Fresh Rainbow Fruit Skewers

Fruit Skewers are a super easy and fun sweet treat. These fresh rainbow-looking fruit skewers are a colorful and delicious way to eat the recommended servings of fruit!

These fruit kabobs are incredible on their own or serve with a fun dip for ultimate snacking. Try Cheesecake Dip, Marshmallow Cream Cheese, or even Chocolate Hummus to dip these skewers in!

What You Need For Rainbow Fruit Skewers

This is all subject to your tastes and what is in season. Change the ingredients as you need to.

• Strawberries: Sweet and juicy, look for the strawberries that are uniform in size and deep red color.
• Oranges: You can leave the peel on or take it off.
• Kiwi: Peel and cut, look for kiwi that is firm but gives under slight pressure.
• Blackberries: Look for large deep-colored blackberries.
• Red Grapes: The best grapes are firm and crunchy, not mushy.
• Green Grapes: Slightly sweeter than red grapes they add a nice crunch.
• Blueberries: Find blueberries that are uniform in size and just barely ripe.
• Wooden Skewers: Use new wooden skewers to avoid cracks or splinters.

Assembling Your Fruit Kabobs

These are perfect to have little hands help assemble. Kids love to help in the kitchen and are more apt to eat what they can help make.

1. Skewer: Using a skewer thread the strawberries, orange slices, kiwi, blackberries, grapes, and blueberries.
2. Serve: Arrange on a platter and serve with your favorite dip or all by themselves.

Different Fruits You Can Use

Fresh fruit is a MUST for these skewers. Frozen fruit will just turn to mush. Because fruits are best at different times throughout the year, your choices of fruit might be different. Whatever fruit you use they will be incredible. Here are suggestions for the different colors.

• Red: Raspberries, Strawberries, Watermelon, Seeded Cherries, and Red Apples.
• Orange: Clementines or nectarines, Cantaloupe, Apricots and Mango are great orange flavor and colored fruit.
• Yellow: Pineapple, Peaches, Golden delicious Apples, Pears some Mangos and Bananas.
• Green: Kiwi, Green Grapes, Green Apples, and Honeydew.
• Blue: Blueberries, Dark Purple/Blue Grapes, Elderberries and Blackberries.
• Purple: Purple Grapes, Plums, and Blackberries can be used here too.

Tips For Fantastic Fruit Skewers

The best part about these skewers is that they are fresh, vibrant, and fun!

• Spreads: Fruit skewers are awesome on their own, but you can serve with dipping sauces for more fun. Chocolate sauce, fondue, caramel sauce, fruit-flavored yogurts, whipped topping mixed with coconut or vanilla. You can also use vanilla or chocolate pudding as dipping sauces.
• Make A Cloud: Make these truly a rainbow and stick a cloud on the end of the skewer. Use a large marshmallow!
• No Soaking: Since you are not grilling the fruit, you do not need to soak your wooden skewers.