Build a Solar System Plate inspired by Caroline Herschel

This is one in a series of posts honoring Women’s History Month. Each post celebrates a woman of note & encourages readers to explore their own creativity…

Inspiration

Caroline Lucretia Herschel was a German astronomer who discovered several comets. She was the first woman to receive a salary as a scientist and the first woman in England to hold a government position.

Build a Solar System Plate

Materials

• Sun: Slice from a boiled egg

• Mercury: Blueberry

• Venus: Sliced raspberry for Venus

• Earth: Dry apricot

• Mars: Sliced strawberry

• Jupiter: Slice of apple

• Saturn: Slice of kiwi

• Uranus: Slice of plum

• Neptune: Slice of banana

• 1 tbsp cream cheese

Directions

1. Start with sun right at the center

2. Fill up the cream cheese in an icing bag and pipe out 8 concentric circles around the sun for the 8 orbits

3. Place the fruit slices to represent the planets

adapted from Orange Kitchens