Best 3 Baby In A Bassinet Fruit Center Piece Recipes

BABY IN A BASSINET FRUIT CENTER PIECE

Steps:

• 1. Cut watermelon into shape of bassinet by using sharp straight edge knife and pencil to draw straight lines. Clean all watermelon out leaving a little pink on sides..Use cut up watermelon with your other fruit to fill..
• 2. Peel cantaloupe and shape into face use second cantaloupe and a melon baller to shape a nose and two ears attach with toothpicks...Pick two blueberry's for eyes attach the same way. Cut hole for pacifier insert and there ya have it a baby's face..Put inside watermelon.
• 3. Peel and clean rest of fruit.. Mix up in large bowl add to watermelon bassinet put fruit in as you were covering a baby making a blanket.
• 4. Take 4 large oranges slice and four red grapes attach to side of watermelon for wheels.
• 5. Put extra fruit in side bowl for everyone to enjoy! Because no one will want to eat the center piece! :)

CASCADING FRUIT CENTERPIECE

Steps:

• 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 19x15-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.

WATERMELON BABY CARRIAGE

Steps:

• With a sharp knife, cut a thin slice from bottom of melon so it sits flat. Lightly score a horizontal line halfway up sides and around the melon, leaving 5 in. from one end unmarked on each side for baby carriage hood., For hood, make another line around top of watermelon, connecting both sides of the horizontal line. Using the rounded edge of a biscuit cutter as a guide, mark a scalloped edge along all straight lines. With a long sharp knife, cut into melon along the scalloped lines, making sure to cut all the way through the melon rind. Gently pull off rind. Remove fruit from melon and removed section; cut fruit into balls or cubes and set aside., For the U-shaped handle, cut out a 5-in. square from the removed section of rind. Cut out the center and one end, leaving a 1-in.-wide handle. Break one toothpick in half. Attach handle to watermelon with toothpick halves., For wheels, position orange slices at base of watermelon and attach with toothpicks. To each orange slice with a lime slice and a red grape., In a large bowl, combine the cantaloupe, green grapes, strawberries, remaining red grapes and reserved watermelon. Spoon into baby carriage. Serve with poppy seed salad dressing.