Homemade Fruit Cups Food

FRUIT CUPS

Steps:

• Without draining any of the fruit, combine all ingredients in a large bowl. Mix well.
• Spoon by the cupful into 9 oz. cups and freeze until firm. (Package in plastic airtight bags or cover with plastic wrap for long-term storage).
• Remove from freezer about 15 minutes prior to serving. I like to serve them when they are slushy but still frozen.

HOMEMADE FRUIT CUPS

Steps:

• Divide the fruit into four water-tight, lidded lunch containers.
• Fill each container with enough lemonade to almost cover the fruit. You might need more liquid, depending on the container size.
• Close the lid, and give it a quick shake to coat all the fruit with the lemonade.

CREAMY FRUIT CUPS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• Coat a 12-cup muffin pan with cooking spray.
• Line each cup with a wonton wrapper.
• Coat each wrapper with cooking spray.
• Place a second wrapper diagonally on top of each of the first ones, making sure that the points of the wrappers form sides to the cup.
• Coat the second wrapper with cooking spray.
• Bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown.
• Cool on a rack.
• Remove from the pan.
• In a medium bowl, combine 1 cup of the berries, the yogurt, and all- fruit spread.
• Gently toss to blend.
• Evenly divide the yogurt mixture among the cups.
• Top with the remaining 1/4 cup berries.

FRUIT CUPS

Steps:

• Set out 21 small plastic cups. (9 fluid ounce cups)
• Layer the bottom of the cups with blueberries.
• Divide the grapes among the cups and reserve 21 grapes for later.
• Make the watermelon balls with a small melon baller. See visual tutorial on post above. Divide among the cups.
• Cut out 21 hearts from the honeydew melon.
• Stick a toothpick into the grape and place melon heart on top of toothpick. Stick the toothpick into a watermelon. Make sure the watermelon is nestled in the center so it is balanced. Repeat with remaining hearts and grapes.

YOGURT AND FRUIT PARFAITS

Steps:

• Layer 1/3 cup vanilla yogurt into the bottom each of 4 tall glasses. Combine defrosted strawberries and juice with fresh berries. Alternate layers of fruit and granola with yogurt until glasses are filled to the top. Serve parfaits immediately to keep granola crunchy.

FROZEN FRUIT CUPS

Steps:

• Combine the peaches, oranges, pineapple, fruit cocktail, bananas, juice concentrate and lemon juice in a bowl and mix until combined. Place in small disposable plastic cups and cover with plastic wrap or foil. Freeze until firm. Remove from the freezer 45 minutes to 1 hour before serving to thaw.

FRUIT-COCKTAIL GELATIN CUPS

Steps:

• If using a vanilla bean, split in half and scrape seeds out. Reserve all. In a medium saucepan, bring the water, sugar, and vanilla bean pod and seeds or extract to a boil. Lower the heat and simmer.
• Drop in the pear and pineapple and poach for 4 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon and set aside.
• Drop in peach and nectarine, and poach for 2 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon and set aside.
• Drop in grapes and orange segments, and poach for 1 minute. Remove with a slotted spoon and set aside. Drop in cherries, and poach for 2 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon and set aside. Since they will discolor the syrup, always do them last.
• When you have finished, put all of the fruit back in the syrup and set aside to cool down. Once cool strain the fruit and reserve. The syrup can be saved for another use.
• Mango may be added raw.
• Prepare your favorite gelatin: In large bowl, soften gelatin by stirring it into 1/2 cup apple juice. Set aside.
• In small saucepan, bring the remaining 3 1/2 cups of apple juice and the sugar to a boil. Boil until the crystals have dissolved, about 1 minute. Pour it over the gelatin and stir to dissolve.
• Stir in the reserved fruits and pour into 6-ounce footed cups. Chill several hours until set.

RED, WHITE, AND BLUE FRUIT CUPS

Steps:

• Slice strawberries and combine in a bowl with blue and/or blackberries. Sprinkle berries with two teaspoons sugar. Whip cream until soft peaks form and sweeten with remaining sugar. Serve berries in small cups with generous spoonfuls of fresh whipped cream.

FROZEN FRUIT CUPS

Steps:

• In a colander drain fruit from cans and then put into a 4 quart or larger bowl.
• Add fruit punch concentrate, marachino cherries with juice and sliced bananas to bowl of drained fruit.
• Add 1 cup water and mix gently.
• Spoon about 1/2 cup fruit mixture into 9 oz. plastic cups.
• Divide the rest of the juice evenly into all the fruit cups.
• Top off the fruit with about 1/4 cup of 7-up soda.
• Freeze 3 hours or more.
• You can defrost the cups for a few seconds in the microwave to get a more slushy type consistency.

OVERNIGHT FRUIT CUP

Steps:

• In a large bowl, dissolve gelatin in water. Add orange juice concentrate; mix well. Add all of the fruit; mix well. Cover and refrigerate overnight.

FROZEN FRUIT CUPS

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients in a very large bowl.
• Freeze in 1-cup increments.
• Thaw slightly before serving, to a slushy consistency.

FRUIT JELLO CUPS

Steps:

• If using fresh fruit, clean and peel hard skinned fruits (apples, bananas, pears, oranges, etc, melons, etc) and cut into small chunks. Use your choice of anti-browning agent and sprinkle, then toss to coat well the cut fruit. Set aside.
• Boil fruit juice and sugar in a microwave safe container in the microwave until boiling. don't allow to much liquid to be lost to steam. Cover in microwave if you can. Stir well, making sure all sugar has dissolved. If using Splenda, do not add at this point.
• Meanwhile, open can of fruit and drain juices into a separate medium sized non metal bowl.
• Pour drained juices into a measuring cup, add Splenda and fill to 1 cup mark with fruit juice of your choice (remember, no real pineapple or kiwi juice.artificial flavoring is ok).
• In the non metal bowl you already used, pour boiling fruit juice mixture and sprinkle gelatin in slowly while stirring until gelatin is dissolved.
• Line up your cups and pour mixture to about half (using the cups I mentioned above). When all mixture is poured in, add 1 tiny drop to each container you want to color and mix with a spoon. The extreme colors are very bright/dark and I think the pink and green/yellow turn out the prettiest with the fruit. Don't use big drops or you wont be able to see the fruit as well. Sometimes I split one drop between two by putting one drop in one container and then pouring the mixture back and forth in the separate containers till desired color is achieved. The regular food coloring has nice Christmas colors. The kids love this part!
• After you are happy with your colors, add about 2 TB of the chunked fruit to your cups. It will sink to the bottom and raise the level of the gelatin to within 1/4" of the top.
• Cover and chill about 1 hour.
• Feel free to use different kinds of juice and fruit. Each container has about 2 servings of fruit. This makes a firm set.if you prefer a softer set, add 1/8 cup more cold fruit juice.

TORTILLA-FRUIT CUPS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400ºF.
• Toss fruit with 1 Tbsp. sugar. Refrigerate until ready to use.
• Combine cinnamon and remaining sugar. Spray tortillas with cooking spray; sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Gently press tortillas, sugared sides up, into 6 muffin pan cups.
• Bake 10 to 12 min. or until crisp. Remove from muffin pan to wire racks; cool completely.
• Fill tortilla cups with COOL WHIP and fruit mixture just before serving.

CHILLED FRUIT CUPS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, prepare pineapple juice concentrate according to package directions. Add orange juice concentrate, water, sugar, lemon juice and fruit. Spoon 3/4 cup mixture into each plastic cup. Place cups in a pan and freeze. Remove from the freezer 40-50 minutes before serving.