like to use different ingredients. The reason, small seeds are edible and making beek my way is much easier. It comes out cute too as you can see in my photos. It is so easy to make garnish from pear for kids’ parties.

The pear bird can be used to decorate fruit platters for kids, cheese boards, fruit towers, or as decoration on a party table as is. We can use this pear decor for most kids’ party themes because birds complement any decor, in my opinion. To make a bird takes a couple of minutes and we don’t need any carving skills to make it.

I recommend using only edible eyes and beaks, especially if you serve for kids. I saw online some people using eyes made from plastic, very cute but I strongly suggest, use edible versions maybe not so realistic but safe. Kids like to try everything cute.

Photo Bird from pear garnish

We Need

Pear
Black sesame seeds
Knife
Lemon or lime juice to prevent discoloration.

How To Make Bird From Pear

Cut the bottom off the pear for stability on the plate.

Photo Bird from pear 1

2. I cut from the bottom a small rectangle from pear skin. Coat with lemon or lime juice.

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3. I make 2 small V shaped cuts out like on the photo to make wings for my bird and just before serving my pear garnish moved slightly out.

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4. To make a small cut with a paring knife and insert folded in half triengle from pear skin. this way the beak will be look good from all views.

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5. I poked 2 small wholes with a toothpick where I want to be the bird eyes. In openings I inserted sesame seeds and my eyes are ready.

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The bird from pear is so cute pear garnish idea!

Photo Bird Form Pear humor

A Few More Ideas To Make Pear Bird’s Eyes And Beaks

The bird’s eyes and beaks we can make so different ways and here are a few examples! I was making a video about this technique and bought a few pears to make birds. Some birds you see, some I left on my memory stick… I felt like if I did not stop making birds with different beaks and eyes, I never finish my video! So many variations and ideas I had!

For my bird in the photo below, I made a beak with the almond and eyes made out of flax seeds.

The bird below has a pumpkin seed beak. We can also make a beak from sunflower seeds as well.

This cute bird has beak made out of kiwi skin and eyes flax seeds.

This bird looks like a duck and has beak made out of apricot skin and eyes I drow with food marker.

My red bird has a beak from its peel and eyes made out of sunflower seeds.

*If we have red and green pears, we can make for green bird beak and wings from red pear peel and use green for a red pear. To make wings the same size we can use the angle garnish tool to cut out wings. If you don’t have one, make it from a can lid. Details here → How to Make Easy Channel Knife Substitute

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2. How To Make Pear Hedgehog For Fruit Or Cheese Platter

Pear hedgehog is creative garnish idea for fun and very entertaining fruit platter, cheese platter or just as snack as is. This pear grape hedgehog makes everyone smile when our guests see it on the table. This super cute garnish easily can be made from any kind pear. I used on my photos green pears but dark pear or red pear looks great too. On the top needles of pear hedgehog, we can place additional decorations for more realistic effect. For example, I made the mushroom from strawberry and steam of the mushroom from the bottom of the same pear. The butterfly I made with small cookie cutter from orange zest. We don’t have to make anything to place on the needles, it can be simplest small strawberry or other small berries or fruits as well. Another option, if you have available edible flowers are cute decor too on our cute pear hedgehog. Some candies can be placed on the top too and the limit is only our imagination!

Read more how to make the strawberry mushroom garnish → 9 Easy Strawberry Garnish Ideas

We Need

Pear
Grapes
Toothpicks
Knife
Black sesam seeds
Lemon or lime juice to prevent discoloration.

How To Make Pear Grape Hedgehog

Select pear for hedgehog with a stem because we are going to attached a hedgehog nose on it.

* I use stem because it is a safe way to attached a nose. Steam is soft and actually can be expected. I saw online some people use small piece of toothpick to attached nose. I agree, a small chance anybody is going to eat the pear. However, stay on the safe side and don’t use a piece of toothpick!

If you have a suggestion to attache a nose other ways, please leave in comments below.

Photo Pear grape hedgehog step 1

2. Peel the front part of the pear and shape hedgehog nose.

3. Cut the bottom for stability a hedgehog on the plate.

4. Stick grapes on a wooden picks and pin them into the pear.

5. I make small openings for eyes with a toothpick and place sesame seeds inside. The nose I make from blueberry and placed on a steam.

*Make the nose from different berry or fruit than on the top of hedgehog. I tried to make the nose from same grape, looks not impressive as if you use different color grapes for example.

*If using premade eyes, choose edible options. For example, for couple dollars we can find “Candy Eyeballs”. They can be different quality, so try them out in advance.

So cute and fun garnish idea for kids party or other events!

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The First Pear Hedgehog After 2 Hours

I left my pears for 2 hours and 3 hours at room temperature and very satisfied with the result! On the first fruit, I used lemon juice to coat it. As you can see on the first photo, hedgehog I left at room temperature and didn’t cover with a plastic wrap. I noticed slightly discoloration on the skin and looks still presentable. If we cover with a plastic wrap and leave at refregerator, the result will be much better!

The Second Pear Hedgehog After 3 Hours

The hedgehog on cheese platter I coat with lime juice and cover with plastic wrap on the top. The platter was at room temperature for 3 hours. Of course, refrigerator better, but I was curious how will be look at room temperature. My hedgehog looks so good after 3 hours! Just small discoloration on the edge of skin.

In conclusion, I can say pears what I used great to make hedgehogs in advance for party. Just coat with lime and lemon juice, cover with plastic wrap and if possible keep in cold environment as a refrigerator or cold room.

As always, before try new garnish ideas, practice to serve at least one time for your family. This way you never have surprises and stresses before an important event.

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