Food Art and Craft/Carving

Sliced guavas & carrots on a cabbage leaf

(Using a flower shape cookie cutter cut out flowers from the centre of sliced

guavas & carrots. Replace the flowers of carrot with guava & vice versa)

Sliced orange topped with black grapes, cherry , spinach

(moustache) Guava ( rays & clouds),apple, papaya & lettuce(greens)

To make guava triangles for rays - divide a slice of guava into 8

segments n arrange around the orange slice.

Fruity Traffic Lights Sandwich

Sandwich filled with Peanut butter & apple chunks ,topped

with colorful apples (cut the colorful slices from the sides of the

apples , dab a little PB to fix to the bread )

Fruit-o- lantern

Skewered Black grapes & carved cape

gooseberries (rasbhari/physalis) . Use yellow

tomatoes in absence of the berries .

For the lollies- Core n divide the Apple in

four. Draw a heart or make a heart impression

with a cookie cutter & gently peel off. Soak for 5

mins in lemon water to prevent browning .

Pat dry , top on skewers n serve......

Guava flowers - made by cutting the guavas

through an apple corer slicer

Gift theme Sandwiches- white n brown bread, carrots n cucumber

Sliced & lighly tossed baby corn with cucumber & carrot

Bread, jam / jelly , sprinkles, strawberries, chocolates

gadgets- heart shape cookie cutters in 2 graduating sizes .

Rice, beet juice, salt, lemon juice , lettuce

n flavorings of your choice .

Diwali Lamps (Diya)

Cucumber & carrot slices

Diya- Cut out a crescent from a side of a cucumber slice

using a circular cookie cutter or a bottle cap .

Flame- cut out crescents from both the sides of a carrot

slice to make a drop shape flame. Assemble .

Make the desired pattern on a platter using tomato

sauce( fill in squeeze bottle or use a sachet ). Arrange

the sprouts /soaked /boiled lentils & veggies.

Krackjack buiscuits /Graham crackers , julienned cucumber

tomato sauce .

For The fireworks rocket - Oblong bread rolls & tomato/ cottage

cheese/ cucumber triangles on a skewer .

Spinach murukku/chakli and mini swiss rolls (fireworks spirals)

Elmo Fruitoon

Watermelon slice ,cucumbers, olives & carrot

Watermelon , olives, cucumber , jelly sticks /shoestring licorice

( Divide a slice of watermelon in half , using a circular cookie

cutter or a bottle cap cut out semicircles from the straight side

of the melon , use finely cut strips of cucumber to make

umbrella divisions & raindrops . Bend a jelly stick to

make the handle . )

Carrot , baked potato

Skewered Red n green grapes mounted

on a banana

Hickory Dickory Dock

The mouse went up the clock ....

Clock - Orange slice, pieces of grape peels , celery

Mouse- Strawberry , sliced grapes for ears , mini mint

candies for eyes , black grape slice for nose

Bread ( cut with a circular cookie cutter ) , lettuce, red cabbage ,

carrot,capsicum , olives, chocolate coated candy gems , corn .

Drums

orange, grapes 

Hard boiled egg, spinach, red cabbage n carrot .

Gadget - flower shape craft punches

Punch out flowers from spinach , red cabbage n

carrot slices , stick on the egg with mayo .

hard boiled eggs, savory loops , spinach n beet juice

or few drops of edible color .

Divide the egg into two halves , cut a thick slice from

the ends to make a stable base for the baskets. Soak the

slices in spinach/ beet juice or edible color ( few drops

mixed in half a cup of water ) . Once the desired color is

achieved pat dry n place on the basket. Cut a savory loop

in half n place as handles .

Bread, cheese , carrot, cucumber , olives

Bread,cheese ,cucumber ,olives ,egg, armenian cucumber (kakdi)

Bread, cheese , carrot, olives , egg

Bread, cheese , carrot, cucumber , olives , egg, tomato sauce