My favorite way to showcase fruit during the holiday season

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It’s festive, it’s easy, it’s healthy: It’s the fruit tree!

And it’s one of my favorite Christmas directions. All you need to do is take a cupcake tree and fill it with various fruits. Stick it on a table, counter or mantle and you’ll have a reminder to eat your fruit, and get give your fruit bowl a break.

I haven’t tried this, but if you’d like to do a healthy version of an advent calendar, you could probably do so easily with a 24-space cupcake holder like mine. Just a thought.

And while I like the one I made this year (above) featuring clementines, apples and a pomegranate, my favorite one so far was the monochromatic all-clementine one I did last year.

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Of course, the best thing about a fruit tree, is it’s easily changeable, so the second there are bald spots on my current “tree,” I can just fill it in until I have all clementines, or maybe all apples. Pretty!