Do-it-yourself sausage bouquet for a woman. Photo

Edible bouquets are increasingly common as gifts for various holidays. They can consist of different products - fruits, sweets, sausages, cheese and/or vegetables. Such compositions not only look beautiful, but also represent a tasty and appetizing treat.

Edible bouquets for women often feature bright components with sweetness and sourness in the taste. Even if the composition consists mainly of meat products, cherry tomatoes, greens and bell peppers, as well as some fruits (for example, oranges, lemons, pineapples or quince) are usually added as decoration.

Selection of products

To create such a bouquet yourself, you need to think in advance how it will look. For the composition, you can use any kind of sausage, ham, bacon and other meat products.

To ensure that a gift made from them is beautiful and safe, you need to pay attention to the following details:

• The products must be as fresh as possible, not dry and not too wet.
• Sausages and other products should be selected without any noticeable defects, in an undamaged casing.
• The taste and smell of the products should be natural and pleasant, without acidity or other signs of spoilage.

Most large retail outlets offer the service of cutting meat products into thin slices, which will make the job much easier. When cutting yourself, you will need a very sharp knife - it is necessary that the slices are as thin as possible.

After the sausages and other meat products have been selected, you should think about other products that can be used to decorate the bouquet. For compositions intended for women, any bright vegetables will do - tomatoes, multi-colored bell peppers, citrus fruits.

Necessary materials

A bouquet of sausage for a woman can be easily made at home.

Regardless of its composition, certain materials will be needed:

• A heavy, stable vessel with a wide mouth that will be used as a base. Since the products can be quite heavy, it is necessary to choose a container that can hold them in place. For small bouquets, a heavy mug or a thick glass vase will do, for larger ones - a bucket or a box with some kind of weight inside. You can use a flat basket as a base, but such a bouquet will not look like a flower bouquet.
• Long bamboo skewers and a good pair of scissors to trim them to get different heights for the 'flowers'.
• Coated paper to wrap the arrangement and hold it in shape. Regular wrapping materials will develop unsightly greasy stains when in contact with the ingredients. If coated paper is unavailable, waxed paper can be used.
• Ribbon or even twine to tie the finished bouquet.

In addition, you will need to clear enough space in the refrigerator in advance to store the assembled sausage bouquet until presentation. It is recommended to cover the gift with plastic wrap to prevent it from drying out.

From sausage and cheese

A bouquet of sausages for a woman can be made with the addition of different types of cheese and some fruits.

To do this you will need the following:

• Sliced ​​dry-cured and smoked sausages, ham and balyk, thin smoked sausages.
• Cubes of various hard cheeses, mozzarella balls.
• Large grapes and other fruits.
• Breadsticks or pretzels.
• Bamboo skewers.
• 1-2 sheets of coated paper or freezer paper, appropriate size.
• A heavy base container – a glass mug, vase, etc. You may need to weigh it down if it is not heavy enough to support the bouquet.
• Gift tissue paper to wrap the finished product.

Other tools you will need include a sharp chef's knife, a cutting board and kitchen scissors.

The process of making a bouquet is as follows:

1. The most important thing is to make sure that the structure will not tip over once it is finished. This depends on how heavy and numerous the sausage and other ingredients will be, as well as the strength and stability of the base container. If necessary, you should weigh it down by placing something heavy on its bottom - for example, a pickling weight or several clean decorative stones or marble. It is advisable to first wrap them in gift tissue paper or something similar so as not to damage the container (especially if it is glass). It is necessary to do everything possible to create a stable base for a heavy bouquet.
2. Next, you need to chop up the various ingredients, thread them onto sticks and set them aside.
3. The coated paper should be folded into a base with the coated side facing inward (where the "flowers" of sausage and other components will be placed) and spread along the inner edge. This will prevent the appearance of greasy stains from sausages and cheese.
4. Once the paper is laid out, you need to place the skewers with the components at the base, deciding which of them will be placed lower in the bouquet and which ones will be higher, and accordingly trim the lower parts with kitchen scissors.
5. Next, you need to arrange breadsticks or pretzels as needed, filling the empty spaces between the “flowers”.
6. The finished bouquet should be wrapped in gift tissue paper, tied with a ribbon. Then the product should be loosely covered with polyethylene film and put in the refrigerator.

From sausage and vegetables

A bouquet of sausages for a woman can be assembled without a base container. It is better to expand the range of products used - in addition to sausages, fresh vegetables and a thin baguette, as well as bright edible greens are ideal.

In total you will need the following:

• thin sticks of smoked sausage;
• 2 small sweet peppers of different colors (orange, red or yellow);
• 2 hot peppers of different colors (green and red);
• braided cheese;
• cherry tomatoes;
• thin long baguette;
• fresh herbs.

In addition, certain materials are required:

• wooden or bamboo skewers;
• thick rope or tape;
• coated paper;
• decorative tissue paper;
• satin ribbon.

The process of making such an edible gift is quite simple:

1. You need to cut the baguette and sausage sticks into 2-3 long pieces (leave the very small sausages whole), and thread all the pieces onto skewers.
2. In a similar manner, you need to string a cheese braid.
3. All vegetables must be washed and wiped dry.
4. Next, you need to string them onto skewers (hot peppers – 1, sweet peppers – 2-3, cherry tomatoes – 3-4 pieces per 1).
5. After this, you need to lay out a sheet of decorative paper diagonally, forming a triangle, place coated paper folded in 2 layers in the middle, and begin assembling the composition - place all the "flowers" so that they are all clearly visible and in harmony with each other, and firmly tie the ends of the skewers.
6. Once everything is secured, you should straighten the pieces out to create a nice teardrop shape.
7. The ends of the tissue paper should be joined in a fan shape and secured with tape. This will allow all parts of the bouquet to remain open.
8. The gift should be finished with a satin ribbon tied into a bow.

Interesting options for women

A bouquet of sausages for a woman can have different designs.

There are both simplified versions that even teenagers can handle, and versions with complex details.

Flowers from sausage, balyk and cheese

For this composition you will need:

• thin salami sausages;
• slices of smoked balyk;
• round slices of cheese;
• loaf of hard bread;
• wooden skewers;
• toothpicks.

PThe preparation of such an edible gift is carried out as follows:

1. You need to cut thin round slices from the cheese, then make cuts on each one with a knife around the entire perimeter towards the middle (but do not cut all the way through), then bend them down. As a result, they will look like flower petals.
2. Next, you need to thread thin salami sausages onto wooden skewers to form stems.
3. Leaves should be cut out from thin slices of smoked balyk, then attached to the sausage stems using toothpicks.
4. In a similar manner, you need to attach cheese flowers to the tops of the sausage stems.
5. Then you need to trim the bottom of the loaf of bread so that it stands upright and cut out a vase from it, stick sausage and cheese flowers into it, adjusting their height.

Baked Bacon Bouquet

Bacon roses are a tasty twist on the traditional flower gift. This recipe calls for baking the meat with brown sugar and then turning it into attractive flowers.

To prepare this sweet gift you will need:

• 500 g raw bacon slices;
• 0.25 cup dark brown sugar.

To make bacon flowers, you will need to follow these steps:

1. The oven must be preheated to 190 degrees.
2. The strip of bacon must be pierced with a toothpick from the short end, then tightly rolled up by about a third.
3. The rest of the slice should be unrolled clockwise and continue rolling to form petals.
4. The resulting flower-shaped blank must be secured with one or two toothpicks at the bottom.
5. The previous steps should be repeated for all the bacon strips.
6. Next, place the pieces in muffin tins and sprinkle each with a pinch of brown sugar, place in the oven and bake for 20 minutes.
7. Once the bacon flowers have cooled, attach the bottom of each to a wooden skewer and they can be used to assemble the bouquet.

A bouquet of roses made from bacon, sausage and other tasty ingredients, intended for a woman, can be made as follows:

1. All the components for the bouquet should be collected and attached to wooden skewers using transparent tape. In combination with bacon flowers, it is recommended to use thin dry-cured sausages, miniature bottles of liqueur and various packaged sweets.
2. Then you need to choose a vase or heavy flower pot as a base, place a piece of foam or floral foam in it and secure it with glue.
3. Next, you need to stick the edges of the skewers into the foam, trimming them if necessary (to adjust the height of the “flowers”).
4. After this, you need to wrap the structure with a triangular sheet of gift paper and tie it with a satin ribbon.

Bouquet based on artificial flowers

This gift option also requires baked bacon roses, but they should be attached to artificial flowers instead of skewers.

Accordingly, you will need a bouquet of artificial roses. Since you are planning to create an edible gift, it should be clean and new.

The process of creating a bouquet looks like this:

1. It is necessary to remove the flowers from the artificial roses. To do this, you just need to pull them and tear them off the green base.
2. Then you need to attach a wooden stick to each stem so that it is strong enough to support the bacon figure.
3. The blanks should be placed in a vase or in a decorative box (you should first line it with parchment paper to absorb the remaining fat).
4. After this, you need to attach the cooled bacon roses to the prepared stems using toothpicks.

Bouquet of sausage and dried meat

This is an easy way to make a beautiful edible gift.

For this you will need:

• thin long pieces of dried meat;
• rectangular slices of ham;
• sausage slices of a fairly large diameter;
• container or vase;
• floral foam;
• toothpicks;
• cigarette paper.

PThe process of making this bouquet looks like this:

1. To make the daisies, you need to cut the edges of the sausage slices into petals and make a hole in the middle large enough to thread the pieces onto strips of dried meat.
2. To make tulips, roll up slices of ham, straighten the edges to form petals, and then attach the rolls to sticks of dried meat using toothpicks.
3. The container or vase should be filled with floral foam to about 2/3 of its volume.
4. Meat flowers need to be placed into the base and attached to the floral foam using toothpicks.
5. After this, you need to use tissue paper or crumpled colored paper and fill the rest of the container to hide the fasteners.
6. The entire structure should be wrapped in a triangular sheet of tissue paper and tied with a ribbon.

Bouquet in a basket

This is the easiest way to create a bouquet of sausages. All its components should be laid out in a flat basket in random order, creating a beautiful composition. Flowers of various shapes can be formed from meat products.

How to make roses from salami and other types of sausage:

1. You need to roll the slice into a cone and wrap it with 2-3 other slices, repeating the shape.
2. When the workpiece looks like a multi-layered flower, you need to fasten its layers together with a toothpick.

To create a flower from a long strip of ham you will need:

1. Using a sharp knife, make one longitudinal cut down the center of the slice of ham, stopping about 2-3 cm from the opposite edge so that it remains intact.
2. Starting at one of the cut ends, roll the ham towards you and make a long "u" shape, going through the joined portion and up the other side of the cut.
3. It is necessary to regulate the rolling density so that the outer layers can expand outward like the petals of a flower.
4. After finishing twisting, you need to tuck the end from below so that the workpiece does not unravel.

For To create a flower from a square slice of ham and radish, you will need the following:

1. You need to cut the radishes so that you get red central parts for the flowers.
2. The slice of ham should be cut in half and then each piece should be folded in half lengthwise.
3. Next, you need to make small cuts every 5 mm along the folded edge, then turn it over to the other side and fold it in half again.
4. Then you need to place a piece of radish on the edge of the blank and roll it up, using the vegetable as the core.
5. Once the ham is completely rolled, secure the ends with a toothpick.

As a base for the bouquet, you need to lay out leafy greenery in several layers in the basket. Flowers made from sausage and meat products should be laid out on it.

To create additional decoration in the form of leaves and stems, you can use strips of fresh cucumber (cut with a vegetable peeler) and fresh herbs. In addition, the edible bouquet can consist of any products of your choice.

Vegetables	Fruits	Other products	Decoration
Cherry tomatoes; sweet peppers; hot peppers; physalis; garlic; pickled vegetables.	Lemons; oranges; pears; quince; pineapple; apples.	Cheese; breadsticks; baguette; portioned boxes with honey and jam; crackers.	Fresh herbs; decorative spikelets and flowers; miniature bottles of alcoholic drinks.

Practical tips for creating a bouquet

The main tips and recommendations regarding the preparation of an edible bouquet for a woman are as follows:

• First, you need to make a base in which the bouquet will be placed. If you can't find a suitable container, you can assemble the gift without it. In this case, you will need parchment (or very strong paper), which should be laid out diagonally and all the edible "flowers" should be placed. Then you need to roll it into a cone shape and secure it with tape, and wrap it with tissue paper on top and tie it with ribbons.
• You need to use enough string or rubber bands to hold the bouquet together, and they don't have to look pretty. You can also adjust the height of the skewers to make the bouquet more rounded. This design should be wrapped in decorative wrap. You can also stuff the bottom (hidden) part of the bouquet with tissue paper, which will act as a stabilizer.

• Wooden skewers can be painted green with food coloring, or plastic stems from artificial flowers can be used instead.
• Baked roses can be made with "turkey bacon" to make the product less fatty and caloric.
• Some meats can be drizzled with honey or maple syrup before being rolled into flowers, and sprinkled with pepper for extra flavor.

It is recommended to assemble a bouquet of sausages and other products shortly before its presentation. If it is stored for a long time, it may become damp and begin to lose its shape. Storage should be carried out exclusively in the refrigerator.

Before presenting it, you can attach a card with an original greeting for the woman, preferably hand-signed.

Video instructions for making a bouquet of sausages

Do-it-yourself sausage bouquet: