How to Design Edible Fruit

Cut a pineapple to make flowers for an edible fruit basket.

Edible fruit bouquets make an excellent centerpiece for dinner parties or gifts for social functions. The best bouquets utilize a wide range of colorful fruits placed into a decorative opaque vase or basket. The holder should be opaque to hide the floral foam and skewers that will be inside the base.

Things You'll Need

• Assorted fruits (pineapple, strawberries, cantaloupe, grapes)
• Parsley
• Flower cookie cutter
• Knife
• Melon baller
• Scissors
• Wood skewers
• Vase
• Floral foam

Instructions

1. Slice pineapple into rings. Press cookie cutter into each ring to create a pineapple flower.

2. Cut open the cantaloupe. Use the melon baller to remove a ball of fruit. Cut the ball in half. Place each half on the center of the pineapple flowers. Repeat until each flower has a center.

3. Poke a wood skewer through the back of the pineapple flower so that the skewer also goes into the cantaloupe ball. Don't let the skewer come out the other side.

4. Poke a skewer through each strawberry from the end with leaves. Don't let the skewer poke out the other end.

5. Skewer six to eight grapes, making them sit close on the skewer but keeping the skewer from sticking out of the top grape.

6. Stuff floral foam into the inside of an opaque vase. Arrange the skewered fruit, sticking the skewers into the foam for placement. Play around with positioning. Place skewers at different angles and cut some skewers shorter to create a layered look.

7. Stuff parsley leaves in between bare spots in the edible fruit bouquet.

References

• Plan the Perfect Baby Shower: How to Make an Edible Fruit Bouquet