Tips For Making The Most of Your Fruit Basket Centerpiece

If you’re planning a holiday celebration for your friends and family, the fruit basket makes a perfect centerpiece to all the other foods and desserts you’ll serve them. The classic holiday spread, when arranged artfully and creatively, can be the hub of your family’s celebration time, the place where everyone gathers to enjoy not just each other’s company but also the fine food you’ve prepared for them. As you plan your holiday spread, consider some of the ideas and arrangement strategies presented below. You’ll probably find one that fits your design ideas to a perfect tee.

Make a wheel with the assorted fruit basket as the hub.

A design scheme that works best with larger tables, the wheel design places your assorted gift basket for the holidays into the center of the table and then extends the other food dishes out in a straight line away from them. You keep all your servings within easy reach, and the lovely decoration of the assorted fruit basket serves to anchor everything into place.

Make a “food necklace” with the fruit basket as the pendant.

This idea works best for medium sized spreads. Arrange all the foods into a shallow “U” design, similar to a necklace displayed in a jeweler’s showcase. The fruit basket is placed in the middle, the gemstone or pendant to all the other servings. You can place serving dishes, beverages, and other miscellaneous items “inside” the necklace, keeping everything within easy reach.

Make the fruit basket the center of your food “solar system.”

Ideal for spreads with just a few carefully-chosen items, the solar system model uses your assorted fruit gift basket as the sun while arranging each dish in a separate spot around the table, like orbiting planets. This arrangement maximizes space while at the same time leaves you room to include drinks and silverware anywhere you like.

Make the fruit basket your greeting centerpiece.

Fruit baskets for the holidays don’t have to appear on the dining presentation table at all to be enjoyed by every guest. Gift fruit baskets can also appear in a foyer, on a kitchen table, or in a front hallway, so that guests will see them as they arrive and depart. Their bright colors and rich textures will make guests feel welcome and right at home, and they can take a piece of fruit with them as they leave, to enjoy later.

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