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How to Make 9 Easy Strawberry Garnishes
My collection of strawberries garnishes ideas that are easy to make and no art skills are needed. However, some garnishes need practice before making it to guests. Practice and make sure, you know how to make flowers or hearts from strawberries. Strawberry garnishes are so good to decorate food for kids! The best companion for strawberry garnish is green mint, in my opinion, because it resembles strawberry leaves and makes a great pairing with a strawberry. Serving food attractively takes sometimes no time but the little touch will be so noticeable and it reflects our love for our family and friends. Check out the techniques on the page! I am sure, you will find interesting techniques on how to make attractive garnish out of a strawberry!
Strawberry garnishes on the page:
- Strawberry slices in the shape of the heart (video)
- Strawberry in the shape of the heart (very easy)
- Strawberry in the shape of the rose
- How to make a strawberry and apple mushrooms garnish (video)
- Fanning a strawberry (very easy)
- A simple strawberry flower.
- Strawberry rose from a peel.
- Strawberry spiral (video).
- Cute faces from a strawberry (fun garnish for kids)
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1. Heart Strawberry Garnish Idea
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!
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What we need:
- Strawberry
- Paring knife
- 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!
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Technique How To Make a Heart Out Of Strawberry:
- 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.
So impressive presentation! I garnish cottage cheese for breakfast in the photo below.
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Video Heart Shaped Strawberry For Simple Romantic Dessert
2. How To Make A Heart Out Of A Strawberry
A simple way to decorate the dessert with a touch of love is to add fresh heart-shaped strawberries. No time to make the heart and a great surprise for someone special. The direction is so simple to make this adorable edible art!
*In the photo above, I decorated it with strawberry heart fruits made in the shape of small balls and served with a yummy chocolate spoon. To make these cute balls I used a garnish tool a melon baller.
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Direction How To Make A Heart Out Of A Strawberry
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 is 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 for decorating desserts for Valentine’s Day or just to impress loved ones. Desserts, Jello, pastry, beverages, and more. Cover a strawberry heart with chocolate and the heart-shaped candy is ready.
Hearts are the perfect strawberry garnish for cake. I just added a few leaves of mint to the hearts and my cake looks so good!
In the photo below I decorated with strawberry hearts and blueberries crapes for breakfast. The sauce is condensed milk.
Crapes is one of the most desirable breakfasts for my family!
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3. How To Make Strawberry Rose Garnish
Rose from Strawberry
The technique of how to make a strawberry rose garnish I learned many years ago from a Russian chef. It is one more way how to cut a strawberry fancy to garnish desserts. The rose 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 roses from strawberries to decorate desserts, ice cream, cheesecake or just simply decorate small fruit plates.
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Technique How To Make a Rose From a Strawberry
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 rose is the perfect strawberry garnish for cheesecake!
Rose from Strawberry
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Strawberry Mushroom Garnish
4. Strawberry Mushroom Kids Dessert Garnish
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
We need:
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
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- 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) ⇓
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5. How To Fan A Strawberry For Garnish
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.
6. Simple Strawberry Flower Garnish
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).
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7. Flower from Strawberry Peel
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 them from a strawberry too. The best way to make this flower is to take a large strawberry. It can be used to decorate desserts, pastries, and jello.
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8. How to Cut Strawberry for Garnish in Spiral
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.
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Video How to Cut Strawberry for Garnish in Spiral
The spiral on the milkshake glass looks like a ribbon to me, so cute!
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9. Cute Faces From Strawberry
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.
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10. Strawberry Twist Garnish
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!
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This was very helpful.
Thank you, Peter! I really appreciate your comment!