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Homemade Edible Fruit Arrangement

Jul 11, 2010 Appetizers, Food Things, Healthy, Tips and Tricks

It all started with a dream…and a very tight budget.

The dream of the perfect wedding shower for my friend Melissa that included an edible fruit arrangement.

Here is Erin who hosted the shower, with Melissa (the bride) admiring the napkins that Erin picked out. Melissa loves the small details.

The edible bouquet was going to be fun. We had the rest of the menu planned out but we wanted a way to display the fruit that was cute and different. Special touches like that are what make showers special, right?

So, we looked online and quickly found that fruit bouquets are expensive. A tiny one was over $60, and we didn’t want to focus on that as something we spent a lot of our money on. But Erin kept looking at the picture of the arrangement on the screen longingly, and after a while she said, “I think we could make that.”

I had my doubts, but I was willing. The day of the shower I showed up to Erin’s apartment with all of the fruit that the arrangement in the picture contained, and Erin was ready with a melon baller, skewers, a bucket, a cookie cutter, and a foam block. We used one of the green foam blocks you would used in a flower arrangement that crumble green flakes when you rub them. That worked perfect.

And we started cutting fruit. The melon baller was giving me LOTS of trouble, but we were able to form the balls well enough for them to look like spheres and stick them on the arrangement. The pineapple was cut with a flower shaped cookie cutter. The grapes and strawberries were just washed and used as is. That part was easy.

We laid a bunch of kale on top of the foam block to hide it, and then Erin stuck all of the skewers into the block. It may have been easier to stick them in as she went, because she did stab herself several times putting the fruit on the skewers with forest of sharp skewers around. It worked out though.

After a while, it started to look pretty much like the picture.

And it looked great with the rest of our spread.

If you want to try making one of these, basically all you need is a LOT of grapes (they go on almost every stick), some pineapple, honeydew, and strawberries. You’re welcome to copy off of our picture! If you come up with a different but cute arrangement send me the photos. I would love to see them!

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