- 1). Choose your fruits so that the colors compliment one another. You don't want an all orange tray. Putting touches of green and red and yellow together can make a striking combination. The addition of blueberries or grapes can really make that fruit tray pop.
- 2). Purchase seasonal fruits, as they are generally more flavorful. Melons and berries are best in the summer, while apples and other crisp fruits like pears stand up better in the fall. Sections of oranges and sliced bananas are good at any time of the year, as are pineapples, but always use fresh rather than canned pineapple.
- 3). Cut larger fruit into bite-sized pieces. Cut the pineapple in half lengthwise and scoop out the flesh, leaving half of the skin intact with the leaves still on it. Then you can lay the empty pineapple half on its side, filled with blueberries, purple grapes, or figs, and use it as the centerpiece of the tray.
- 4). Imagine a rainbow. You can easily arrange your colors so that they correspond to the colors of the rainbow, making a very pretty tray. Or, alternate colors by putting darker fruits such as red apples and Anjou pears next to the light yellow pineapple. Arrange your tray in stripes so that no two fruits of the same color are next to one another.
- 5). Be creative. There are no hard and fast rules for arranging fruit trays; you are limited only by your imagination. Think outside the box and you will come up with some very interesting designs for the fruit. Try thinking of the fruit not as food, but as paint or sculpture, and that may get your creative juices flowing.
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