How to Make a Fresh Fruit Bouquet

[Music] hi everyone this is mary here from the more florist and bridal today i'm going to show you how to create an edible vase arrangement with fresh fruit what you're going to be needing is a container this here i have a ceramic container that's a little heavy set you can use a plastic or a tin pail if you want some soap floral foam so not wet foam but dry foam that we can cut and place into the container we're going to work with a cantaloupe today orange a kiwi about 30 to 40 grapes here i got some seedless black grapes here and about 10 to 12 strawberries here preferably um ones with more of a pointy tip okay here and preferably a larger size but strawberries are not in season so i had to work with what i can get um [Music] a flower cookie cutter here i have a plastic one which is more of a comfortable grip but the metal ones are easier to cut with so you know what i mean when you actually start cutting but um either one will work fine any design is fine um you can even do parts or circles but for this case we're going to do flower ones okay and here we have a pineapple some kale to cover the base here and as far as equipment we have our cutting board that will help protect our table there if you have a zigzag knife that will be a bonus if not don't worry um you can just just do plain edge cutting with just a regular knife but for sure you'll need a knife a small paring knife root knife a melon baller if you do have one if not you can go ahead and just use a one teaspoon measuring spoon here so it works pretty much about the same because we're going to use here i have melon baller but you know there's a small end and the large end of the large and it's about the same size which is the one that we're going to be using which is the same size as the one teaspoon okay and for this demonstration i'll just not go ahead and use melon baller i'll just go ahead and use the measuring spoon since not everyone has one okay so here i have two sizes of the zigzag knife a small one on the large one large ones are always easier to handle a spoon to clean up the cantaloupe okay so i'm gonna set all my equipment aside and of course a large bowl so that you can put all your excess garbage in and you're going to need about i want to say 30 skewer sticks so this is a pack of 100 so it's plenty and plenty for us today so usually for an arrangement we do anywhere from 30 to 40 maybe in the skewer so it just all depends on your design and how you want it to look for the recipe i have is probably about 30 skewers at most here so first what we're going to do is we are going to cut our cantaloupe okay so um your cantaloupe has the ends here okay top and bottom this is where the stem came off of what you're going to do is you're going to make sure that's on your right and left okay um usually the cantaloupe would sit on the bottom with the stem in on top we're gonna cut it this way okay so make sure your stem ends are to your left and right so here i'm going to just go ahead and cut with my regular knife here okay so we're just going to prep everything so just carefully hold your cantaloupe cut it in half and then with your large spoon in your large bowl you're just going to scoop out all the seeds because you don't need any of that [Music] so here i did scrub mine okay so it's okay to cut into it just hold on to the top and then just twist let's see here it's not coming off but twist it it should come right off here okay so that we're gonna put off to the side so what you're going to do is very carefully just start cutting you don't need the top part here so you can just cut that off my little bruise there but not too not too worried let's move that there so just cut enough so that you have the core cut off so here i'm going to cut um i'm going to try to get at least let's see if i cut one inch one two three four five six i'm trying to get seven but this is a small pineapple so i might be able just to get i want to say six but let's see so you want to try your best to just cut it evenly okay [Music] okay so i got one two three this one i'm going to shave off a little bit because it kind of got bruised there so i'm just going to carefully shave off that because i don't want to bruise looking flower later okay so that should be fine there let's try the fingers with little paper towels okay next i'm going to get my cookie cutter here and this is the floor flower okay so all we're going to do i'm going to show you here first is just kind of place it in the center here okay so you keep away from the eyes and then just push push it in push it in and through and then you can take your flour oops that's slippery there there you go that's one flower and with your paring knife if you need to you know make it a little bit more clean cut you can always do that on the cutting board but we're going to set this aside here i'm just going to stack it aside on the side there and i'm going to do my next one discard so i do have seven slices so i'm going to do seven flowers push that through okay again a little fuzz there so i'm just gonna cut it on my cutting board sometimes these pineapples are a little bit stringy [Music] okay so next let's get to our cantaloupe um here i'm going to do so yeah i'm not using my melon ball i'm just using the one teaspoon so in case you guys don't have it so what we're going to do is we want to make sure this part the thicker it is the better and what you're going to do is just you're going to push in and make sure you just cut you want to make sure you scoop out a nice round so what you're going to do is see you get a nice circle here from the spoon so that way this goes later into the center to create your flower okay so since we have seven flowers let's try to scoop out let's see again you're just gonna go make sure you get a nice round a little bit on the edge there your cantaloupe isn't too ripe it makes it a little difficult but then you do have a lot of the candle up here that you can work with so not to worry too much [Music] okay let's get our cantaloupe here let's put some of that juice out so what you're going to do next is you're just going to cut it in half and i'm using my crinkle knife okay so i want to get some of that nice design zigzag design on there so you're just going to cut that in half too okay and you're just going to cut triangles so this one i believe push it down a little hard harder [Music] all around i'm just going to use my paring knife here start them from the wide and just kind of slide it off so okay so that will be a clean cut there and you still have your ridges there so i'm gonna toss that i'm just gonna quickly cut the rest of them [Music] and what we're going to do is we're going to take our skewers and just prep all them so we're going to go from the bottom here not too in but you know all the way kind of up to about halfway okay so that you have enough control but you're not poking through you don't want it to go through [Music] we got that so what we're going to do is pierce into the middle of your flower and just gently [Music] actually easier this way so you want this the tip to kind of peek through about half an inch just enough so that you can put the center on there okay push it in after a little bit more if you poke out like this don't worry about it you can just push it on the table and then you can get it back in let's put that there because the core the pineapple sometimes can be a little stubborn okay [Music] okay so we have our cantaloupe pieces sliced and ready to go and now we have our and our flowers cut and ready to go okay so that's just going to be set aside here so next we're going to go ahead and cut our kiwi so what we're going to do is we're going to create a little kiwi flower here okay with the zigzag so what you're going to do is just kind of kind of eyeball where the center is and you're going to do this do a little incision that's about halfway about half an inch in to an inch but we're gonna score it not lightly how you make zigzags on top of a jack-o-lantern we're gonna do that here so i don't know if you can see that there so i'm just going to do a zigzag just a little fun thing to add in as a focal you don't want to do this part you can omit it okay so again i'm just kind of slightly scoring it zigzag about half an inch deep and all the while making sure that it's straight i mean even excuse me just back and forth until i meet the front again so i'm just making these zigzag and then just make sure when you get to the where the vs meet make sure they are cut so here i'm going to go back around again this time i'm pushing it in about an inch in this time okay inches up right there my finger there that tip right there so i'm just kind of going over it again okay so after you do that if you just gently got it in deep enough you can just pull it apart and voila there you go we've got two of these here that we're just going to put aside here and then next you're going to cut your orange already washed mines okay so we're gonna do is um just like your cantaloupe earlier we're going to make sure the stem part is either to your right or left and then the butt right here i called the butt is to your right or left and then you're just going to look down and with your fruit knife paring knife smaller knife just go ahead and cut it in half just straight down and we're going to cut it into i want to say probably about six wedges [Music] after that we're going to prep our strawberries i should have at least 10 so i'm just gonna cut the bottoms off [Music] with my skewer sticks i'm just gonna go ahead and skew these since i already got them all cut and just aside so what i'm going to do is i'm i'm just going to put this in about halfway up my strawberry okay so if i eyeball this i can put my finger where i want it to stop and when i'm pushing in my finger would stop me from going any further because we don't want it to stick through our strawberries go ahead and pull more of this out again halfway through my strawberry have my finger there and i'm just going to go in the middle push it through and my finger again has will act like a stopper [Music] okay so i got those in so next i'm going to string my grapes i'm going to do i should have about 40 grapes here so we're gonna string five in each one so i'm going to take out eight so i have eight skewers here and when you're stringing your grapes you want to make sure all your grapes are all the same size okay so that they're not really off okay so um i try to do all the small ones on one and all the like bigger ones on one um to match up but match the sizes up because we want them to be even because if this one's all small this one can be all medium size or larger right so they don't look awkwardly different when you're putting them together okay you want it big and then small so you want them relatively all about the same and you're gently going from the bottom where the where you pulled off the stem okay the bottom end of it and to the top just because the top usually has a curvy point okay so i'm just gonna do five in each just string them in four and then the last one you want to make sure it goes about halfway in so if my grapes are about the same size this tip here is about half of my grape so i'm going to push all the rest of it up so i don't see any stems and then i'm going to put my grape in and i know it's not going to stick out because we don't want to see any of the any of them [Music] we have our foam here uh this is dry foam it's not the same as wet foam so we don't want to get it mix that with wet foam so this says dry okay so it's dry foam it's made for um use for artificial or dry flowers we don't soak this this will not soak you put this in water it's just gonna float back up so for this case we don't need it to be wet because we don't need any water on the stems so what we're going to do here is we're going to use the dry foam and what we're going to do is cut it about over about probably about half an inch to an inch so here i actually got it about an inch high so that should be fine so i'm just gonna cut into the corners a little bit here kind of score it and i'm going to take it back out and cut my phone that was a sweet okay so here we go because i don't want a lot of other debris to get into the fruit here okay all right so i got a piece of foam there but there's still some a little bit of a leeway here um let's see and it should be fine but i'm just going to cut a little piece a couple of pieces about an inch or so that i can fill into the sides here cut this in half slide this in probably here and here cut this in half again just cut it sideways so i can make sure it fits in here okay again i'm just using this so that the foam would stay and not move around okay just enough for that so i tucked in some here and some here so now my foam can't fall off okay there and then here i'm just gonna cut off the tips that are sticking out cut out the corners so that way i have more of a flat surface so here it's i cut off the tips there okay now we are done with our knife and our foam just kind of clean off a little bit here and i'm going to get my turntable and show you how that is there so before we go on we want to cover up with just a little bit of foil our foam okay just so that we don't get this all dirty and just so our fruit doesn't end up touching the foam here okay so we want to protect our fruit so i'm just pushing the foil in on the sides okay you have an excess too much just go ahead and tear it off you don't need all of it you can cut some off because we're just going to simply tuck tuck them in tuck in the sides okay then we want to make sure our foam is covered with the foil so okay so we don't want any of that for um foam to get into our fruit in case our fruit touches it but i mean after that we're going to cover it up with some kale anyway so these are some nice leafy kale and we're just going to get the leaf and break off the stems we don't need the stem that can be tossed and we're just going to hold it like this as we insert our stems because it will hold it hold um as we insert our stems it will hold the kale in place as well as cover up the foam for us okay cover up this foil which is the foam of course okay that way it kind of creates a little ruffled edge there a decorative um okay so with that said oh we forget to string after you put skewers on our oranges so we're gonna go back and do that so here same thing as if when you were threading the strawberries i'm going to put the oranges about halfway put them through and i have my finger there so i'm going to insert on the bottom here and just kind of skewer them in and that will hold it in place where i want it to stop [Music] so [Music] okay so again we're just gonna put a leaf over and we're going to insert the cantaloupe in there first so so we can create a rim around let's pour this this aside so i can have access so here with the cantaloupe we're going to cut this a little bit off from here just about a fingers worth which is about three and a half inches or so okay so that's to the bottom of my finger there because it's not too deep of a container and we want this on the outer edge um i'm going to hold my hand here so this part here that's below my finger is going to go in to the foam so i'm going to go this is the side i can feel the side of my container here and i'm just going to poke it in see twist it in a little bit here that's a lot of foam excuse me a lot of amount of uh foil there so i can get it in but they're sticking it about an inch out okay so again i'm just holding it at the base we don't want to hold where the fruit is because you're going to break it so about an inch apart okay put them in about the same and then on this case here i'm going to put another leaf here i'm going to break that off and i'm not going to use the back side down i'm going to do the front side up because it just looks a little prettier that way a lot more ruffles going on there so i'm just going let it be in place there cut my next one about a fingers worth again and i'm gonna hold my finger there to stop my placement so [Music] okay it's that round circle it's kind of like folding in and holding our bouquet so next we're gonna go to our focal flowers in this case is our focal pineapple flower so we're going to put this one straight into the center and i want to say it's going to be a little bit more halfway in so about one times one and a quarter or third times actually step back and see so this is one times our container this is a third okay do that and then i'm going to space the flowers out around it like so [Music] okay so it's already kind of looking pretty here and i'm going to tilt this a little bit you can kind of see but don't tilt it too much because it can break off so next i'm going to use the rest of my camel to kind of go in between but i'm not going like this way and this way i'm just still going having the curve inwards just because to keep it a little more um uniform okay [Music] over here here the gaps here i'm going to alternate the strawberries and my oranges so again i'm going to cut it fairly short probably again same length as my finger which is about three inches so i'm gonna go one here and then i'm not considering orange the next one all the while i'm leaning out i'm still creating that round circumference there thing is you want fresh fruits and you want them to be sweet because you want the recipient to like their gift and be able to eat it right away when it rise but sometimes when you're working with fresh fruit when it's too soft it might not it's not as easy to work with because it's ultra soft [Music] got this and so next i'm going to put in my kiwi i'm going to look back and see where my gaps are so i think it will look nice here okay so i got one kiwi flower there and the next one i'm going to put it on the opposite i side it will look nice here so i got one there and one there okay so now we're going to go ahead and use the rest of our strawberries but i'm gonna cut in an angle and then just like with flowers and the different color you know distribution you want to make sure your fruit is you know the color the texture everything is spaced out [Music] to fill in so whichever looks the best okay just kind of alternating [Music] so last but not least we're going to put in our grades and again color distribution okay but i do like to go from the top not from the tippy top but about halfway halfway i want to say as far as color distribution so kind of midway here and then i'm just going to space them out all the way around as we go so [Music] [Music] it kind of covers up my foam excuse me yeah my foam and my top there and trim a little bit off because it's kind of hanging you know some people actually like the way it looks all fluffy okay i'm gonna gently hold this it can get really heavy but here's the bouquet so it should look nice all around okay all righty now i have two um this one here i did cut into a circle so it gives it a little bit more of a different look so all you got to do is cut it like a tomato and slice it about i want to say half an inch to a third inch no less than a quarter inch thin that way you can insert the uh skewer sticks straight up so it will go through the top and then the into the rind but not through the rhine okay so thank you again for watching please subscribe if you have not done so and i look forward to the next project with you bye

Channel: Amour Florist & Bridal

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Keywords: DIY, fresh fruit bouquet, How to make, Amour florist, Fruit arrangement, Fruit bouquet, Edible arrangement, Edible bouquet

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Length: 43min 4sec (2584 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 06 2020