How to Make an Edible Mother's Day Bouquet
Moms love getting bouquets for Mother's Day. You could send flowers like you do every year, or you could spruce things up a bit. Edible bouquets are pretty and provide a tasty treat for mom. Plus if you're nice, she just might share.
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Buy a variety of fruits and vegetables. You want a rainbow of color that includes greens, yellows, oranges and pinks. You can choose to make flowers that all look the same or you can make different flowers for a spring bouquet. Most of the time you use the fleshy part of the fruit, so pick your colors based on it rather than the skin.
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Use edible flowers in your bouquet. There are many varieties of flowers that are edible. You can coat them with a light dusting of sugar or chocolate. Anise hyssop, apple blossoms, carnations, day lilies, hibiscus, lilacs and pansies are all edible flowers.
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Cut out shapes. You can use cookie cutters in the shapes of flowers or cut the shapes out with a paring knife. Cut smaller circles for the center of the flowers and curvy shapes for the leaves. Try to use contrasting colors for the center of the flower.
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Find a cute container. You need to have a container large enough to hold your edible flowers. To add to the Mother's Day theme, buy a mug or a container that says, "Happy Mother's Day," on it.
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Assemble the fruit. Use skewers to hold the flower shapes together. You can stick the skewer into a Styrofoam block to keep the bouquet steady during transport.
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Make a candy bouquet. Buy a flower pot, silk flowers, your mom's favorite candy and a bow. Arrange the candy and flowers in the flower pot. To finish the look, tie a bow around the flower pot.
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Bake cookies for your mom. You can use a sugar cookie recipe and a flower shaped cookie cutter. Decorate the cookies using colored frosting. Put the flower cookies onto skewers and arrange in your favorite container.
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