Edible Thanksgiving Centerpieces
The Kitchen hosts create beautiful and edible centerpieces to dress up your Thanksgiving table.
Appetizer Centerpiece Using a Cutting Board
What you'll need:
- Decorative branches
- Bowls of olives
- Bowl of nuts
- Wedges of cheese
- Rosemary sprigs
- Bay leaves
- Cheese straws
- Fig and prosciutto flowers
- 2 baguette boards
How to: Arrange the decorative branches, olives, nuts, cheese wedges, rosemary sprigs, bay leaves, cheese straws and fig and prosciutto flowers on the baguette boards.
Fig and Prosciutto Flowers
What you'll need:
- Figs
- Prosciutto slices
How to:
- Quarter the figs without cutting through the bottom.
- Roll the slices of prosciutto into flower shapes.
- Place a prosciutto flower inside each fig.
Dessert Centerpiece Using a Cake Stand
What you'll need:
- 2 cake stands (different sizes)
- Large round plate
- Red Layer: Pomegranate, red macarons, apples, dried cranberries, red or maroon chrysanthemums
- Orange Layer: Orange shortbread cookies, orange petit fours, orange macarons, dried mangoes, dried apricots, clementines, orange chrysanthemums
- Yellow Layer: Lemon shortbread cookies, yellow petit fours, lemon vase
How to:
- Stack the cake stands on top of each other on the plate.
- Add the red fruit, desserts and flowers to the bottom tier.
- Add the orange fruit, desserts and flowers to the middle tier.
- Add the yellow fruit and desserts to the top tier.
- Place the lemon vase on top.
Lemon Vase
What you'll need:
- Lemon
- Paring knife
- Yellow chrysanthemums
How to:
- Hollow out the lemon with a paring knife.
- Place the yellow chrysanthemum bunch inside the lemon.