Wonderful Watermelon: How to Make a Watermelon Basket and More

Posted by Hillary on July 8th, 2010 at 03:54pm

Love watermelon?  Who doesn’t!  Watermelon is the perfect summer fruit.  You can do a variety of things with such a vibrant, tasty food.

One of the super fun things to make out of your watermelon is a watermelon basket.  RecipeLion shows you how to make a quality watermelon basket with Melon Mayhem: How to Carve a Watermelon Basket.  This helpful article is packed full of tips on how to carve the perfect basket, as well as several fruit salad recipes when your basket is completed and ready for stuffing.

Bella So Savvy shows us in her Making a Watermelon Basket blog how to make her version of a watermelon basket.  Her basket is very cute and includes nine different fruits!

This Fresh Fruit Salad recipe doesn’t call for watermelon, but you can surely add it for extra fruit taste.  It’s the perfect recipe to fill your watermelon basket with.

Is watermelon one of your favorite fruits, or does everyone you know refer to you as “the watermelon lover”?  Well, I bet ya didn’t know there are 18 different kinds of watermelon!

There’s the smaller watermelon respectively called the sugar baby, the golden midget, a three-pound watermelon that turns yellow when ripe, the cream of Saskatchewan, which is a rare  and cream-colored melon, usually weighing ten pounds, as well as 15 other types.  Read about the rest of the many types of watermelons at the Kitchn blog.

Hopefully this blog has given you some handy dandy tips on how to make a watermelon basket and what to put in it!

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