Fun Fruit Desserts for a Picnic ~ These fruit presentation ideas are sure to be hit at any picnic. Easy to assemble and completely Earth friendly you can feel good that everything but the popsicle stick is edible—that is unless you are a reincarnation of my childhood dog who actually ate one.
Fruit Desserts for a Picnic
Clockwise: 1. Fruit Salad in Ice Cream Cones 2. Nectarine Tart 3. Fruit Pops 4. Creme Filled Strawberries
This post is a round-up of some previous posts I did last spring and summer. I actually made some Mixed Berry Mini Pies as my contribution for the Earth Day Virtual Picnic that me and several other bloggers are participating in today, but they were an epic failure. I mean EPIC.
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Fruit Pops ~ Get crafty for a pure and simple summer fruit pop that requires no special machine and no freeze time.
Cantaloupe and Watermelon Fruit Pops
Grab your favorite fruit, cookie cutter and some popsicle sticks and get ready to be the neighborhood hero.
These are really so simple and the idea came to me when I was making fruit kebabs for my little guy and his friends. What kid doesn’t like a popsicle, right? Of course my 3-year-old liked them even more because he helped make them and was so proud to show them off to his buddies.
So did I fool the other kids? I’m not sure, but not one of them balked or blinked when they realized it was fruit and not the traditional sugar laden variation of a popsicle. Although trying to pull that off with kids over the age of 3 might be a little tougher.
A few notes:
- Use metal cutters over plastic cutters. You need a thinner sharper edge that metal ones have over the plastic variations.
- You can pre-cut the fruit into their chosen shapes, but insert the popsicle sticks prior to serving or they will become soggy.
- Avoid overly ripe fruit, as they will get mangled when you try to cut them with a cookie cutter.
- Fibrous fruits such as mangoes and pineapples do not work well as they require the sharp edge of a knife for cutting.
