Ok ... I know there's a giant pile of ripe/off fruit in the kitchen ...

[NotQuiteCockney]

I don't want to waste it.

I would normally bake fruity sorts of cakes with it ... but the house is full of Xmas sweets, I don't expect they'd get used.

Can I freeze applesauce? Make purees of other fruits, and freeze them, to mix with yogurt or put in smoothies?

Or can I just grate/cut up fruit and freeze it, for smoothies or cakes?

Or can I make fruity sorts of cakes (like carrot cake, but with fruit instead of carrot) and freeze them? Better frozen as batter, or as cakes?

[scienceteacher]

I make up smoothie mixes when I have an excess of fruit. I will chop the different fruits and freeze them in takeaway containers.

When it comes to making a smoothie, I just have to add the liquid and whizz it up.

[sinkingfast]

I'd go for baking cakes and freezing them. Banana loaf freezes well, as does apple cake.

[mrsgboRingOutTheOld]

second the bake and freeze suggestion.

[NotQuiteCockney]

Well, I can do a mix of these things.

I don't think there's banana in there. Bananas get eaten. It'll mostly be pears and citrus fruits, I think.

I make a great orange/pumpkin loaf, it's my favourite cake ever, could do with one of those in the freezer. (And I already have frozen pureed pumpkin in the freezer ...)

The mix of fruit/veg boxes, Xmas holidays, various illnesses, and me going away for a weekend is the cause of this. In case anyone cares ...

[sinkingfast]

at orange/pumpkin loaf

[NotQuiteCockney]

Here. It's a really good recipe. I use half wholemeal flour and half white. And substitute cranberries for the raisins. But it's tasty, done according to the recipe, too.

[Pacific]

I have just had the same problem. I peel and stew all the fruit together creating some seriously weird combinations! Then freeze in small pots for future use.

[NotQuiteCockney]

Oh, I was deffo going to peel and core it, I know I can't freeze them whole.

Right, off to find out what's in the giant pile of fruit ...

[NotQuiteCockney]

I've gone through it. Apples, ok, I'll make applesauce, that works. A few pears, not sure what to do with those, but there are clear options.

Mangoes will just get eaten, no need to do anything there.

My problem fruit: I have oranges and kiwis. WTF do I do with these?

[bronze]

stewed fruit is fine to freeze

[NotQuiteCockney]

But ... can you stew kiwi and orange?

And if I did that, what would Ｉdo with it?

Web searches are leading me to believe I can peel and dice kiwi, freeze, and then use in smoothies?

[bronze]

Could you candy the oranges?

[NotQuiteCockney]

Hmmm .. I tend towards low-gi food. I'm suspecting candied oranges wouldn't make the cut ...

Online stuff indicates I can freeze oranges, just have to peel + segment them, which doesn't sound disastrous. I tend to make smoothies with milk in them, though, so orange is unlikely to be useful for that. Frozen orange might be nice to eat as is?

[bronze]

mmm yeah in summer I imagine they would be quite tasty