A bunch of strawberries: rules and tips for making

It is very pleasant to receive flowers as a gift, but it is not original, but a strawberry bouquet will surprise and be remembered for a long time. Such a gift is beautiful for any celebration. He will emphasize the fantasy, attentiveness, deep respect of the donor.

Strawberry is one of the most appetizing and favorite berries. It was mentioned in its treatises by the Egyptians, the Romans, and the Greeks several centuries before our era. The ancient Romans considered its fruits a symbol of love for red color and a shape similar to a heart. Since the restaurant business began to actively develop, there was a need for a beautiful fruit cutting. So the art of carving appeared, and strawberry bouquets became one of its directions.

Strawberry bouquet has such positive moments as:

• beautiful and bright;
• unusual;
• aromatic and pleasant to taste;
• romantic
• is useful.

Making a strawberry bouquet on your own is a snap. Children can be involved in the process, they will be interested. A masterpiece is born literally before our eyes. To make the bouquet perfect, you need to prepare for work responsibly: find the right strawberry fruit, collect the necessary tools.

In addition to the usual knife, Thai is used to create fruit patterns. For the base of the bouquet take a floral sponge, foam, napkin or plastic dough. As an attachment using wooden skewers, toothpicks. The composition can be issued in gift paper.

From the choice of strawberries will depend on the triumph or failure of the fruit bouquet. Fruits pick up dry low-value varieties, they must be dense, symmetrical, of the same size. Then the berries are washed and dried. Sometimes the bouquet requires green stems, so do not immediately tear them off.

Fruit bouquets can be stored for some time, knowing little tricks and observing the temperature, but it is better to give a fresh composition, which means it should be made before handing it to the hero of the day or serving it to the table.

There are different ways to make fruit bouquets. They are presented in vases, baskets, boxes, decorated paper. Often, the methods of preparation of the composition depend on the form of the package. Strawberry bouquets are often decorated with different types of icing. Berries, decorated with glossy sugar fudge, black or white chocolate, look very appetizing. Fruits last longer in the glaze, they will reach the addressee fresh. It is worth considering the first glaze recipes.

• Chocolate icing. A bar of any chocolate must be melted in a water bath, add 40 g of butter or a little milk. The presence of butter will give the glaze a shiny look, but it will harden a little longer. Milk increases the viscosity of chocolate faster and makes it less calorie, which is also not bad.
• Colored glaze. For this kind of fudge you will need white chocolate. Having melted a tile in a water bath, it should be divided into two parts. In one half, enter the milk, diluted with red food dye. The result will be a beautiful pink icing. Prepared berries dipped in color or white fudge. Top dessert can be decorated with any confectionery dressing. Then the strawberries are placed for 10 minutes in the freezer to freeze the glaze.
• Icing. This is a traditional type of fudge, it is easy to prepare. Four Art. spoons of water are thoroughly mixed with a glass of powdered sugar. The viscosity is adjusted by adding water or sugar. Then the mixture is heated on fire with constant stirring. The temperature of the glaze should be about +40 degrees. Sugar fudge can be made more colorful and more appetizing if you add dyes and flavors to it.

Strawberry composition can be prepared with your own hands, you just need to follow the step by step instructions. To create a beautiful bouquet you will need the following components:

• 20–25 pieces of ideal strawberry fruit;
• 20–25 rose buds, the size of a strawberry;
• wooden skewers;
• sprigs of plants;
• gift paper;
• decorative tape.

The following steps are carried out in stages:

• each berry should be carefully strung on the skewer to the middle;
• Next, set the skewers with strawberries in a circle, forming a symmetrical bouquet;
• rosebuds are gradually introduced, and green sprigs are set on top;
• when the composition is assembled, it should be securely fixed, decorated with decorative paper and beautiful ribbon.

To create a composition, you should pick up and rinse a large dense berry, dry with a paper towel. Melt a chocolate bar in a water bath. To the berries more reliably held on skewers, their tips should be dipped in melted chocolate. Then gently string the strawberries and put them in the freezer for a few minutes. Having removed the berries from the fridge on skewers, you should carefully dip them in chocolate (white, black or colored).

You can decorate with any confectionery dressing and send it back to the fridge. When the chocolate hardens, it is necessary to form a beautiful bouquet, setting skewers on the basis of plastic dough (kneaded with plenty of salt). Strengthen the construction of the wire. The created bouquet is packed in Kraft paper and decorated with ribbon. In such a composition, you can add green twigs or flower buds.

This is the most original and delicious gift for their beloved halves. Such resourcefulness, sophistication and attention will not leave anyone indifferent. To create a strawberry heart will need the following components:

• large strawberry fruit;
• compact rosebuds;
• lettuce leaves;
• floral sponge;
• wooden skewers;
• wire;
• tapes.

The cooking process includes the following steps:

• soak a sponge in the form of a heart into water - such an oasis will fix the roses and prolong their freshness period;
• the stems must be pruned so that they can enter until the middle of the sponge;
• half of the heart tightly put roses;
• then drape the sides of the composition with lettuce leaves and secure them with pins; fix all this with wire and decorate with tape;
• in the second half of the heart, insert rows of skewers into an oasis in even rows and string strawberries on each of them.

To create a composition of sweets it is necessary to prepare strong, large strawberries and round chocolate candies. Berries and sweets strung on skewers. In the center of the composition there will be skewers with candies, they should be fixed with scotch tape. On the outer circle to lay out and secure the strawberries. Wrap a bunch of wrap with a film, decorate with mint leaves, pack in gift paper.

Strawberry goes well with any fruit and berries. It is easily combined with strawberries, garden blackberries, cloudberries. Fruit composition can be arranged in a basket or a round box (sold in flower shops). At the bottom of the container should be laid out foam, wrapped with film. On it to form the basis - slices of any suitable fruit (pineapple rings, apples, and others).

The base must be pierced with skewers and toothpicks, creating the shape of a cone.To do this, large skewers set in the center of the composition, the subsequent rows a little “sink”, then move on to shorter toothpicks. Strawberries should be strung on prepared fixings. You can make a small composition in a circle, on the bottom of which you can put half an apple or an orange as a base. As you can see, the art of carving can be mastered in the home, it is enough to have imagination and hard work.

You will learn more about how to make a bouquet of strawberries with your own hands from the following video.

To cover the berries use white, milk, color and dark black chocolate. Strawberry looks good in sugar fudge. The process of creating a strawberry dessert is quite simple. It is necessary to melt a bar of chocolate to a volatile state. Washed, dried strawberries put on wooden skewers and fully dipped in the prepared glaze. When the fudge hardens, the berry can once again be dipped in chocolate of a different color. Get a beautiful double-layer dessert.

Using kornetik, drawing with white fudge is applied on frozen black chocolate. Color can be changed to the opposite. Good looking patterns of colored glaze. Berries peculiar look in different toppings (ground nuts, coconut, cocoa). Strawberries on a skewer, dipped in chocolate, still semi-soaked, should be carefully dipped in the topping and give it time to dry. To achieve a piquant flavor, the berries on skewers can be held in cognac for 10 minutes, then sprinkled with powdered sugar and dipped in soft chocolate.

For a small composition you will need about a dozen large beautiful strawberries, leaves of plants, skewers, wire, floral sponge, Kraft paper. It is necessary to prepare a sponge to the size of the bouquet, cut off the extra parts with a knife. It will serve as the basis for strawberries on skewers. But one half of the skewers fasten the leaves of flowers with the help of a wire and string berries. The second half of strawberry strung on loose skewers. The composition is beautifully set and secured on the sponge.

Skewers with leaves should be built along the contour of the bouquet. The finished composition wrapped in Kraft paper, decorate with ribbon.

To make strawberry bouquets help little tricks.

• To better get strawberries in chocolate, you need to prepare a container with ice water. Chocolate should be melted in a water bath, but in any case not to overheat. First, lower the berry into the melted chocolate, and then dip it in cold water for 20 seconds. Moisture can be blotted with a towel.
• The berries will last longer if you dip them in a solution of gelatin. To do this, gelatin must be instilled in cold water until swelling, then reheat in a water bath and add lemon juice. Strawberries should be dipped in the cooled, but not “seized” solution.
• In addition to gelatin, the berry lasts longer in any fudge (sugar, chocolate). Chocolate-covered strawberries can be decorated with patterns of colored glaze, sprinkled with nuts, coconut chips.
• Strawberries on a skewer will hold on tight if supported with grapes from below. To make the berry bouquet look even more unusual, you can build it in a hat box, having built a beautiful strawberry slide.

Strawberry bouquets collected millions and many of them do not resemble each other. Some companies produce their compositions and give them names. But in most cases, bouquets are born spontaneously, anyone can realize any creative imagination. Beautiful names for their products gives the company Berry Bouquet.

• Fruit bouquet with the charming name "Love Story" designed for the beloved halves, it helps to express the depth of the romantic feeling. Dessert, the volume of 25x30 cm is designed for two lovers.Strawberries, grapes and pineapple will provide an enthusiastic harmony of taste.

• Composition "Strawberry Night" contains selected berries in the form of hearts, some of which are glazed with dark bitter chocolate. The bouquet is complemented by a dark shiny blackberry. A wonderful mysterious night with strawberry-chocolate taste scares and attracts with its magnificence.

• Bouquet "Chocolate happiness" really make his owner happy. Strawberries in milk chocolate with the addition of grated almonds and hazelnuts allow you to enjoy every bite of an unusual dessert.

• Composition "Illusion" consists of 38 selected berries. Milk chocolate and sugar powder complements the unforgettable strawberry flavor.

• Five kilogram bouquet "Big love" able to feed not only newlyweds, but also all those who wish, to touch this great all-encompassing feeling. Strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, blueberries - this is truly a whole berry bouquet. White, milk chocolate and coconut chips complete the complete harmony of happiness.

• Composition "Raspberry Paradise" surprises with the balanced taste of strawberry, raspberry and white chocolate. Spicy bouquet adds a pleasant mint notes.

Everyone wants to get a gift of a gorgeous strawberry bouquet. If relatives do not know about our desires, you can make a chocolate-berry composition by yourself and surprise them with a sophisticated surprise.