From-scratch Easter Fruit Platter

An Easter Fruit Platter Is bright, fresh, and full of festive charm. This Easter fruit tray is a lighter and eye-catching addition to your holiday table. Shaped like an adorable bunny, it features an assortment of colorful fruits like pineapple, berries, and kiwi.

Easter Fruit Platter

This Easter bunny fruit tray is fun to assemble and even more fun to eat, paired with a creamy cheese fruit dip. The dip is sweet, smooth, and creamy, well-balanced for pairing with all types of fruit. Well-balanced for Easter brunch!

Ingredients:

• Pineapple – You could also use banana slices or all apples for the bunny face.
• Blueberries – You can use all blueberries or a mixed berry blend.
• Strawberries – You could replace the strawberries with extra raspberries or red grapes.
• Blackberries – Get creative and use any fruit that you have on hand.
• Raspberries – Replace with extra strawberries or use pink dragonfruit.
• Kiwi – Green grapes are a great substitute for the kiwi.
• Apple – Use any apple type. Red satisfying is a sweet treat or granny smith is more sour.
• Lemon juice – This helps to keep the apples from browning.
• Cream cheese – You could also use mascarpone cheese.
• Marshmallow fluff
• Almond extract – You could substitute vanilla extract for the almond extract.

Instructions:

Recipe Tips

Consider using other fruit options and fruit shapes that your kids or toddlers enjoy, such as veggies, pears, cantaloupe, orange slices, watermelon, honeydew melon, or any kind of melon for this fruit salad Easter dessert.

Do we have to use fresh fruit, or can we use canned or frozen?

Fresh fruit is best for this recipe. You can use canned or frozen fruit, but make sure the fruit is drained well, patted dry, and thawed completely. This will help reduce the amount of liquid that the fruit releases onto the platter.

Make the bunny face. On a large platter, use the pineapple chunks to make the face of the bunny by forming 2 small round piles south of 1 large round pile.

Outline the ears. Outline the large bunny ears north of the large round pile.

Create a background. Form the eyes using blueberries. Fill in the outline of the face and between the ears with blueberries and blackberries.

Easter Fruit Tray

Finish the ears. Fill in the middle part of the ears with raspberries. Next, fill in the inner part of the ears and use the rest under the bunny’s face (for a background). Strawberry chunks can be placed in the center of the face under the eyes, as in the bunny’s nose.

Detail the ears. Using the kiwi, outline the center of the ears between the raspberries and the pineapples.

Make whiskers and teeth. Lastly, peel and slice half of your apple and dice the other half. Toss all of the apple pieces in a bowl with lemon juice to prevent browning. Use slices of apple to cut long whiskers for the bunny face. Use diced apples to outline the bunny eyes.

Make the Fruit Dip – With just three ingredients, this cream cheese fruit dip recipe is well-balanced for a fresh fruit platter, as well as cookies, vanilla wafers, graham crackers, and other snacks. Here is the full recipe for the fruit dip.

In a medium bowl, using a hand electric mixer or stand mixer, blend the cream cheese, marshmallow fluff, and almond extract at medium speed until smooth and soft.

Easter Fruit Platter Recipe