Santa Fruit Tray
A festive and healthy Santa-themed fruit tray perfect for Christmas parties. This edible centerpiece features strawberries, marshmallows, and cookies arranged to resemble Santa's face and hat.
Equipment
- rectangular rimmed wood board or tray (about 18” x 12”)
- round rimmed plate (about 8” in diameter)
Ingredients
For Santa's Face
- 1 (16 ounce) container vanilla frosting
- 1 cup blackberries
- 1 cup raspberries
- 30 strawberries, stems removed
- 30 regular size marshmallows
- 2 cups mini marshmallows
For Decoration
- 8 gingerbread people cookies
- 20 mini tree-shaped sugar cookies
- 3 cups green grapes
Instructions
- Evenly spread the frosting onto a round plate with a lip around the edge. Place the plate in the center of the board.
- Press 2 large blackberries for Santa’s eyes, a raspberry for the nose, and 4 raspberries for the smile onto the frosting.
- Arrange the strawberries, starting from the top of the plate up to the top-right corner of the board to look like Santa’s hat. Place a regular marshmallow at the very top of the hat.
- Add a line of 5 regular marshmallows to the top edge of the plate to complete Santa’s hat.
- Arrange the remaining regular marshmallows with mini marshmallows on top for Santa’s beard, mustache, and eyebrows, leaving space at the bottom of the board for the belt.
- Place the remaining blackberries along the bottom of the board with two raspberries in the center to look like Santa’s belt.
- Divide the remaining raspberries and place them on either side of Santa’s marshmallow beard, filling in from the blackberries up to a third of the board.
- Place 4 gingerbread people cookies on either side of Santa’s face, just above the raspberries.
- Divide the mini tree cookies and arrange half on one side of Santa’s hat and half of the other side, just above the gingerbread people cookies.
- Fill in the top third of the board, around Santa’s hat, with the green grapes.
Notes
This fruit tray is best assembled just before serving to keep the marshmallows fresh. You can substitute other fruits or cookies to match your preferences.