A Flower Jarcuterie is an adorable vegetable charcuterie board in a jar! This bite-size edible bouquet is a fun and easy way to get kids to eat their veggies. Or serve as a healthy party appetizer.
How to Make a Vegetable Flower Jarcuterie
This easy vegetable jarcuterie looks like a lovely flower arrangement, but it’s really a fun way to serve fresh vegetables to picky eaters or a party crowd. Getting creative with vegetable trays is one of my favorite party tricks!
Let’s face it, sometimes vegetables need a little help with their presentation to make them more appetizing. Isn’t this so cute?
Vegetable Charcuterie Board in a Jar
If you need a quick and easy way to serve vegetables for your next party, look no further than this crowd-pleasing easy flower jarcuterie!
Serve these individual charcuterie cups to party guests. Or, if you have picky eaters in your family, try making this vegetable jarcuterie as a healthy snack.
Think of this as a vegetable charcuterie board in a jar. Gather some small glassware, your favorite vegetables, a few special tools and start arranging your vegetable charcuterie board in a jar!
When my kids were younger, I used to get them to eat more vegetables by making cute arrangements like this fun veggie tray!
Lately, I’ve been making a lot of charcuterie boards. I love charcuterie boards because they have a little bit of everything for everyone. This easy vegetable jarcuterie combines the variety of a charcuterie board into a bite-sized vegetable flower arrangement.
What is Jarcuterie?
Jarcuterie is a fresh take on the ever popular charcuterie boards. Charcuterie boards have been trending for a few years now because they’re a stunning way to serve meats, cheeses, crackers, and vegetables all on one board.
Now take this idea, and put it into an into individual charcuterie cups–or jarcuterie!
How Do You Make a Flower Jarcuterie?
To make an easy flower jarcuterie, select glassware that will hold your arrangement. Then use vegetables your party guests or kids will like.
Carrots, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, and celery are perfect for a vegetable charcuterie board in a jar. The celery will be the stems of your flower arrangement. Just fill the cups with the celery, then stick the vegetables on the toothpicks and the toothpicks into the celery stalks.
I used cream cheese as my glue to stick the pieces of carrots onto the cucumber flower. The lettuce leaves are placed around for cuteness.
What Do I need to make an Easy Flower Jarcuterie?
To make a flower jarcuterie jar, you will need:
- Small vases, cups, jars, or orange juice glasses.
- Vegetables your kids like, plus celery for the stems and lettuce for leaves.
- Cream cheese (optional to use as glue)
- Flower-shaped cookie cutter (I used one for playdough!) Or, you could try these cool vegetable cutters.
- Toothpicks
- Water
You Might Also Like These Charcuterie Ideas:
- Turkey Vegetable Tray
- Greek Tzatziki Sauce with Vegetable Platter
- Epic Charcuterie Board
- American Flag Vegetable Tray
- 15 Holiday & Birthday Vegetable Tray Ideas
Take these charcuterie ideas and turn them into individual vegetable jarcuterie boards in a jar! Let me know how it turns out!
Flower Jarcuterie – Individual Vegetable Board in a Jar
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 cup Baby carrots
- 1 cup Grape tomatoes
- 1 Cucumber sliced
- 1 cup Celery sticks sliced
- ½ cup Baby spinach
- 1 tbsp Cream cheese
- Water
Instructions
- Cut cucumber slices into flowers using cookie cutters.
- Cut a baby carrot into 1/8 inch thick slices.
- Use a dab of cream cheese as the glue to stick slcices of carrots onto the cucumber flower.
- Add grape tomatoes and carrots on toothpicks.
- Fill the cups or jars with water and celery sticks.
- Stick the vegetable toothpicks into the celery stalks arranging them by various heights.
- Garnish with baby spinach for the flower leaves.
- Refrigerate the flower jarcuterie until ready to serve and enjoy!
Notes
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Updated 2021, originally published April 8, 2011
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They look really cute and yummy at the same time. Would love to try these!
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This is seriously adorable! I love the cucumber flowers so much.
great idea! love it
Very cute! Have to show my daughter 🙂 She loves making cute dishes like this.
Love your site – the rainbow cupcakes are adorable and so is the veggie bouquet! I'm going to spend some time here, I can see!
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thanks for the great idea look what i did with it: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151411311432048&set=pcb.10151411311537048&type=1&theater
how did you make the white flowers
I love this, I always see fruit flowers but never veggies…very cute!
Very cool! I often use spaghetti to stick stuff together for kids so no one gets a toothpick by mistake! Completely edible
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I'm loving this adorable way to serve up your veggies this spring and summer from @LivingLocurto. http://bit.ly/lUFK2h
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This is a BEYOND AWESOME idea for snacks at a party. I will absolutely have to try this. 🙂 Thanks for the inspiration!!
Fantab idea!! Linking back!!
Those are so fantastic! Being a Registered Dietitian, I would love to put these on my blog sometime this week!
Hope that’s ok with you!
Thanks for sharing,
–Katie
LOVE this idea – absolutely adorable! It would be perfect snack for a sweet floral themed party. I included it in our roundup of floral party themed foods today! Hope you’ll check it out! Floral Themed Food Finds
LOVE THIS IDEA making vegtables fun to eat is always wonderful in my book:)
@Kristin,
So cute. I use this idea for finger salad on a toothpick to get the little and big kids to eat their veggies when the hostess says to bring finger foods to the potluck.
What a fun idea! I’m featuring this at somedaycrafts.blogspot.com.
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Amy,
What a brilliant idea! And your daughter looks so happy to eat it. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
I love these! A brilliant solution to the ongoing struggle to get my kiddos to eat their veggies. Thanks!
The kids and I are totally going to make these some day soon. What a cool idea! http://fb.me/x3KgIaoI
That looks sooo yummy– and cute!! I just did a post on cookies and I had to include yours in because it looked just as delicious! I filed this at thecraftersfilebox.com.
Brilliant! I love this. I posted a link on my other site (ediblecrafts.craftgossip.com)
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I just don’t get it about children not liking veggies. My 3 boys always loved everything vegetable, and so does my grandson. Teachers line up in the school lunchroom to watch him chow down on a bag full of mixed vegetables. He loves them all, eats them all with relish, and if you give him a small puddle of ranch dressing, he thinks it’s dessert! I think it is parental trepedation that kids pick up on. If you show the slightest hesitancy about veggies, they’re going to see it. Be bold! If you assume your child will like it and just have it available, eventually they’ll want to try it. Even deny it a few times by useing reverse psychology. But it is OK to not like two or three. Everyone has something they really never learn to like. Chill out, and don’t let your kids near the ones who have been made into picky eaters by over-anxious parents. Remember: if they get hungry enough, they’ll eat it.
Super cute presentation of fresh veggies for kids – http://bit.ly/eUqjUI via @LivingLocurto #mamavation
What a fun, creative way to get kids to eat their fruits and veggies! Would even be cute as an Easter table… http://fb.me/VjgCFkKS
Healthy and fun idea for your next garden party! https://www.livinglocurto.com/2011/04/veggie-flower-bouquet-treat/
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From now on, I'm only eating veggies that look like this. Thanks, Amy at Living Locurto for making these for me!!… http://fb.me/E8iQKko4
Veggie Flower Bouquet Treat-Great Idea! http://bit.ly/fUaRKw via @livinglocurto
This is a brilliant idea! So creative. We don’t even have kids yet, but I think I want to use this next time we have a little party. Individual veggie vases for each guest to munch on…
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RT @livinglocurto: Veggie Flower Bouquet Treat http://bit.ly/fCHA5W Such a cute idea for garden parties! Love this!
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Adorable Amy! Thank you. For some reason since you changed hosting services i am not receiving updates. I will see if re-subscribing solves the issue. Have a great weekend! 🙂
Hugs,
Jonni
@bridget {bake at 350},
I was wondering how long it would be before someone commented on the shirt:-)
so cute….and I love the Eskimo Joe’s shirt! 😉
Absolutely adorable!! Sure to bring a smile regardless of the occasion.
Way too cute for words, you are so clever!
Hmm…. boys can have flowers at their birthday parties, right?! LOL my boys’ party is next weekend and setting these flower bouquets around would be awesome!!
what a cute idea!
so cute- I’m having a little day trip with the girls coming up….these would be perfect to add to our picnic lunch.
Thanks
Great idea! I bet my boys would even take a few bites if I presented their veggies like this.
I love the veggie bouquets, they are too cute! But what I love even more is the fact that your adorable daughter is sporting an Eskimo Joe’s t-shirt and it is in Oklahoma State colors!
This is really cute and a great idea! I did something similair :
http://homespunwithlove.blogspot.com/2011/04/food-craftidea-vegetable-patch.html if you want to check it out. Thanks for all your ideas and free printables!