Course Overview
It’s widely known that you eat with your eyes first!
Art of Carving Fruit and Vegetables course is designed to help you present your food in a visually appealing, creative, and appetizing way.
In this course, you will gain hands-on skills and techniques to create stunning fruit and vegetable centerpieces. Specifically, you’ll learn how to use a knife safely to carve various shapes such as leaves, roses, lilies, swans, and fruit baskets.
You will be amazed at how quickly you can master these skills, enabling you to craft attractive plate settings and, at more advanced levels, truly impressive table centerpieces.
Whether you enjoy impressing guests at dinner parties or are a catering professional looking to showcase your artistry, this course will elevate your presentation skills.
By the end of the course, you will never look at fruits and vegetables the same way again!
Macquarie Community College operates from a range of venues across Northern and Western Sydney. We have campuses in Blacktown, Carlingford, Chatswood, Epping, Mt Druitt, Richmond, and Ryde. Enrol now!
What you will learn
Course outline
In this course you will learn carving and garnishing techniques for example:
- Carving watermelons into fruit baskets
- Carving carrots into leaves
- Carving zucchinis into roses
- Carving apples into swans
- Carving fennel into calla lilies
- How to hold a carving knife
- How to preserve fruits and vegetables
Course outcome
By the end of the course, students will have learned techniques to creatively and confidently carve fruits and vegetables into delicate patterns and flowers for use as garnishes, fruit platters, and decorations.
What you need to know
Entry requirements
No prerequisites required. This class is suitable for beginners to advanced carvers.
Students must be able to satisfy basic carving techniques including correctly holding carving knives and completing various carving to proceed to more advanced and delicate forms of carving.
What you need to provide
- A chopping board
- One of the classes will require students to bring their own watermelon to carve into a fruit basket (to be advised the class before)
Other information
- The carving knife at the first class is $10
- If students wish to purchase the entire carving set (including 80 additional knives and carving tools the cost is $80)
- The teacher will provide the fruit for each class (except for the watermelon). At the end of each class the cost of the fruit is split between the students (usually $4-5 dollars each student).