Vegetable Christmas Tree With Broccoli Recipes

Steps:

• Cover the bottom of a 13-in. x 9-in. glass dish with dressing. Arrange broccoli in a tree shape, using the stem as the trunk. Place cauliflower around tree. Add tomatoes and carrot slices as ornaments.

Steps:

• In small bowl, stir together dip ingredients. Cover; refrigerate at least 1 hour to blend flavors.
• Rinse and thoroughly dry vegetables. Trim broccoli and cauliflower floret stems.
• Arrange broccoli on serving platter to form tree shape and tomatoes to form garland. Arrange bell pepper to form star and cauliflower to form snow (see photo). If desired, cover and refrigerate up to 4 hours.
• Just before serving, arrange pretzels at bottom of tree to form trunk. Serve with dip.

Steps:

• Stack cake dummies (found in cake decorating stores or at www.cookscakeandcandy.com-search "Styrofoam dummy rounds"). Cut Styrofoam cone to about 4 in. high; glue on top of small cake dummy. Glue remaining cake dummies together. Wrap the form in cheesecloth dyed with food coloring., Attach kale leaves with toothpicks. Add veggie trims., For daikon radish garland, use a vegetable peeler to create long, thin ribbons from radishes. Drape around the tree, going under some trims and over others, and tucking in the ends to hide., For ornaments, cut turnips into 1/4-in.-thick rounds. Use cookie cutters to make ornaments; attach with toothpicks., Make a tree topper of interlinked pepper rings.

Steps:

• Arrange broccoli florets in the shape of a Christmas tree. Drape red pepper strips as garlands between the rows of broccoli florets and stick in the cherry tomatoes as ornaments.
• Cut yellow bell pepper into a star using a cookie cutter and place on top of the broccoli tree. Cut little thin strips out of the remaining yellow bell pepper to become candles and arrange on tree.
• Break pretzel sticks in half and lay as a trunk on the bottom of the broccoli tree. Arrange cauliflower as snow and clouds.

Steps:

• Arrange broccoli florets in the shape of a Christmas tree. Drape red pepper strips as garlands between the rows of broccoli florets and stick in the cherry tomatoes as ornaments.
• Cut yellow bell pepper into a star using a cookie cutter and place on top of the broccoli tree. Cut little thin strips out of the remaining yellow bell pepper to become candles and arrange on tree.
• Break pretzel sticks in half and lay as a trunk on the bottom of the broccoli tree. Arrange cauliflower as snow and clouds.

Steps:

• Cover the bottom of a 13X9X2-inch glass dish with dressing.
• Arrange broccoli in a tree shape,
• Make trunk from broccoli stem or (using 1 1/2 large pretzel sticks cut in half arranged next to one another)
• Place cauliflower around tree.
• Add tomatoes and carrot slices as ornaments.