Tips For Making Your Assorted Gift Basket a Holiday Centerpiece

If you’re planning to include an assorted gift basket or citrus gift basket into your holiday presentation, whether at the dining table or elsewhere in the celebration, of course you’re already thinking about how your gift basket will make the most impact. Because there’s so much potential to be had in every assorted gift basket and citrus fruit basket, you might have a hard time deciding how best to take advantage of all its charming and beautiful features.

Consider the following strategies as merely “brain food” for getting your assorted gift basket or citrus fruit basket on to “center stage” at your holiday celebration. With these tips you’ll be able to personalize your presentation with your own distinctive embellishments, so your friends, family and guests will know you’re the creative inspiration behind all its lovely charms.

Use a fruit tower instead of a gift basket.

Fruit baskets are the traditional way of conveying fruit to your guests, and the citrus fruit basket and assorted gift basket will always be a favorite at holiday parties. However, the recent innovation of the fruit tower gives guests an impressive, vertically-based fruit presentation that rises above all your other citrus fruit and holiday dining spread attractions. Fruit towers hold the same amount of fruit as gift baskets and fruit baskets commonly used the holidays, but with an important difference in height. They often resemble pyramids of fruit, like you’d see in a very luxurious hotel or gala ballroom celebration.

Fruit towers are also often priced comparably to traditional fruit baskets for the holidays and assorted gift baskets, so they’re probably little to no additional expense outlay that needs to be made when ordering. And like the traditional fruit basket, they’re available in both assorted varieties as well as one-kind-only fruit assortments.

Make gift basket presentation the hub of a “wheel of food.”

For larger spreads, it’s easy to let everything get too cluttered and too “all over the place” as you put everything out for the guests. To get around such confusion, arrange all your foods and delicacies in a wheel pattern, with your holiday citrus fruit basket or assorted gift basket as the main “hub.” Your guests will appreciate the organization, since it lets them load up on your hospitality with convenience and speed. You’ll be able to track what foods get depleted, too, seeing at a glance what needs restocking.

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