Fruit Carving Questions Answered

I have noticed that I seem to get basicly the same questions over and over again about fruit carving and vegetable arrangements, so I have decided to collect some questions and answer them. I figure if one person asks a question, there are more people wondering the same thing but will not ask. Please add your question to the comment section below and I will be answering all your questions soon!

Step By Step Vegetable Carving Video and Instructions

I am re-sharing links to two of my most popular vegetable how-to posts around the holidays, click the pictures below to go to the step by step how-to instructrutions for each project.

 

 

The first is a vegetable arrangement made to look like a christmas tree:

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a video on how to add some flair to any basic veggetable platter:

 

 

 

Holiday Fruit Carving Ideas - Snowman Fruit Bowl

It is the time of year we all start thinking about getting a little more creative and for most people the holidays are about food and family. So in that spirit I will be posting fruit carving and food art inspired projects for holiday gatherings all month! 

 

So here is my first holiday fruit carving idea which is a simple snowman fruit bowl made out of 3 mini watermelons of varying sizes. Watermelon balls for the eyes, melon wedge for the nose and blueberries for the mouth. Decorate your fruit bowl snowman with the normal snowman accessories like a top hat, a scarf and twig arms!

Pumpkin Carving Stencil - Pumpkin Tattoo

I thought this was pretty cool, pumpkin carving tattoo stencils! Instead of using paper patterns you actually stick the tattoo on the pumpkin and carve it that way. The set pictured here is from the artist Ray Villafane, who creates awesome 3D pumpkin carvings ... now he has made even the most basic pumpkin carving even easier! Click the photo to see more pumpkin tattoo patterns.

Carving 3D Faces Into Pumpkins

 

 

My first pumpkin of the year, I am practicing my 3D face carving skills!

Cat In The Hat Fruit Carving

This is a Cat In The Hat watermelon carving I did recently for a birthday party.

Also, thank you to everyone who voted for my Hello Kitty watermelon carving last month, I am happy to say I received 3rd place!

 

 

Watermelon Carving Contest - Vote For Me

My "Hello Kitty" watermelon carving is one of the finalists in the Watermelon.org carving contest! In a couple days they will be revealing 1st, 2nd & 3rd place in each category but now they are taking votes on the fan favorite with a grand prize of $500! I would appreciate it if you took a moment of your time and voted for my "Hello Kitty" carving here: http://www.whataboutwatermelon.com/index.php/watermelon-carving-contest/

 Thanks everyone!

Fruit Carving - Hello Kitty Watermelon Carving

Did this Hello Kitty watermelon carving over the weekend for my niece's 6th birthday party:

Learn To Carve Fruit Videos

If you want to learn to carve fruit, check out my YouTube videos for some easy beginner projects:

Learn To Carve Fruit Videos

The pictures below are a couple examples of the fruit carving video lessons you will find there.

Fruit Carving Video Lesson - Apple Leaf Plate Garnish

Just posted a video on Youtube on how to make these apple leaf plate garnishes, watch the Fruit Carving Apple Leaf Lesson. While you are there, don't forget to subscribe to my channel!

Mothers Day Fruit Carving

I hope everyone had a Happy Mothers Day!

Frozen Fruit Dessert Maker - Fruit Sorbet

I want one!!

You add frozen fruit into the machine and out comes a fruit sorbet that looks like soft serve ice cream. I think this is neat because I always have leftover fruit and this would be a new way to eat it!

Custom Fruit Carving and Edible Vegetable Arrangement

Custom vegetable platter with watermelon carvings and fruit "swimming pool"

Fruit and Vegetable Carving For Valentine's Day

Here are two video tutorials I did last year for Valentine's Day:

Chocolate Covered Strawberry Roses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J0TnOFyboU

Vegetable Garnishes For A Romantic Salad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT2LOjx5wgo

I hope they give you romantic dinner ideas!

Christmas Tree Vegetable Arrangement

This is a edible vegetable arrangement with a Christmas Tree centerpiece that I made for a clients Christmas party last year. Since the original post was after Christmas, I am re-posting this to share the idea with you at a more appropriate time! Please let me know what you think of the idea by commenting below and if anyone uses the idea, I would love to hear from you!

I cut the stem of the broccoli pieces at an angle.

I bought a craft store foam cone and left it in it's wrapper with a added layer of plastic wrap. The broccoli was secured in by toothpicks on the bottom row and then I just slide the next couple of rows in behind the last row, holding them in place.



For the garland I used carrot curls that I cut to size.

I secured the carrot garland with toothpicks, I left the ends of the toothpicks exposed and used the exposed ends to add my cherry tomatoes to the broccoli tree.

Simple cucumber flower with radish center.

I love using mini bell peppers as flowers, very colorful and simple. Just quarter the pepper down to the stem base taking care not to cut through and cut the membrane out that keeps the peppers shape.

Keep all your veggie flowers in ice cold water so they will start to open and curl like flowers.

Use green onion (just the dark green straw part) to make the wood skewer look more like flower stems.

Add a head of ice burg lettuce to the bottom of a bowl, planter or basket and push your vegetable flower skewers into the lettuce to hold them in place. I also used skewers to secure the broccoli Christmas tree into place into the head of lettuce.

I hope you liked this idea! Let me know what you think in the comment section!

Any questions? Please leave questions under comment section and I will answer them!