How to Make Spiked Fruit Salad
You're craving dessert, but you want something lighter than cake, pie or ice cream. The solution: How about making fruit salad? Or, better yet, make it spiked, to give it an extra kick. Here's how to make delicious spiked fruit salad, all from scratch. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- A cutting knife
- A large bowl
- A cutting board
- Two apples
- Two kiwis
- Two oranges
- A handful of strawberries
- A bunch of seedless grapes
- A handful of raisins
- A bowl of heavy cream (optional)
- Sugar or powdered sweetener
- A lemon
- Brandy
Instructions
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Peel your oranges, kiwis and bananas.
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Remove the cores from your apples.
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Remove the stems from your strawberries.
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Slice all your peeled and cored fruit into pieces about the width of a quarter, making them about one to two millimeters thick. The thinner and smaller the pieces are, the more the flavors will mix nicely together in the end. Slice the grapes into halves. Do not slice the raisins.
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Place all your cut up fruit and your raisins into a bowl and squeeze a little bit of lemon juice over it. The juice will prevent your fruit from turning brown.
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Add a sprinkling of sugar or powdered sweetener over your fruit. You may also opt to add a dollop or two of heavy cream and mix it with the fruit.
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Add a few tablespoons of brandy into your fruit salad and mix it up with your ingredients. Add about one tablespoon of brandy per one cup of cut up fruit.
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Let your spiked fruit salad sit in a fridge for at least two hours to allow all the flavors and the alcohol to mix together.
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Serve in cups or glasses and enjoy!
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Tips & Warnings
You can use any kind of fruit that you want, but bear in mind that the more watery the fruit (melons), the more time it will take to soak up the alcohol.
