Dessert Charcuterie Board
An easy to assemble dessert board of fruit, cookies, nuts, and other yummy items!
Servings: 8 servings
Ingredients
- Fresh Fruit
- Cookies (I used 2 different varieties)
- Nuts (I used chocolate covered nuts)
- Dip like ganache or caramel
- Something Chocolate I added chocolate bark and chocolate covered pretzels
- other items to add: dried fruit, or caramel popcorn,
Instructions
- Decide on your theme.
- Choose your board and extra dishes
- Add a centerpiece...but you don't have to! (My centerpiece was a bowl of New England Country Mart's caramel popcorn!)
- Plate your bowls first. Bowls also help add height as well!
- Fill your bowls.
- Add the rest of your treats.
- Sprinkle in nuts and candies wherever you see some holes, and as needed.
Notes
- Aim For Variety!
- Fresh fruit
- Something salty to balance out the sweetness
- Pre-made/Homemade dessert items (like cookies!)
- Something chocolate of course
- Sauces/spread for dipping
- Coffee and cocoa to go with it!
- Don't Forget The Dishes! Use a large enough platter to hold all of your items. Use small serving dishes for certain items - it's good to have certain sauces obviously in small bowls, but also to keep certain items for going everywhere it might be helpful to have these in small dishes as well.
- Go For Height! - For each item I like to make a big pile of them as opposed to keep it flat. Like making a big pile of strawberries.
- Use dishes. If items can't be stacked, I put them in a dish, like blueberries and caramel popcorn.
- Add color. I love choosing items of different colors like the yellow mango, purple grapes, and red raspberries.
- Pay attention to arrangement. I like to space out the colorful items. So that means I didn't want the red raspberries next to the red strawberries. And space out one chocolate item from another so they aren't clustered together.