This weekend, the hitch in my sister's giddy-up was that she wanted to make a fruit bouquet. I am not a huge fan of either fruits or bouquets, but I thought I'd document the process for anyone who might want to try it.
I'm going to try it with candy and cookies. That's how I roll.
First, gather your fruity supplies:
One or two pineapples (fresh), a cantaloupe, strawberries, a head of lettuce. What you don't see is grapes, wooden kebab sticks, and various sizes and shapes of cookie cutters. We used biscuit cutters with a ruffled edge, as well as a butterfly cookie cutter and a melon baller.
Your first step is to horizontally slice the pineapple and some of the melon.
With the remaining melong, ball it. You need as many balls as you have slices of pineapple.
Use the cookie cutter to cut shapes from the pineapple slices. Vary the sizes of these shapes because these will become your flowers.
Cut the head of lettuce in half, and stick half in a pot or basket.
You are ready to start moving and grooving. We cut the sticks to different lengths, and my sister started building the flowers. First, a slice of pineapple, then a melon ball. She handed the completed flower to Mykiah (or later, to me) and we stuck it in the lettuce.
For filler, we had butterflies cut out of melon slices, and skewers filled with halved strawberries and whole grapes.
Continue until you use up all the fruit. Or your hands get so sticky you quit. Or you just get tired of sitting there playing with fruit.
Use as a centerpiece for Easter dinner. After dinner, you have dessert right at your fingertips.
I did this step by step as part of the I Heart Faces weekly challenge. Thanks to my sister for the fun idea!
