As always, gather up your materials first! The dates and the limes must be stolen from NPC shops. The bananas you can buy at the Inn.

1) Place the empty basket where you want your full fruit basket to go. Lock it down.

2) Stack the crate on top of the basket

3) Load fruit into the crate in the Following order: Peach, Date, Cut limes, Bananas (in a single stack) Date, Peach.
 
 

4) Pop the crate with the Axe. The fruit will all fall into the basket.

5) Lock down all visible fruit. You soul dbe able to see 1 date, 1 peach, the bananas and the limes.

6) Run out of the house. Go all the way off the steps, a screen away, so that entering the house again will cause the house decorations to reload.

7) Go back inside. The other date and the other peach will have floated to the top. Lock them both down.

8) Stack the pear on top and lock it.

9) Stack the apple on top and lock it.

I actually kind of prefer the fake fruit basket to the real, as it looks “fuller.” You can also use the fake one as sneaky secure…just be careful you do not eat the fruit out of it when you open it!