Halloween Cheese Board
This Halloween Charcuterie Board is an Instagram-worthy showstopper. It's super easy to assemble with spooky snacks that will be loved by monsters of all ages.
Ingredients
- 8 ounce brie cheese round
- 2 small decorative fresh or artificial pumpkins
- Decorations like plastic spiders, bloody knife cupcake toppers and plastic skulls and skeleton hands (optional)
- 3 ounces thinly sliced capicola
- 6 ounces thinly sliced spicy salami like chorizo Iberico and/or Spianata Piccante
- 4 ounces soft ripened French cheese like Le Pico
- 2 ounces blue cheese like a wedge of Stilton
- 2 ounces hard sheep's milk cheese like Cacio di Bosco, cubed
- 2 ounces fresh mozzarella pearls
- 8 fresh figs halved
- 1 cup Castelvetrano olives
- ¾ cup blackberries
- ¾ cup caramel corn
- ¾ cup trail mix fall hued, if you can find it
- ½ cup Cheez-It crackers
- ½ cup dried apricots
- ½ cup walnuts
- ⅓ cup candy corn
- 1 box water crackers 4 ounces
- 1 package Bruschettini toasts 4 ounces
- 8 Trader Joe's mini pumpkin spice cookies
- ¼ cup raspberry preserves
- ¼ cup pomegranate arils
- Candy eyeballs optional
- Handful of Trader Joe's Ghosts & Bats crispy potato snacks
- Seasonal flowers for garnish (optional)
Instructions
- Use small Halloween shaped cookie cutters to cut shapes from brie round. Save brie scraps for another use.
- Arrange pumpkins, plastic skulls (if using), and all meats and cheeses, including brie shapes, on large platter or board.
- Arrange figs, olives, blackberries, caramel corn, trail mix, Cheez-Its, dried apricots, walnuts, candy corn, crackers, Bruschettini and cookies around meats and cheeses.
- Spoon raspberry preserves over soft ripened French cheese, and sprinkle with pomegranate arils.
- Use candy eyeballs to garnish mozzarella pearls. Decorate platter with ghost and bat potato crispy snacks, more Halloween decorations and flowers.
Notes
- It’s important that the brie cheese you’re going to cut is COLD when you cut it. After you cut it, you can let it warm to room temp for the best flavor and ooziness, but it needs to be fresh out of the fridge when you cut it.
- I used small Halloween cookie cutters to cut ghost and bat shapes from the brie for my easy charcuterie board. Now, most likely, the cheese will be taller than your cookie cutter, so it takes a bit of muscle and determination to get the shapes cut out for this spooky charcuterie board.
- It helps to use a small paring knife to cut some of the excess cheese away from the cutter, and then just keep gently pressing on the cutter until it goes most of the way through the cheese.
Calories: 567kcal, Carbohydrates: 59g, Protein: 18g, Fat: 31g, Saturated Fat: 12g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g, Monounsaturated Fat: 9g, Trans Fat: 0.1g, Cholesterol: 62mg, Sodium: 1229mg, Potassium: 351mg, Fiber: 5g, Sugar: 27g, Vitamin A: 635IU, Vitamin C: 4mg, Calcium: 185mg, Iron: 2mg
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