How to Design a Fruit Tray

Fresh fruit is a welcome addition to any potluck meal, buffet or seated dinner. Fruit trays are ideal for party snacking and make impressive centerpieces on any table. The key to assembling a beautiful, appetizing fruit platter is to get creative with colors, shapes, textures and tastes. Choose fruits that you love and combine flavors to create a dish that pleases everyone. This recipe serves about 25 people. Add this to my Recipe Box.

Instructions

1

Wash and dry all of your fruit thoroughly.

2

Slice open the honeydew melon and remove the seeds. Using your melon-baller tool, cut small melon balls out of the entire honeydew.

3

Slice open the watermelon and, using the melon baller, cut ball-shaped pieces out of the watermelon. Set aside the watermelon balls.

4

Remove the stems from the strawberries and discard. Slice each strawberry in half and set aside.

5

Pour the blueberries into the ramekin, or small bowl, and place it in the center of the tray. You will build the tray around this centerpiece.

6

Peel the kiwis and cut into thin slices. Set aside.

7

Divide the tray area into quarters using your kiwi slices. Lay the slices, one in front of the next, along each dividing line. You will now have four roughly triangular-shaped areas.

8

Cut up the pineapple and pile it into the top quadrant of the tray. Arrange the fruit tidily, piling it up generously and keeping in between the kiwi lines.

9

Move to the next quadrant, to the right of the pineapple, and place the strawberries onto the tray. Pile the strawberries up neatly.

10

Place the honeydew melon balls onto the tray in the bottom quadrant, keeping the balls neatly tucked between the kiwi lines.

11

Add the watermelon to the tray, piling the fruit high. Your tray will now be full of colorful fruit circling a bowl of blueberries.