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Frozen Flower Serving Bowls

FRESH FROM our staff of kitchen crafters is a “cool” set of dishes you can easily shape for any occasion. What’s so special about these servers? To make them, you freeze flower filled water into bowl forms! The results of this fun kind of “sculpting” are intriguingly like crystal—at a cost you can easily afford. And the options are just about limitless for how you can put them to use. For example,

3 ServingsPrep: 30 min. + freezing

Ingredients

Materials needed:
Assorted herbs and edible flowers such as mint, chamomile, pansies, nasturtiums, etc. or colored silk flowers and leaves
Ice cubes
Freezer tape
Wooden skewer
FOR LARGE BOWL: Freezer-proof glass bowls—one 1-quart bowl and one 2-1/2 quart bowl
FOR EACH SMALL BOWL: Freezer-proof glass custard cups—one 6-ounce cup and one 10-ounce cup

Directions

Directions: If you are using herbs and edible flowers, wash and pat
dry blossoms and leaves. If you are using silk flowers and leaves,
wash them gently in warm sudsy water, rinse and let the
foliage air-dry.
LARGE BOWL: Fill the 2-1/2-quart bowl half full with water. Arrange
herbs and flowers or silk flowers and leaves to completely cover
surface of the water. Place the 1-quart bowl on top of flowers so
that there is about 1 inch of space between the bowls. Fill the
1-quart bowl with ice cubes and place freezer tape across both bowls
to hold them in place (see Fig. 1).
Place the taped bowls in the freezer for 30 minutes or until ice
crystals form on top of the water. Using a wooden skewer, place

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Frozen Flower Serving Bowls (continued)

Directions (continued)

additional herbs or leaves and flowers between the sides of the
bowls (see Fig. 2). Return bowls to freezer. Checking periodically
on the bowls, continue to add and reposition flowers as the water
freezes. Freeze overnight. To release the 1-quart bowl, remove
freezer tape and ice cubes. Fill the 1-quart bowl with lukewarm
water, then remove it from the ice bowl. To remove the 2-1/2-quart
bowl, dip it in warm water and twist to loosen. Return the ice bowl
to the freezer until you are ready to use it.
SMALL BOWL: Follow the procedure for filling the large bowl with
water and flowers, substituting the 10-ounce custard cup for the
2-1/2-quart bowl and 6-ounce custard cup for the 1-quart bowl. Tape
and freeze custard cups as directed for large bowl, adding flowers
with wooden skewer as the ice forms. Freeze small
bowl for 4-5 hours. Remove custard cups as directed for bowls and
place small ice bowl in freezer until you are ready to use it.
Yield: 3 bowls.

Crafterthoughts The sizes of bowls you make can easily be varied to suit your purposes. (Do keep in mind that you’ll want your servers to be thick enough, so pick large and small bowls for forming the ice versions that aren’t too close in size.) Tint the water with food coloring before you freeze it so the bowls match your decor…or the wedding party’s apparel…or your guest’s favorite hue. Finished size: Large bowl is 6 inches in diameter x 3 inches tall. Small bowls are 3-1/2 inches in diameter x 1-3/4 inches tall.