How to Make an Edible Arrangement

Edible arrangements can accent make a buffet table look nice as well as serve as a one of the items your guest can eat. Making one isn't as hard as you might think it is. What you will need is a scalloped metal cookie cutter, a melon baller, wooden skewers, a paring knife, a vase, styrophome, floral tape, some "greenery" and fruit.

Let's start with making a rose bouquet, take strawberries and cut an "x" on the pointed end, when you're done with that place the wooden skewer in the strawberry rounded side down so that the pointed end is on the top, where you have cut the "x". Once you have done that, next take floral tape and tape up the skewer, making sure that wood is not exposed. As you tape the skewer, you want to insert here and there the "greenery"; this can vary from lettuce, to artificial, that you taken from fake flowers. I personally like to use the artificial ones because it helps create a more "real" look. After you wrapped your last skewer, time to arrange the flowers, place the styrophome at the bottom the vase, and insert the flowers. To make the look really nice, get some marshmallow cream
Put in a pastry bag with a small tip, or get some decorators gel in white. Place a small drop inside the strawberry, meaning open the strawberry, where you cut the "x" with the tip of the bag and squeeze a drop out, make sure it is enough to keep the strawberry open a bit. When you're done you just created a rose bouquet.

Next we will make a daisy. To do this, you need a fresh pineapple, on the thicker side, use a small cookie cutter, or for the more creative just cut out a daisy with the pairing knife, but your find the cookie cutter is much simpler to use. After you cut the daisies, take your melon baller and make balls from honeydew or cantaloupe. We will attach the balls to the petals now. Using a tooth pick break them in half, push the tooth pick through the back the petals in the center. You will place the ball on the toothpick, making sure you do not go through the ball. In other words no tooth pick should show. Holding the "flower" up rights insert your wooden skewer, and tape it up like you did the roses.

To make a nice decorative accent take grapes or blueberries, through grapes are easier to work with, and skewer between 5-6 on a skewer, and just tape, do not add greens to this. Add them to your vase. And "arrange your flowers."