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This fun-filled and healthy Thanksgiving platter uses various fruits and vegetables to create Pear Drumsticks, Kiwi Pilgrims, Blackberry Acorns, Cantaloupe Autumn Leaves and Pear & Kiwi Turkeys.
Thanksgiving Feast Platter
Ingredients
- 3 pears
- 2 slices of cantaloupe
- 9 blackberries
- 3 pretzels, sticks
- a piece of red apple peel
- 1 yellow pepper
- 1 slice of mango
- 4 kiwis
- 1 small carrot
- 26 candy eyes
- 100 grams white chocolate
- 6 hazelnuts
- leaf cookie cutter
- flower cookie cutter
- curved sprinkles
- toothpick
- small round cookie cutter
- parchment paper
- small flower cookie cutter
- sprinkles
Instructions
- Drumstick instructions:
- Trim the bottom stalk off the pear.
- Make a hole with a metal straw where the stalk used to be.
- Melt the white chocolate.
- Once the chocolate has melted, insert the pretzel stick and make sure it’s covered in chocolate.
- Remove the stick using a fork and shake off the excess chocolate.
- Place the stick on parchment paper.
- Dip the round sprinkles or hazelnuts into the chocolate, and place them on the bottom of the pretzel stick, one on each side.
- Allow to harden.
- Once set, insert the stick into the bottom of the pear.
- Top with candy eyes and the curved sprinkle for the mouth. (you can use edible glue or some of the melted white chocolate to make it all stick).
- Kiwi pilgrims instructions:
- Halve a kiwi lengthwise.
- Use a knife to cut the outline of the hat.
- Melt the white chocolate.
- Using a toothpick, trace the hat band with the chocolate.
- Top with a thin piece of mango, shaped as a rectangle (be sure to dab it dry with a piece of kitchen towel, so it will stick properly to the white chocolate).
- Kiwi Turkeys instructions:
- Peel the kiwi (I use a potato peeler).
- Use the flower cookie cutter to make the carrot feathers. Secure with toothpicks.
- Cut apple peel into a teardrop shape for the wattle (the red bit under the beak).
- Make a triangle out of yellow pepper for the beak.
- Assemble the turkey and top it with candy eyes.
- Pear Turkeys instructions:
- Halve the pear.
- Use the round cutter to make carrot and yellow pepper ‘feathers’. Secure with toothpicks.
- Make the feet using a small flower cookie cutter. Trim off the bottom with the round cutter.
- Cut a triangle out of the carrot for the beak.
- Make the wattle out of apple peel.
- Assemble the turkey and top it with candy eyes. You can secure the feet, beak and eyes using edible glue or melted white chocolate.
- Blackberry Acorns instructions:
- Dip blackberries in melted white chocolate. Allow to set and dip again.
- Top with a sprinkle.
- Cantaloupe Leaves instructions:
- Slice the cantaloupe thinly.
- Use a leaf cutter to shape the leaves.
Notes
Be sure to remove the toothpicks before eating.
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