Munch Too Pretty To Eat: Rabbit Tutorial

With Easter drawing near, I thought I could share something that you might like to share with some children (or adults!) in your life, and my first Tutorial on Tuesday - a rabbit.

Cut a slice of apple from across the apple so you get the star in the middle from the core. I used the slice very close the base of the apple, so only have a dot instead of a star for the core. The whole slice is about 3-4mm thick (1/8th inch for all of my USA readers).

Take two sultanas and place just above the centre of the core to form two eyes.

Take a grape. Lie it so it is an oval on the chopping board (rather than a circle when looking from above). Cut it in half and place it in the centre of the core to be a nose.

Take a carrot, and cut some really thin matchsticks (the ones you see here aren't thin enough - I cut them a lot thinner before I used them). Alternatively, you could use a vegetable peeler to peel a thin slice of carrot, and then use a knife to cut it into matchsticks. If you have a grater than makes matchsticks, that is a great option too. Take off the grape and arrange the carrot to be whiskers before replacing the grape on top.

Next, take a cucumber. I prefer the lebanese cucumbers (the smaller ones). A baby cucumber would work well too. Lie it on the chopping board so it looks like a surfboard. Cut it in half. Stand the cucumber up on its end (the cut end on the chopping board) and cut slices so that it looks like those shown. Then, cut the non-skin end (the raw-edge) on an angle so that it fits against the apple slice.