Cascading Fruit Centerpiece Recipe
- Preparing Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Served Person: 36
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon grated orange peel
- 1 medium lemon
- 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
- 1 pound fresh strawberries
- 1 fresh pineapple
- 1 large navel orange
- 1/4 cup flaked coconut toasted
- 2 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese softened
- pineapple ginger dip:
- 5 tablespoons unsweetened pineapple juice
- 1-1/2 to 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- centerpiece:
- 1 large grapefruit
- 8 styrofoam rounds (four 10 inches x 1 inch four 6 inches x 1 inch)
- 2 wooden dowels (one 8 inches x 1/4 inch one 4-1/2 inches x 1/4 inch)
- floral metal greening pins
- 3 to 5 pounds seedless green grapes
- 3 to 5 pounds seedless red grapes
- silk flowers with leaves
- 3 cups yogurt of your choice
- Carbohydrate 6.91534592157629 g
- Cholesterol 0 mg
- Fat 0.213916784876652 g
- Fiber 0.897156448517449 g
- Protein 0.344578691734749 g
- Saturated Fat 0.123841835607728 g
- Serving Size 1 1 serving (54g)
- Sodium 1.85892810789462 mg
- Sugar 6.01818947305884 g
- Trans Fat 0.0362930259625055 g
- Calories 28 calories
Directions In a small mixing bowl, combine the first six ingredients. Stir in coconut. Chill until serving. Cut off pineapple top with a fourth of the pineapple attached; set aside. For dip bowl, cut a third from bottom of pineapple; remove fruit, leaving a 1/2-in. shell. Remove peel from center section of pineapple; core and cut pineapple into chunks. Cut the grapefruit, orange and lemon in half widthwise. Remove pulp from one half of each; set aside. (Save the remaining grapefruit, orange and lemon halves for another use.) Stack two 10-in. Styrofoam rounds and two 6-in. rounds; cover each stack with heavy-duty foil. Repeat with remaining rounds. On a 19-in. x 15-in. platter, pile the stacks on top of each other, staggering them and anchoring with dowels. Place pineapple top on the top circle; position lemon, orange and grapefruit cups on other circles. Place pineapple bowl on platter. With greening pins, attach clusters of grapes onto circles. Randomly add strawberries, pineapple chunks and more grapes to cover the foil and platter. Decorate with silk flowers. Just before serving, fill pineapple bowl with pineapple ginger dip. Fill lemon, orange and grapefruit cups with yogurt. Yield: 1 fruit centerpiece. Originally published as Cascading Fruit Centerpiece in Taste of Home October/November 2007, p12 Print Add to Recipe Box Email a Friend
