All about cheese bouquets

Cheese bouquets have become a popular gift for women and men who appreciate gourmet products and uncommon solutions. They can be monochromatic and multi-colored, well complemented by a gift in the form of a bottle of expensive wine or meat products. A detailed story about how to make a bouquet of cheese with your own hands in a master class, with and without sausage, with an overview of the secrets of making, will be useful to everyone who wants to surprise loved ones with an unusual gift.

Cheese bouquet can hardly be called an ordinary present. It is similar to a classic floral arrangement but is formed from edible ingredients. The assembly can be carried out on skewers or in boxes, from cheese and other ingredients. The finished bouquet is covered with a film so that the product does not wind up.

All cheese compositions can be roughly divided into several groups.

• Classic... They are made from traditional cheeses, the most popular. familiar to everyone. This allows you to avoid unpleasant surprises if the birthday person does not like too spicy or unusual flavor combinations.
• Delicatessen... Such bouquets are collected from smoked cheeses, as well as with additives - chili, lavender, guacamole. They are perfect for creating a gift for a sophisticated gourmet.
• Mixed... In addition to cheese, such bouquets include sausages, elite alcohol in small bottles, fruits, nuts, vegetables.

Making a cheese bouquet is a great gift solution. For a woman, you can collect a composition with fruits or nuts, a bottle of red or rose wine.For a man, the option with sausage or hunting sausages, hot pepper pods, whiskey or bitter balsam is more suitable. Consider a master class on creating a female cheese bouquet.

To create the simplest and most beautiful bouquet for the fair sex, you will need 3-4 varieties of cheese, white or red grapes, peeled walnuts and skewers about 30 cm long.Adhesive tape of different widths, craft paper, and elegant tape are useful for packaging.

The order of making a bouquet will be as follows.

• Cut the cheese into small triangles. Place on skewers.
• Divide the grapes into twigs of 2-3 berries. If it is large, you can put it directly on the skewer. The twig is attached to it with a narrow strip of tape.
• Chop the walnuts on skewers.

Form a bouquet. First, in the center, collect a bunch of several cheese pieces, surround it with skewers with grapes and nuts. Then collect the cheese again in a circle until the bouquet is formed. At each intermediate stage, the bases of the skewers are rolled up with wide adhesive tape. At the end of the process of forming the bouquet, the excess part of the skewers is removed with scissors or nippers.

Pack the bouquet. You will need 4 sheets of paper 30 × 30 cm, folded in half so that the 2 corners do not converge. Secure in a circle with tape on the bouquet. The skewers at the bottom are closed with a paper square 18 × 18 cm, it is fastened with tape, tied with a ribbon. A beautiful gift arrangement for a girl or woman is ready.

It's easy to make a cheese bouquet with sausage for men... The typically masculine gourmet set is easy to assemble using the most popular gastronomic ingredients. You will need pieces of salami, thin slices of hard cheese, smoked sausages and cheeses in the form of sticks, braids. Wheat and rye buns and parsley are also useful. You will need wrapping cellophane, red tape, craft paper, styrofoam, skewers, scissors and small rubber bands.

The step-by-step procedure for making a bouquet will be as follows. The foam is placed in the center of a sheet of craft paper. A rectangle of 100 × 150 mm is enough. It is wrapped in a sheet so as to form a "basket", the whole structure is fixed with an elastic band.

Prepare ingredients. Place cheese sticks and sausages on skewers. Wrap slices of cheese like a flower around hunting delicacies. Form roses in buds from layers of salami, bandage. Divide the buns into slices, chop on skewers.

Collect the bouquet. In its central part there will be flowers made of cheese and hunting sausages, then meat roses, slices of bread and cheese sticks are placed. For a bright and fresh touch, add parsley to the composition.

A classic cheese bouquet is always collected on skewers, cut with a sharp knife. When working with it, you must wear gloves, use special boards and cling film to avoid mixing odors or contaminating food. Among the useful recommendations for creating cheese bouquets are such tips.

• The right choice of products. Only cheese that is not very soft or hard, dense, not crumbly is suitable. The optimal solution will be young and mature varieties.
• Thorough cooling. The cheese must be kept in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour before the bouquet is made. If you do not follow this rule, the product will be too soft and cause a lot of inconvenience when slicing. In the worst case, the cheese will become deformed, melt or release fat.
• Cutting method. Usually the product is cut into small cubes or triangles.
• Layout rules. Any bouquet requires prior planning. If multi-colored cheeses are used in work, their combination in a bouquet should be thought out.For example, you can put together a composition with orange, green, lavender options. The gaps are easy to fill with skewers, strawberries, grapes, nuts, olives or olives.
• Fitting rules. Each piece of cheese is pierced exactly in the middle with the tip of a skewer, slowly and gradually. Do not immerse the tip too deeply. If you act roughly, the cheese will simply split into pieces.

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