{Tutorial} Making and Fruit (Edible) Arrangment

I love the Edible Arrangement company, I love the fact that it looks like a flower arrangement only it gets puts to a tastefully good use! The only problem is the price, they can get $$$$. Making them unfortunately isn't "cheap" either, it really depends on the season on the fruits you want to include.

 

When picking fruit for the arrangement pick fruits that won't brown when exposed, bananas and apples are a great example of this. BUT if you have to have them coat them in chocolate, candy, caramel, anything as long as it protect the fruit from the oxygen.

 

What you'll need

food prep gloves

paring knife

Your favorite knife

*Garden sheers (don't use your actual garden seers, buy a new pair and keep it for kitchen use)

cutting board

cookie cutters

wooden skewers ( I like the skinner ones)

container (vase, cup, bucket...)

Kale

cabbage

fruits

*Potato wavy cutter (mine is by pampered chef)

*not necessary but extremely handy

 

READY!!!!

1.) First wash and prepare your container, wash your fruit, cabbage, kale... (DUH)         

2.) Take your cabbage and trim the sides so that it will fit VERY TIGHTLY inside you container.        

  

3.) Stuff Kale in all the voids so the you have a nice green border                                                              `

 

 

 4.) Cut up all of your fruit. You don't have to peel the pineapple, just cut it into 1/2 - 3/4 thick slices. Do this with the Fruit you want to cut with the the cookie cutters. The cantaloupe, watermelon, or any other fruit you will cut in wedges go ahead and do that now. If you are going to dip any fruit in chocolate do it now put it on a skewer put in onto Styrofoam or an extra vase with the left over cabbage and put it in the fridge to harden.

 

Sometimes you'll need to trace the cookie to get a clean "hairless" cut.

Not shown: grapes are awesome to string on a stick for decor

5.) Decide how high you want your arrangement to go and what your center will be. The higher the more fruit you'll need.

 

 

 6.) Start working from the center out. if you don't the skewers will start to bump into each other making very difficult to push in. As you get closer to the edge trim down the sticks with the sheers so you can get a much fruit in the little "cracks" as possible.

7.) When you have decided you are happy with your arrangement. Add Kale to the open areas to hide the skewers. Some you will need to use another skewer to push down.  Voila! you're done, unless you want to bag it!