- Dessert
Garnishes
Berries- Blueberry
Syrup
- Candy
crumbles
- Caramel
syrup
- chocolate
curls
- Chocolate
forms
- Chocolate
Leaves
- Chocolate sauce
- Chocolate
Shavings
- Cocoa
- Coconut:
shredded or cut with potato peeler
(lightly toast in oven until browned
for different look/taste)
- Course ground
sugar
- Crumbled cookies
or cake crumbs
- Crystalized
ginger
- Dried
fruit
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- Edible flowers:
Violets, Nasturtiums, Roses, Marigolds,
Squash blossoms, Lavender
- Fruit slices
(sprinkle with lemon juice)
- Kiwi
- Lemon Rind
- Lemon
sauce
- Maple
syrup
- Maraschino
cherries
- Melon
balls
- Mint
leaves
- Nuts
- Peanut Butter
sauce
- Pineapple:
Slices, wedges, whole...
- Pomegranate
seeds (can freeze)
- Powdered
sugar
- Star
fruit
- Strawberry:
whole or slices almost through to the
stem and fan out..
- Wheat
germ
- White
chocolate
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- Put a sauce
in squeeze bottle and decorate:
Fancy or lines or squiggles, or
drops.....
Run a fork through the sauce...
Walk through a grocery store...
What looks fun? Different fruits?
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Pie crust cut
outs
Make an unsweetened
pie dough
Roll flat.
Use a cookie cutter or pizza cutter to cut
shapes
Place on cookie sheet and bake until
lightly browned. 450 around 8 minutes
(Sprinkle tops with sugar, sugar cinnamon,
cocoa...)
Do the same with sugar
cookie dough
for sweeter dessert garnish
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- fried
Apple rings
- 2 apples core
and cut circles
- melt:
- 2 T
margarine
- 2 T
sugar
- 1 T lemon juice
(opt)
- cook low til
brown both sides 10-15
For red apple
rings add red food coloring
or for red cinnamon apple rings add
1/2 cup red hot cinnamon candies to the
margarine and melt.
Omit sugar.
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- Add something
contrasting to the recipe:
A few cranberries to an apple pie...
Berries to a pudding...
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Vegan
Dessert Garnish TIPS
Just a touch of contrast... a
different color or different texture adds
so much.
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