Preparing for the upcoming holiday, you try to take into account every little thing. Thoroughly think over the menu, select drinks based on your dishes and snacks. But it is not enough to cook a delicious dish; it is also important to serve it unusually on the festive table. The most popular way to decorate is with various food figurines. This method of decoration is called carving. It is fairly easy to master this art at home. It is enough to turn to the Internet, where you can always find many carving lessons and purchase special knives in online stores.
It is necessary
A large, beautiful, hard apple - 3 pieces, a sharp, preferably a small knife
Instructions
Step 1
Wash the apple well, dry it. Then cut in half, the lobes should be the same.
Step 2
Place the half apple on the board, cut side down. In its center, make cuts about 3 cm so that a strip 1 cm wide forms in the middle. From each side, make another cut perpendicular to the first. Remove the resulting slices. This will be the swan's torso.
Step 3
From the apple slices that you cut along the edges of the strip, make wings. In the same way as in the second paragraph, cut out the slices with a corner. Only the depth of the cut should be about 5 mm. You need to make 4-5 of such lobes for the wing, so use another apple if necessary.
Step 4
Then you need to fold the "feathers of the wings" in steps, so that the corner of one slice covers slightly the other. Use toothpicks to attach them to the swan's body.
Step 5
Now you need to make the swan's head, for this you need to take a new apple. Cut it off on both sides, leaving a 1.5 cm gap in the middle. Then cut a thin slice together with the stalk and cut out the neck from it, leaving a part of the stalk to simulate the head. Make a small indentation in the head for the eye and place the seed there.
