Not everyone is a fan of fresh bouquets of flowers; after all, they don't last long, but they are still often expensive. A wonderful alternative, which is much more useful and can also be made yourself, is a bouquet of fruit: an edible bouquet of flowers, so to speak.
If you would like to make a fruit bouquet yourself, you can use any fruit (think of the recipient's favorite fruit) and also combine it with one or two flowers as decorative filling material. Would you like some inspiration?
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Whole or sliced fruit?
You can choose both variants. Which one is better depends on how much time before the occasion you can prepare the gift. Cut fruit dries quickly and is therefore best made into a bouquet just a few hours before giving as a gift. Cut fruit is also more practical as a table decoration for the table so that everyone can help themselves at any time.
A few instructions for interestingly cut fruits and vegetablescan be found here.
Whole fruit can be made into a bouquet a few days in advance. The less you hurt it, the longer it will last. However, since it is skewered on wooden skewers, it is advisable to wait as long as possible.
Cool tip for long shelf life
Of course, even if you have waited as long as possible to produce it, the recipient may not be able to eat the fruit in time. For fruits like apples and pears, piercing them with a wooden skewer isn't a big deal and won't hasten spoilage much. However, juicier types of fruit could rot more quickly.
The perfect solution:candied fruit! You haveFruit skewers made from smaller pieces of fruitplanned, you can candied them, which allows you to significantly extend their shelf life.
How you can make a fruit bouquet yourself
What do you need to make an edible bouquet?
- any types of fruit
- Filling material as desired, such as stems with leaves or edible herbs or cabbage, and preferably a few flowers
- Shish kebab skewers
- Floral foam or ribbon to tie together
- Flower paper/baking paper/gift foil or gift basket for a fruit arrangement
Variable instructions: Design according to your own ideas
- Place each fruit on a wooden skewer. You can also make fruit skewers using several pieces of fruit.
- Take the individual skewers, which imitate the flower stems and flowers of the classic flower bouquet, together. You can add a little green here and there: eucalyptus or edible herbs such as parsley or dill work well.
- If you are happy with the composition, tie everything together.
Alternatively, you can fill a container (e.g. gift basket or box) with floral foam and distribute the skewers in it.
Cool tip:You can also dip some of the fruits in liquid chocolate beforehand and in this way add special (and above all delicious) accents to the bouquet.
How about faces like that?Idea for children's fruit plate?
Fill paper cones
This variant is also easy to access. If you make this fruit bouquet yourself, do not skewer the fruit directly, but pack it in paper cones.
- Buy ready-made paper cones for food (or make your own out of baking paper).
- Cut off the tip and hot glue a wooden skewer onto it.
- Prepare the fruit by cutting it into bite-sized pieces.
- Place the skewers with the cones in a glass or vase.
- Fill them with the pieces of fruit.
- Scatter edible greens around it to make the fruit bouquet look more lush. Mint stems are good and go well with fruit.
Strawberries and oranges
A quick last minute idea is this fruit bouquet with oranges and strawberries. This is how you proceed if you make the fruit bouquet yourself:
- Cut the oranges in a zigzag pattern all around and then separate the two jagged halves from each other.
- Insert a skewer through an orange half and then a strawberry on top (tip side up).
- Also prepare some strawberry skewers without oranges to fill in any gaps.
- Place a small decorative glass in a slightly larger one and fill the space with orange slices. You can also vary it with lemon or lime slices.
- Then distribute the fruit skewers in the smaller glass and decorate the spaces in between with any greenery.
- Tie a pretty ribbon around the jar. Complete!
Fancy a fruit platter?Take a look here.
Strawberries, apples and grapes wrapped in cabbage leaves
Skewers of strawberries, pineapple and olives
Sliced pomegranate, apples, grapes, eucalyptus and florets
Arrange cut fruit in a pot
Watermelon rind as a container for the fruit bouquet
Make your own fruit bouquet and refine it with cake pops and chocolate fruits
Tie skewered lemons together and combine with other fruits in a bowl
Cut flowers and leaves out of fruit
Make your own fruit bouquet for a nice gift idea
Design buckets with cabbage and fruits
