11 Ideas How To Use A Crinkle Cutter To Garnish Food

       Cute and simple, very easy to make and great food decoration for the Christmas party made with crinkle knife! Choose a crinkle knife with a zigzag blade, not wavy. I use my OXO tool. The Christmas tree will be so cute as you can see in the photos. We can decorate with cucumber Christmas trees individually on small appetizers or make just one tree in the center. For the best effect better serve on a darker background. For example, on smoked salmon. In the photos below, I served on rice crackers and my trees blend in. We can also serve vertically on a toothpick our cucumber Christmas tree garnish. If you have a wooden skewer with a star on the top, it works great too.

I already have 2 Christmas trees from cucumber, easy to make and fun. See it here → 13 Easy Cucumber Garnish Ideas With Many Photos And Videos

      We can serve our Christmas tree garnish flat or on a toothpick. Everything depends on your personal preferences. The technique is super simple and doesn’t need much time.

1. Cut a wavy circle with crinkle knife.

2. Cut on angle each side of the cucumber slice and our Christmas tree is ready to decorate any appetizer.

1. Make a wavy slice and place on a toothpick before making a tree.

Our premade cucumber Christmas tree almost impossible to thread on a toothpick. It is very fragile.

2. When wavy cucumber slice on a toothpick so easy to make cuts on sides.

3. The top of my tree I decorated with a star from carrot but we can make from cheddar cheese as well. Or even better, if you have skewers with a premade star or snowflake on a top.

The star I made with a cookie cutter from my cookie set. Read more ⇒ Cookie Cutters I Use to Make Garnishes

        With a crinkle knife, we can make a super easy Christmas tree to decorate the cake. I didn’t have much time to make decor and come up with this simple idea. I make this decor for my Christmas cake in 2021. Just one tip to make this decor work well. Make sure your trees are rigid enough. My trees were fine sometimes but when everybody was ready for desserts, my trees were standing not straight anymore. If I toasted them slightly in the toaster oven, my decor stay straight much longer.

     To make my Christmas tree I use one of the layers of my cake. I cut the segment and my Christmas tree is ready!

       Before placing trees on the cake, I make 3 holes with a knife in my cake. I sprinkle each tree with sugar powder and insert them into holes. The cake decor is ready and it took me to make my Christmas trees less than a couple of minutes.

    A crinkle knife we can use to cut cheese for cheese platters or appetizers instead of boring cubes. Great way to serve cheese as a snack for family and friends. We can make a small canape with cheese in this interesting shape and much much more. On the photo below, I decorated a cheese platter with hedgehog made out of pear and grapes. So cute and fun way to serve cheese for a kid’s party.

     I cut cheese for Thanksgiving cheese platter on the photo and decorated it with a cheese ball that looks like a turkey. So easy and fun idea for Thanksgiving Holiday table. Cheeses with different colors look so nice on the cheese platter with crackers and nuts.

     The easiest garnish to use is a crinkle knife to cut fruits for fruit platters of desserts. In the photo above, I used kiwi fancy cuts to garnish chocolate pudding for my husband. I very often use a crinkle knife to decorate ice cream too with other fruits. The kiwi slices give more visual interest to the dessert because zigzag design.

     We can make waffles garnish with crinkle knife and it is a very attractive garnish for so many dishes. Need little practice but it easy to make a few for a salad plate.

This design is so good to decorate canned vegetables, make potato waffles and much more. 

1. The first slice will be just slice. Turn cucumber ninety degrees or from A to B. Next slice make as close as possible to edge. The technique you can see it very clear in my video.

      I like to use crinkle knife to make salad fancy. No much effort! Just use instead chef knife this tool to make wedges from different vegetables. On the photo, I garnished my chicken salad with wavy cucumber wedges. Tiny change makes my salad immediately looks more interesting. You feel like a person who made this salad for you put more effort to make your meal than just slice vegetables. A really cool tool to cut vegetables for a salad!  

        For French fries potatoes, I like to use a wavy crinkle knife because it just slightly changes the shape of the potatoes. Actually, another name for crinkle cutter is french fries cutter.

      I make potato wedges with a crinkle knife and they immediately became fancy potato wedges. Takes the same time to make if we cut with a chef knife or crinkle knife but absolutely different effect. Works great for potatoes and sweet potatoes. Really, a great way to serve potatoes for Holidays. I use both shapes of blades of wavy knives for baked potato wedges.

      If we cut carrots and other vegetables for stew with crinkle knife instead of dicing, vegetables look so nice! I like to use for this purpose a wavy crinkle knife instead of a zigzag one. The wavy crinkle knife is my favorite for slicing vegetables for stews or soups.

        Butter pats cut with crinkle knife are so nice to serve on the breakfast table. Great with porridge, bread, toast, and much more! Just slice butter with a crinkle knife and butter ready to serve. We can make it in advance. Simple and cute way to serve butter.

*If butter frozen, warm up the knife with warm water for easy cutting.

          Crincle cutter is a great tool to cut carrot for the vegetable mix. So bright and nice addition!

      Watermelon pizza is a new trend these days on the Internet. Crinkle knife makes this watermelon dessert presentation more interesting and not casual. Really great little touch for presentation.