This is a photo of a watermelon slice shaped plate (triangular) with fruit salad placed on it. The fruit is cut into cute shapes. The plate is placed on a marble-like countertop.

Cutie Fruity Patootie

This is a photo of a watermelon slice shaped plate (triangular) with fruit salad placed on it. The fruit is cut into cute shapes. The plate is placed on a marble-like countertop.

With reckless, thrill-seeking abandon, I bought a package of fruit cutters for three dollars. They are WILD! Wildly cute, that is. These are the shapes they come in: star, goldfish, bunny head, and flower.

We had some leftover pineapple from Alex’s graduation party, so I cut out star shapes from that. The banana got the flower treatment, and some white peaches got the bunny head. Then, I started over again with the pineapple, which also got the goldfish treatment.

The shapes are incredibly small, so if you want to fill a whole bowl with cute animal faces and such, you’re going to need a lot of time, patience, and lemon juice because the white peaches will look like zombie bunny heads if you don’t feed them the brains and blood of lemons.

Did I NEED to buy this? No, but it was only three dollars. Will I use it again? Probably not, though they would make super adorable tiny tea cookies for Mother’s Day next year (hint, hint, Nate and Alex). Or, the tiniest sandwiches ever to spoil the figurines and dolls of a miniature house diorama.

They’d also work well on cheese. Why place ordinary cheese cubes or crumbles on a mouse trap when you can lure rodents with cheese shaped like flowers?

I hear extra-terrestrials also get hungry when they’re out prowling the Earth for humans to experiment on. That’s why you’ve got to leave tiny star-shaped cookies and thimbles of milk out, so you can at least be on the “don’t experiment on me too much” list.

In any case, the fruit salad of whimsical shapes tasted like fruit and not an extra-terrestrial experiment, so if you do something like this at home, there’s no chance anyone could be confused or terrified.

It’s nice to shake things up every once in a while, cut a rug or a kiwi—stay on the cutting edge of fresh fruitery—hit the produce stand with danger pulsing through your veins and a bunny head-shaped cutter looking for cheap thrills.

Your Turn: What’s your favorite fruit?

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25 thoughts on “Cutie Fruity Patootie”

  2. Bowen mango for sure for me. I also like pineapple and passion fruit. A nice just ripe red pawpaw is also pretty good too. These are basically the fruits I want on a Christmas pavlova or in a Christmas trifle. Dried mango, pineapple, and pawpaw are also pretty nice too.

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  3. Blueberries, cherries and peaches are definitely my favourites although I like lots of others, too. Those shapes are very cute and certainly perfect for calming the culinary desires of extra-terrestrials. Just as long as they don’t want to have bunny-shaped brain cookies or something like that! 😊

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  4. I love nectarines at the moment, better than their peach cousins as you don’t have to eat fur.

    I would choose cheddar cheese for the shapes as it would keep the shape well and make cheese and crackers more exciting.

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    1. The fruit cutters were super easy to use. They cut like cookie cutters, gliding smoothly through the fruit. It’s just that they’re so small that it would take a lot of cutting. It would be a fun group activity for lots of people to participate in, and then you end up with a lovely bowl in no time!

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  8. Oh, I say that a fruit cutter is actually an essential to have! And a multitasker: you can use it with basically everything; it makes anything cute and is a hell of a defence against alien snatchers… now are you still thinking you didn’t need it???!!!!😜

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  11. Hey, nothing wrong with a little kitsch in the kitchen. The bunny head is particularly cute. I have miniature cutters in various shapes, too, and it is always entertaining (for me, anyway) to cut random pieces of fruit and cheese into bunny, bear, horsie, cow and dinosaur shapes. Keeps life interesting. 🙂 Great post as always, Cecilia.

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