Watermelon fruit bowls are perfect for any party or holiday because they look so beautiful especially when you use theme shaped mini cutter to shape the fruits.
They are easy to make and look super impressive on your party or holiday tables.
Easy simple instructions and if your love food art I am sure you will come up with even more delicious ideas and shapes for your next birthday or special occasions.
I love the conversation this watermelon fruit bowl makes any time I make it, we just won't tell them how easy it is to make and keep them thinking how talented I am!
I have a printable recipe card below to give you these super easy instructions to follow with fruit suggestions and soon you'll be the talk of your party!
Colorful Fruit Bowl!
My favorite part of dressing up my Holiday table is preparing something easy and festive.
If you're looking for a way to show off, this would be a simple dessert to bring and wow your guests!
This fruit bowl can be any shape you want it to be.
Any party theme will be the talk of the buffet table and the perfect centerpiece!
Great Creative with fruits!
Using a carved-out watermelon for a bowl is a festive creative treat!
You can use any fruits you like and using cookie cutters to cut out various shapes makes this watermelon bowl a fun treat to eat!
Fun for the kids too!
The kids will love helping you cut out fun shapes.
You can make this fruit bowl for any kind of party using a cookie cutter to fit the theme of your party!
What kid wouldn't love all animals cut out into friends to make a festive zoo party!
Easy Cutout Mini Appetizer Shaped for Fruits
Whether it's Christmas, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Halloween, or a Patriotic holiday, these mini-shaped cutters will be perfect for any shape you need for your fruit bowl.
Just pick out fruit colors to match the theme and colors for the perfect party or holiday fruit bowl shapes. See the link to purchase 20-piece shaped mini cutters here is the Amazon Link.
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Creative Holiday Color Suggestions
- Patriotic Colors: red, white, and blue fruits (blueberries, blue grapes, blackberries, strawberries, cherries, red raspberries, watermelon, and pineapple are all good choices
- Christmas: green and red ( kiwi, strawberries, cherries, red raspberries, and watermelon are good choices)
- Easter: lighter colors yellow, blue, orange (cantaloupe, peaches, mango, oranges, pineapple, rainier cherries)
- Thanksgiving: yellow, orange, and darker fruits (pineapple, melons. apples, mango, oranges, bosc pears)
- Halloween: orange, yellow, and dark fruits (pineapple, melons. apples, mango, blood oranges, pears,
- St.Patricks Day: green, yellow, (pineapple, kiwi) shamrock shapes
- See all fruit list suggestions below
Fruit Suggestions For Any Themed Holiday(just coordinate the colors and shapes):
- green grapes red grapes blue grapes
- sliced plums
- sliced peaches
- pear slices
- fresh cherries pits removed and sliced
- firm bananas soaked in lemon juice and sliced
- sliced apples soaked in lemon juice
- large navel orange or mandarin oranges
- raspberries
- blackberries
- boysenberries
- starfruit
- watermelon, or other melon like cantaloupe or honeydew
- pineapple fresh and cut the long way
- mango
- papaya
- other fruits you may find in your Region
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Watermelon Salad
Watermelon Sorbet
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Easy Food Art Watermelon Fruit Bowl
This is a fun centerpiece and conversation piece along with being healthy and delicious!
The nice part about it is you can change the shapes to any party theme, have fun with this and the kids will have a blast helping you make the shapes.
Watermelon Fruit Bowl
Yield: 1
Prep time: 45 MinInactive time: 1 HourTotal time: 1 H & 45 M
This is a hollowed-out watermelon used as a bowl for assorted fruits. Perfect cut-out fruits to match an party theme,
Ingredients
- Choose assorted fruits that match the holiday or party color theme.
- You can add sugar to taste or a sugar-free sweetener, we leave the fruit plain as is and mixed together adding nothing else.
- Tools: assorted miniature small-shaped appetizer cutters in various shapes, stars, leaves, anything you want to match the party theme or holiday, etc.
- Choose fruits that can be sliced and cut into shapes
- any melons IE: cantaloupe or honeydew watermelon or pineapple cut lengthwise are good choices
- Apples, pears bananas will require being dipped into lemon juice to prevent browning.
- Blueberries for Red, White, and Blue use blue grapes or blueberries
- Strawberries when cutting the stems off I then take a knife and zig-zag the edge to make it look like a flower
- Other Party Suggestions for Fruit bowls:
- Any shaped appetizer small cookie cutters: hearts, stars, pumpkins, leaf shapes, or use a small paring knife, diamond-shaped, animal shapes, or any shapes you prefer. and themed to whatever holiday.
- If you're an artist you can shape the fruit with a paring knife and cut the edges of the watermelon bowl in a zigzag edging.
- Optional Dressing (double or triple the recipe depending on how much fruit you cut up) this is for around 4 1/2 cups of fresh fruits below:
- 3 tablespoons of mayonnaise
- 3 tablespoons full-fat sour cream
- 2 teaspoons granulated sugar
- freshly squeezed orange juice
- 1 teaspoon orange zest
- Optional Garnish: 2 tablespoons freshly grated coconut on top
Instructions
- On a cutting board lined with plastic, slice a large watermelon in half using a sharp knife.
- Once it cut in half cut one half into some long round slices so you can use the slices to make small cookie cutter or appetizer shapes.
- The other side can be hollowed out using a melon ball scoop and save those to refill the bowl as the bowl needs refilling.
- We used a star-shaped appetizer cutter for shaping cantaloupe and watermelon.
- For honeydew melon ball scoop and some half-moon shapes.
- Pineapple cubed. however, you can use these sliced lengthwise and cut-out shapes.
- Blueberries and blackberries left whole.
- Sliced the strawberries.
- Any leftovers, we stored in a container and refilled the watermelon bowl as needed.
Notes
Fruit Suggestions For Any Themed Holiday(just coordinate the colors and shapes):
- green grapes red grapes blue grapes
- sliced plums
- sliced peaches
- pear slices
- fresh cherries pits removed and sliced
- firm bananas soaked in lemon juice and sliced
- sliced apples soaked in lemon juice
- large navel orange or mandarin oranges
- raspberries
- blackberries
- boysenberries
- starfruit
- watermelon, or other melon like cantaloupe or honeydew
- pineapple fresh and cut the long way
- mango
- papaya
- other fruits you may find in your Region
Creative Holiday Color Suggestions
- Patriotic Colors: red, white, and blue fruits (blueberries, blue grapes, blackberries, strawberries, cherries, red raspberries, watermelon, and pineapple are all good choices) star shape cutout
- Christmas: green and red ( kiwi, strawberries, cherries, red raspberries, and watermelon are good choices) star-shaped cutout, bells
- Easter: lighter colors yellow, blue, orange (cantaloupe, peaches, mango, oranges, pineapple, rainier cherries) bunny shapes, leaves
- Thanksgiving: yellow, orange, and darker fruits (pineapple, mango, melons. apples, oranges, bosc pears) leaves, pumpkin shapes
- Halloween: orange, yellow, and dark fruits (pineapple, melons. apples, mango, blood oranges, pears) pumpkin, hats, ghosts
- St.Patricks Day: green, yellow, (pineapple, kiwi) shamrock shapes
Nutrition Facts
Calories
176.13Fat (grams)
1.06Sat. Fat (grams)
0.08Carbs (grams)
44.66Fiber (grams)
7.67Net carbs
36.99Sugar (grams)
30.51Protein (grams)
2.56Sodium (milligrams)
3.99Cholesterol (grams)
0
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