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For an easy fruit platter idea everyone will love that doubles as a delicious dessert, check out these Easy Fruit Carrots.
They are a perfect addition to your Spring fruit trays and make an excellent snack.
The recipe calls for two types of melon topped with dark chocolate for a yummy, tasty treat you can make in advance and store chilled until it’s ready to serve.
Feel free to replace the melon with other fruits or vegetables: papaya, nectarine, persimmon, kiwi, pear and for a veggie version use carrots, orange peppers, cucumber, celery and avocado.
Easy Fruit Carrots
Ingredients
- 4 slices of cantaloupe
- 1 slice of Galia melon
- 100 grams dark chocolate
- 14 candy eyes
- piping utensil / bag
- large carrot cookie cutter
- canapé sticks
Instructions
- Slice the cantaloupe and Galia melon into thick pieces of 1.5 cm (0.6 inch).
- Shape the carrot out of cantaloupe using a carrot cookie cutter.
- Cut the top leafy part of the carrot out of Galia melon.
- Place the Galia melon leaves on top of the cantaloupe carrot and push a canapé stick through to hold the two parts together.
- Melt the dark chocolate.
- Add the chocolate to a piping utensil / bag.
- Pipe the outline of the fruit carrot with chocolate, and make a few rounded curves on the front of the carrot.
- Top with candy eyes.
- Allow to set.
- Serve.
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Notes
I used two different cookie cutters for the fruit carrots since I try to use what I have. However, the easiest way to make the carrots is to get your hands on a large carrot cookie cutter or cut them by hand.
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