Frozen Flower Bowls With Fruits

This comes from the book Girlfriends Forever by Susan Blanch. A delicious and lovely way to present food! Cooking time is freezing time.

• Ready In: 12 hrs 20 mins
• Yields: 1 large bowl of fruit

Ingredients

• Flower bowl

•  water
•  fresh edible flower

• Orange Dressing

• 3⁄4 cup  fresh orange juice
• 1  tablespoon  frozen orange juice concentrate
• 1  tablespoon orange zest
•  fruit salad, mixtures

• Summer Favorite

•  watermelon balls or  blueberries or  blackberries or  strawberries or  cantaloupe balls or  red grapes or  mangoes, chunks or  mint sprig

• Autumn Favorite

•  pears or  pomegranate seeds or  green grapes or  apples or   toasted walnuts or   thin iced rings red onion, dry crumbled

• Tropical Favorite

•  bananas, slices or  pineapple chunks or  kiwi fruits or  mangoes or  star fruit or  kumquats or  flaked coconut or   chopped  macadamia nuts

Directions

1. To make the bowl:
2. Clean out a place in your freezer (good luck!). Fill a bowl part way with water; drop in a cup or so of fresh flower blossoms, herbs, berries, or leaves. Put a smaller bowl in the big bowl and fill the little bowl with ice cubes to weigh it down. Cover the whole thing with a clean dish towel and use duck tape(to keep bowls in place as water expands). Freeze overnight. Twenty minutes before serving, remove from freezer, unwrap and allow to sit at room temperature. Separate bowls and fill with chilled fruit, drizzle Orange Dressing over all and toss gently. Set ice bowl in a shallow dish and serve. Enjoy!
3. Orange Dressing:
4. Combine dressing ingredients in a small saucepan; simmer; reduce to 1/2 cup. Remove from heat and chill.
5. Yield: about 1/2 cup.