Easter is a time for gathering with loved ones, and one delightful way to bring color and creativity to the table is with Easter-themed fruit and veggie platters. These platters are perfect for springtime celebrations, offering a healthy, vibrant, and visually appealing snack or appetizer.
Whether shaped like bunnies, eggs, or simple floral designs, fruit, and veggie platters can be customized with a variety of fresh, seasonal produce. They are perfect for Easter brunch, dinner, or even as a fun centerpiece for the kids’ table.
1. Easter Bunny Veggie Tray
Create the Easter bunny’s face with a variety of veggies.
- Veggies: Use sliced cucumbers for the bunny’s face, baby carrots for the ears, cherry tomatoes for the nose, black olives for eyes, and broccoli florets to add fur texture around the face.
Start with a large circle of cucumber slices for the bunny’s face. From the ears with baby carrots. Create a nose with cherry tomatoes and use olives for the eyes.
2. Egg-Shaped Rainbow Fruit Platter
This fruit platter is shaped like an Easter egg and uses colorful layers of fruit to mimic the pattern.
- Fruits: Layer from top to bottom in stripes of color: strawberries, orange slices, pineapple chunks, green grapes, blueberries, and purple grapes.
Arrangement
Shape the entire platter like an oval (Easter egg), and create decorative stripes with your fruits.
3. Easter Chick Veggie Platter
Arrange yellow-colored veggies and fruits in the shape of a cute chick.
- Veggies: Yellow bell peppers, baby carrots, and yellow cherry tomatoes for the chick’s body. Use black olives for the eyes, and an orange bell pepper slice for the beak.
Shape the body of the chick with bell pepper strips and the head with baby carrots. Add the wings and feet using more yellow bell peppers.
4. Spring Flower Garden Platter
Create a garden-like platter with vegetable flowers.
- Veggies: Use cucumber rounds for flower petals, carrot slices for flower centers, celery, or bell pepper sticks for stems, and leafy greens for the grass.
Arrangement
Create multiple flower shapes across the platter, using different vegetable combinations for variety.
5. Easter Egg Fruit Kebabs
Create mini “Easter eggs” on fruit skewers for a fun, grab-and-go option.
- Fruits: Use grapes, melon balls (cantaloupe, honeydew), strawberries, blueberries, and pineapple chunks.
Thread the fruits onto skewers in alternating colors to represent the colorful, striped pattern of an Easter egg.
6. Carrot-Shaped Veggie Platter
A carrot-shaped platter with bright orange veggies and a leafy green “stem.”
- Veggies: Use baby carrots, orange bell peppers, or cheddar cheese cubes for the carrot base. For the leafy green top, use kale, spinach, or celery leaves.
Arrangement
Lay out the carrots in a triangular shape, with the narrow end forming the bottom. Use the leafy greens at the top to create the “stem.”
7. Butterfly Fruit and Veggie Platter
A beautiful butterfly-shaped platter made from both fruits and veggies.
- Veggies: Use cucumber slices and red bell pepper strips for the wings, cherry tomatoes for the body, and carrots or celery for antennae.
- Fruits: Use grapes and strawberries to add colorful spots on the wings.
Create the butterfly shape on a large platter, with a bell pepper strip creating the center and the cucumber rounds and fruits creating the wings.
8. Easter Egg Veggie Dip Cups
Individual veggie cups designed to look like mini Easter eggs.
- Veggies: Fill small clear cups with colorful strips of bell peppers, celery, cucumber, and carrots.
Arrangement
Serve the cups with layers of different-colored vegetables, so they resemble Easter eggs when viewed from the side.
9. Easter Egg Deviled Eggs and Veggie Platter
A twist on deviled eggs paired with fresh veggies in a festive arrangement.
- Veggies: Arrange colorful veggies like radishes, cherry tomatoes, and sugar snap peas around deviled eggs dyed with natural food colors.
Surround the decorated deviled eggs with a mix of colorful veggies, giving a fun Easter egg-hunt-like feel.
10. Fruit Carrot Patch
A fun platter that looks like a garden of fruity “carrots.”
- Fruits: Use whole strawberries (for the “carrots”) and kiwi slices (for the “leaves”).
Arrangement
Place strawberries with the leafy tops facing down, and arrange kiwi slices at the top of each strawberry to look like the carrot’s greenery.
*These platters can be mixed and matched to create a vibrant and healthy Easter spread that’s sure to delight guests of all ages!
The Bottom Line
We hope you enjoy creating these fun and festive Easter fruit and veggie platters! Feel free to get creative with your own designs and produce choices.
