Though splashing cocktail-making ingredients may not be your first instinct as you stir together fruit salad, it's a culinary move well worth consideration.

This should set up nicely and include many luscious fruit cocktail chunks, the pineapple of our youth, and a few marshmallows ...

Then carefully spoon all the fruit salad back into the scooped-out melon ... and carefully attach these to the melon with two cocktail sticks. You could even add some red grape slices or even ...