Jack-O-Lantern Orange Fruit Cup | What’s Cookin’ Italian Style Cuisine

Not only can these be filled with healthy fruits, but we have some fantastic alternative filling suggestions plus substituting vegetables to make it a spooktacular meal.

Simple kitchen tools can create these fun-filled oranges or even bell colorful peppers to start the most creative themes for your favorite holiday and we have several ideas to try below.

Whether you’re a fruit, ambrosia salad, or enjoy an orange-flavored custard dessert, we will have you covered with all of the delicious creative ideas to try.

Creative Carvings for Fruits and Vegetables

The fun thing about carving out fruits and vegetables is you can really fill them with anything you prefer not just fruits.

The holidays are so busy and using colorful fruits and vegetables will surely decorate the holiday-themed tables that will impress your friends, and family for any social gathering.

Just keep in mind, fill them with what your family likes, and find it easy to carve fresh fruits and vegetables that match the colors of the holiday, your table will be spectacular and delicious!

Tips and Suggestions for Carving Fruits and Vegetables

• use a serrated knife for craving the face
• colorful bell peppers can be carved to a holiday theme and filled with chicken, ham, tuna or egg salad
• make an ambrosia salad and fill the pumpkin cups
• blot fruits with extra water and dry them with paper towels before filling
• do not use frozen fruits they contain too much water
• brush apples, pears, or bananas with orange or lemon juice to prevent browning
• chopped or finely diced fruits to fill the size of your fruit cups so they fit easily

Creative Holiday Food Art Ideas:

1. Patriotic Carved Red Apples: red, white, and blue fruits (blueberries, blue grapes, blackberries, strawberries, cherries, red raspberries, watermelon, and pineapple are all good choices
2. Christmas: carve a small round watermelon with snowflake shapes, carve a  baked acorn squash, fill red or green pears: fruits suggestions colorful kiwi,  strawberries, cherries, red raspberries, and watermelon are good choices)Fill Red and Green Bell peppers with savory salad fillings. Carve the outside in snowflake patterns
3. Easter Green Pears Fruit Cups: lighter colors yellow, blue, orange (cantaloupe, peaches, mango, oranges, pineapple, rainier cherries)
4. Thanksgiving Oranges Carved: or left uncarved: yellow, orange, and darker fruits (pineapple, melons. apples, mango, oranges, bosc pears) Carve orange bell peppers and fill with savory fillings
5. Halloween Oranges as shown Jack-O Lanterns: orange, yellow, and dark fruits (pineapple, melons. apples, mango, blood oranges, pears, or carve and fill with savory filling orange bell peppers
6. St. Patrick’s Day Carved Green Pears: add pineapple and green grapes. and kiwi cut into shamrock shapes or carved green bell peppers and filled with savory salad fillings
7. See all fruit list suggestions below

Fruits, Vegetables Sweet or Savory Filling Suggestions:

1. green grapes red grapes blue grapes 
2. sliced plums
3. sliced peaches
4. pear slices
5. fresh cherry pits were removed and sliced
6. firm bananas soaked in lemon juice and sliced
7. sliced apples soaked in lemon juice
8. large navel orange or mandarin oranges
9. raspberries
10. blackberries
11. boysenberries
12. starfruit
13. watermelon, or other melon like cantaloupe or honeydew
14. pineapple fresh and cut the long way
15. diced strawberries
16. mango
17. papaya
18. fill with canned fruit cocktail drained
19. fill with sour cream and chopped oranges sweetened with powdered sugar
20. add any fruits to whipped cream or whipped cream cheese and fill
21. fill oranges with a vanilla pudding and mandarin chopped oranges
22. fill with Ambrosia Salad
23. fill  oranges or bell peppers with chicken salad
24. fill with ham salad
25. make one of your favorite dips fill the oranges and serve with assorted crackers and dips
26. fill with cubes of cheese or a cream cheese herb-seasoned dip
27. fill a bell pepper with bean dip 

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Carve and Scoop Out a Sugar Pie Pumpkin

If you prefer a large amount of savory fillings to feed a crowd, then the pumpkin carved and filled is the easiest way to go.

This is a fun centerpiece and conversation piece just use a carved pumpkin then line the pumpkin with a cup to fit inside and fill it with whatever you like then you can still bake the pumpkin to use for making a pie!

Keeping the food safe is important so be sure to keep dips and savory filling cold and just use the pumpkin as a serving bowl.

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Jack-O-Lantern Orange Fruit Cup

Jack-O-Lantern Orange Fruit Cups are the perfect spooky treats to serve and also make a delicious centerpiece on your holiday tables!

Inactive time: 25 MinTotal time: 25 Min

Ingredients

• 8 Navel Oranges (tops sliced off and scooped out)
• Fruits of choice ( around 2 cups of diced fruit)
• More Filling Suggestions:
• Ambrosia salad
• Fruit Cocktail (canned and drained) or another drained canned fruit your prefer
• For fresh fruits, suggestions refer to the notes below
• For savory filling suggestions see the see notes below
• Garnish Suggestions: fresh mint, cinnamon sugar, toasted pumpkin seeds, maraschino cherries, whipped cream, a drizzle of fruit puree, or any flavored ice cream topping
• Note: if carving peppers, slice off the top, remove the seeds, and proceed to stuff with a savory salad filling you prefer

Instructions

1. Slice off the tops of the oranges.
2. Choose any fresh fruits you prefer canned
3. Dice the fruits if fresh into small pieces and place them in a bowl.
4. Note: If using a fruit like bananas or apples brush each piece of the fruit with orange or lemon juice to keep from browning.
5. I use a serrated edge knife to remove the pulp then the back of a teaspoon to remove it from the cavity of the orange.
6. Note: for peppers or other vegetables, slice off the top and remove seeds.
7. Using a sharp knife carve out the eyes and nose and if you have very large oranges you can make the teeth, I did smaller oranges and skipped the teeth.
8. Fill and garnish if you wish with fresh herbs a drizzle of fruit puree, whipped cream, cinnamon sugar, candied nuts, or pumpkin seeds.

Notes

Tips and Suggestions for Carving Fruits and Vegetables

• use a serrated knife for craving the face
• colorful bell peppers can be carved to a holiday theme and filled with chicken, ham, tuna, or egg salad
• make an ambrosia salad and fill the pumpkin cups
• blot fruits with extra water and dry them with paper towels before filling
• do not use frozen fruits they contain too much water
• brush apples, pears, or bananas with orange or lemon juice to prevent browning
• chopped or finely diced fruits to fill the size of your fruit cups so they fit easily

Creative Holiday Food Art Ideas

1. Patriotic Carved Red Apples: red, white, and blue fruits (blueberries, blue grapes, blackberries, strawberries, cherries, red raspberries, watermelon, and pineapple are all good choices
2. Christmas: carve a small round watermelon with snowflake shapes, carve a baked acorn squash, fill red or green pears: fruits suggestions colorful kiwi, strawberries, cherries, red raspberries, and watermelon are good choices)Fill Red and Green Bell peppers with savory salad fillings. Carve the outside in snowflake patterns
3. Easter Green Pears Fruit Cups: lighter colors yellow, blue, orange (cantaloupe, peaches, mango, oranges, pineapple, rainier cherries)
4. Thanksgiving Oranges Carved: or left uncarved: yellow, orange, and darker fruits (pineapple, melons. apples, mango, oranges, bosc pears) Carve orange bell peppers and fill with savory fillings
5. Halloween Oranges as shown Jack-O Lanterns: orange, yellow, and dark fruits (pineapple, melons. apples, mango, blood oranges, pears, or carve and fill with savory filling orange bell peppers
6. St. Patrick’s Day Carved Green Pears: add pineapple and green grapes. and kiwi cut into shamrock shapes or carved green bell peppers and filled with savory salad fillings
7. See all fruit list suggestions below

Fruits, Vegetables Sweet or Savory Filling Suggestions:

1. green grapes red grapes blue grapes 
2. sliced plums
3. sliced peaches
4. pear slices
5. fresh cherry pits were removed and sliced
6. firm bananas soaked in lemon juice and sliced
7. sliced apples soaked in lemon juice
8. large navel orange or mandarin oranges
9. raspberries
10. blackberries
11. boysenberries
12. starfruit
13. watermelon, or other melon like cantaloupe or honeydew
14. pineapple fresh and cut the long way
15. diced strawberries
16. mango
17. papaya
18. fill with canned fruit cocktail drained
19. fill with sour cream and chopped oranges sweetened with powdered sugar
20. add any fruits to whipped cream or whipped cream cheese and fill
21. fill oranges with a vanilla pudding and mandarin chopped oranges
22. fill with Ambrosia Salad
23. fill oranges or bell peppers with chicken salad
24. fill with ham salad
25. make one of your favorite dips fill the oranges and serve with assorted crackers and dips
26. fill with cubes of cheese or a cream cheese herb-seasoned dip
27. fill a bell pepper with bean dip 

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