• Cream can be piped onto dishes or plates or poured into soup and swirled.
• Pastry decorations like leaves can be used on the top of apple tarts.
• Fruit can be puréed, made into a sauce or coulis, frosted or fresh, or arranged attractively on the dish or plate.
• Sugar can be sieved directly onto the dish or onto a cake through a doily to create an interesting pattern on a cake. Sugar can also be spun or made into icing (fondant, glacé or royal).
• Chocolate can be used in many ways to decorate sweet dishes – it can be melted, curled, grated and piped into decorative shapes.
Don’t Forget! Be creative with your presentation. Always remember that we eat with our eyes first.
Food preparation appliances
There is a wide range of food preparation appliances available to speed up preparation time, including: • kettles • blenders • liquidisers • food mixers • food processors • juicers • juice extractors • carving knives • smoothie makers
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