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This is such a fun and healthy Thanksgiving appetizer – make a turkey shaped fruit platter!
Use a pear for the body, baby carrots for the beak, wings, legs then add red and green grapes, pistachios, banana chips, and chocolate covered raisins. Plus there are so many other fruit and nut options listed!
What You’ll Need
- Serving tray or platter (I round a large white round platter)
- half of a pear
- 2 baby carrots
- candy eye balls
- pistachios
- red grapes
- green grapes
- banana chips
- chocolate covered raisins
Want more fruit & nut options?
More fruit ideas
- apple slices
- raspberries
- blueberries
- strawberries
- kiwi slices
- mandrain oranges
- pineapple pieces
- cantaloupe pieces
- dried cherries
More nut / finger foods
- peanuts
- almonds
- pecans
- walnuts
- pretzels
How to make a turkey thanksgiving fruit platter
Cut the pear in half and place in the center of a platter.
Cut out the beak, wings, and legs from baby carrots using a sharp knife.
Add the beak and wings to the pear using toothpicks. Place the turkey carrot legs at the bottom of the pear.
Use a dab of honey to secure the candy eye balls to the pear.
Arrange the pistachios around the pear.
Arrange red grapes.
Arrange green grapes.
Arrange banana chips.
Arrange red grapes.
Arrange chocolate covered raisins.
Arrange green grapes.
Fill in the rows with extra fruit / snacks so it looks fuller. Serve!
Make a veggie platter
Turn this into a turkey veggie platter by using cucumber slices for the body. Use cherry tomatoes, sliced cucumber, sliced carrots, broccoli, cauliflower for the feathers.
This is the perfect appetizer to munch on before Thanksgiving dinner!
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Turkey Fruit Platter
Ingredients
- Serving tray or platter, I round a large white round platter
- half of a pear
- 2 baby carrots
- 2 candy eye balls
- pistachios
- red grapes
- green grapes
- banana chips
- chocolate covered raisins
Instructions
- Cut the pear in half and place in the center of a platter.
- Cut out the beak, wings, and legs from baby carrots using a sharp knife.
- Add the beak and wings to the pear using toothpicks. Place the turkey carrot legs at the bottom of the pear.
- Use a dab of honey to secure the candy eye balls to the pear.
- Arrange the pistachios around the pear.
- Arrange red grapes.
- Arrange green grapes.
- Arrange banana chips.
- Arrange red grapes.
- Arrange chocolate covered raisins.
- Arrange green grapes.
- Fill in the rows with extra fruit / snacks to make it look fuller. Serve!
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Notes
Want more fruit & nut options? Try these..
- apple slices
- raspberries
- blueberries
- strawberries
- kiwi slices
- mandrain oranges
- pineapple pieces
- cantaloupe pieces
- dried cherries
- peanuts
- almonds
- pecans
- walnuts
- pretzels
I totally get that you want to relax on Thanksgiving morning. That’s what holidays are for, right? You can always run that mile another day! :) This turkey fruit platter is the cutest! Pinned!
I like your thinking Kristine, I’ll save the mile for… after Christmas :)
My kids would love this! They love fruit plates. Very good idea! Pining it.
And parents can love them too since their healthy!
Hi there! I followed you over from #SITSBlogging. This is adorable! Will definitely be adding this to my menu this month!
Oh yay!! Hope you enjoy it!
I wouldn’t want to get up early and run on Thanksgiving day either! ;) I vote for staying in and devouring this super adorbs turkey instead!
That would be a great alternative since it’s healthy :) but I am sure I would follow it up with a donut!!
I love this idea. It’s such a great visual presentation. I know my boys would love to compete at who could eat the most of the turkey. Brilliant!
Oh! That sounds like fun and its healthy!!
Don’t the apples and bananas turn brown sitting on the platter untreated?
Hi Peg! If you plan on eating the fruit from the platter, I wouldn’t worry about treating the apples and bananas – hopefully your guests will gobble it up!
This is so cute!
Thank you Jenna!
I have no doubt my menagerie would love this on Turkey Day, Beth – Pinned!
Hahahaa, I had to look that word up, but I bet they would like it for sure!
I don’t normally go for this kind of thing, (food arranged like animals or whatever) I’m in the UK for starters and we don’t have Thanksgiving, but this is just so cute I find myself loving it!
Aww, yay!!! Well, I am glad I convinced you to like it!
This is so adorable.
Thank you Debbie! :)