Need Help Fast-- Festive Fruit Cascade Oct/Nov 2007

I have lost my Oct/Nov copy of TOH. I have all the other copies but cannot find that one! I know that is where the recipe/directions are found because my Feb/March issue includes a small picture of it on page 68. I was planning to make the fruit display this weekend for a large party and when I went to get the magazine I found it was missing from my collection. I need  the list of ingredients and if possible the directions.-- A picture would be great. I cannot believe this has happened. I know I should have looked prior to today but I was confident it was where it should be. I really would apprecitae any help on this!!! Thanks! PS-- I am a newbie and this is my first post. If I have have posted in the wrong section please let me know :)

Hi tipper847,  Here it is.

Cascading Fruit Centerpiece

Taste of Home

"It's exciting and fun to build this pretty centerpiece, which I have made for holidays, weddings and showers over the past 20 years," notes Ellen Brown of Aledo, Texas. "The ginger dip is wonderful, or you can fill the fruit cups with other favorite dips, flavored yogurt or whipped topping.

Ingredients:

• PINEAPPLE GINGER DIP:
• 2 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese, softened
• 5 tablespoons unsweetened pineapple juice
• 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
• 1 tablespoon grated orange peel
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1-1/2 to 2 teaspoons ground ginger
• 1/4 cup flaked coconut, toasted
• CENTERPIECE:
• 1 fresh pineapple
• 1 large grapefruit
• 1 large navel orange
• 1 medium lemon
• 8 Styrofoam rounds (four 10 inches x 1 inch, four 6 inches x 1 inch)
• 2 wooden dowels (one 8 inches x 1/4 inch, one 4-1/2 inches x 1/4 inch)
• Floral metal greening pins
• 3 to 5 pounds seedless green grapes
• 3 to 5 pounds seedless red grapes
• 1 pound fresh strawberries
• Silk flowers with leaves
• 3 cups yogurt of your choice

Directions:

In a small mixing bowl, combine the first six ingredients. Stir in coconut. Chill until serving.
    Cut off pineapple top with a fourth of the pineapple attached; set aside. For dip bowl, cut a third from bottom of pineapple; remove fruit, leaving a 1/2-in. shell. Remove peel from center section of pineapple; core and cut pineapple into chunks.
    Cut the grapefruit, orange and lemon in half widthwise. Remove pulp from one half of each; set aside. (Save the remaining grapefruit, orange and lemon halves for another use.)
    Stack two 10-in. Styrofoam rounds and two 6-in. rounds; cover each stack with heavy-duty foil. Repeat with remaining rounds. On a 19-in. x 15-in. platter, pile the stacks on top of each other, staggering them and anchoring with dowels.
    Place pineapple top on the top circle; position lemon, orange and grapefruit cups on other circles. Place pineapple bowl on platter.
    With greening pins, attach clusters of grapes onto circles. Randomly add strawberries, pineapple chunks and more grapes to cover the foil and platter. Decorate with silk flowers. Just before serving, fill pineapple bowl with pineapple ginger dip. Fill lemon, orange and grapefruit cups with yogurt. Yield: 1 fruit centerpiece

Hello~

 I'm planning to use this wonderful arrangement for my daughters grad party next weekend.  I've purchased the styrofoam and dow rods.  Can you please explain how you anchored the stacks with the rods?  

 Thank you!

 Theller

theller, I see that this is your first post, so I'd like to WELCOME you to the board.  I also wanted to comment that tipper847 was also a NEWBIE, when she requested this recipe on April 8, as that was her first and only post on the Board so far.  We have no idea of whether she made the recipe she requested or not.

gavingrma__OH found the recipe and posted it for her.  She did not say she had made the recipe either. 

For myself, I think the centerpiece is beautiful, but is not something I would try to do at my age.  I probably wouldn't have attempted it when I was younger either.  There are instructions in the recipe from the person who had it published in the magazine.  If you do not understand her instructions, I wouldn't try it, especially with the high cost of groceries.  If you decide to make it, I wish you good luck.  Post again, and give us a review if you make it.  I, myself would hate to try it, and have it collapse after all that work.

Margaret