Fall fruits: Riesling Baked Pears and Spooky Fruit Faces

Spooky Fruit Faces

From Carolyn Malcoun on the EatingWell blog

To create a Jack-Orange-Lantern 

1. Cut off the top of an orange with a serrated knife. Use a melon baller to scoop out the fruit.
2. Cut out a face and let kids fill the orange shell with dried cranberries, blueberries and whole almonds.
3. Press a small piece of cinnamon stick into the orange “lid” to make a stem.

To create Apple Cats and Pear Witches

1. Use the point of a knife to cut into the fruit where ears, eyes, noses and hats or whiskers should be.
2. Kids can then press dried fruits and nuts into the cuts. Apple Cats can have dried apricots or prunes for ears, whole almonds for eyes, strips of fruit leather or slivered almonds for whiskers, and a dried blueberry or raisin for a nose. For a Pear Witch, use fruit leather rolled into a cone for a hat, a whole slice of dried apple for the brim, slivered almonds for hair, a cashew for a nose, raisins for eyes and a strip of prune for a mouth.

Pictures of the Spooky Fruit Faces can be seen here.

Lauren Bocskocsky is a Project Manger at Mom Central and a recent graduate of Bentley University.

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