The best dessert charcuterie board idea for all your gatherings! A platter loaded with a beautiful variety of sweets such as chocolate, candies, fruit, cookies and dips.
Check out our Veggie Platter or Fruit Charcuterie board for more board ideas for your next gathering.
DESSERT CHARCUTERIE BOARD
Making a dessert charcuterie board is such a fun and easy way to serve dessert for your gatherings or social events! The array of different desserts is arranged beautifully on a platter where everyone can pick what they like to enjoy. You are going to love this dessert idea, and it will be your go-to for all your parties.
| What is a charcuterie board? A classic charcuterie board is an arrangement of preserved cheeses and meats, served as an appetizer or snack. There are so many different charcuterie board themes that have become popular, a dessert board being one of them! |
DESSERT BOARD IDEAS
There aren’t specific ingredients that you need to make this platter. You can add literally anything you like to this board, just have fun with it! Here are some different groups that you can add to your platter:
- Fun Desserts– As the main filler, be sure to add a ton of delicious snackable desserts. Such as Milano’s, Nilla Wafers, wafers, Pirouline wafer sticks, biscotti’s, graham crackers, stroopwafel, cannoli shells, or any other baked goodies you like.
- Cookies– Adding cookies to your board is always a must! Chocolate chip cookies, Oreos, thin mints, Girl Scout Cookies, Biscoff Cookies, Danish Butter cookies, or any other cookies! You can even add homemade chocolate chip cookies or even smores cookies!
- Candy– Adding random chocolate candies is a great filler and who can say no to candy? Candies like chocolate bars, peanut butter cups, Hershey kisses, M&Ms, or any other high-quality candy. If you love the colorful, fruity candies, then make a Candy Board with all your favorite candies!
- Fruit– Another great filler is fruit! Strawberries, cherries, blueberries, or grapes work great! Be sure to add fruits that will go with the theme of your board. We don’t recommend adding juicy fruit, like watermelon, or it will leak and make all the other items soggy.
- Bites– We love adding different bites to our dessert board. Bites such as cheesecake bites, peanut butter bites or even cake pops!
- Salty Snacks– To even out the sweetness, don’t be shy and add some salty snacks! Snacks like popcorn, pretzels, salted nuts, and even crackers.
- Dips– You also want to add some dessert dips to spice up the platter! Here are some ideas: cannoli dip, Nutella Biscoff spread, cookie dough dip, chocolate hummus, chocolate dip, and cream cheese fruit dip.
HOW TO ASSEMBLE A DESSERT BOARD
There are no steps on the assembly of your dessert board, you can arrange as you desire. Here are some tips:
- Choose your board– Depending on the number of people you are hosting depends on the size of the platter you are going to make! You can use either a round wooden cutting board or a square platter.
- Bowls and Ramekins– Start by adding your dips and any other things into small decorative bowls and ramekins. Then arrange them all throughout the platter.
- Main Ingredients– Arrange all your main ingredients around the bowls in a beautiful manner.
- Fillers– Add your fillers such as your candies, fruit, and salty snacks where you need to make the platter look complete.
STORING & PREPPING
We do not recommend assembling the platter ahead of time. To avoid the desserts from going stale, you want it to be assembled right before serving. If you want to prep, you can prep by making your dips and adding them into the decorative bowls. This recipe is so easy to make that you don’t even need to do it ahead of time!
CHARCUTERIE BOARD IDEAS
What makes this dessert such a great idea is that it is totally customizable depending on the occasion or holiday!
HOLIDAY THEMES
- Christmas– Make it Christmas themed by adding peppermint, cranberries and other even gingerbread cookies! Add your favorite holiday flavors for the ultimate Christmas dessert board.
- Valentine’s Day– Load up the platter with red, pink, and chocolate for a fun Valentine’s Day platter!
- Easter– Make a colorful pastel arranged board for Easter! Add macarons, easter egg candies, Easter candies, bunny sugar cookies and more.
- Freedom Holidays– Make platters for 4th of July and Memorial Day! Make it red, white and blue themed by adding berries, white chocolate, blue icing cupcakes, sugar cookies, and other color-themed desserts.
Best Dessert Charcuterie Board
Ingredients
Dips-
- nutella spread
- peanut butter
- cream cheese fruit dip
- pumpkin dip
Desserts-
- graham crackers
- hazelnut mini wafers
- waffle cones
- mini stroopwafels
- pirouline sticks
- fruit
Salty Snacks & Candy-
- pretzels
- chocolate bar
- chocolate covered almonds
Fruit-
- strawberries
- plums
- cherries
Instructions
- Add your dips and any other small foods into small decorative bowls and ramekins.
- Arrange the bowls to the platter or wooden board, spreading the bowls throughout the board.
- Arrange the main ingredients around the bowls, arranging them to look aesthetically pleasing.
- Add your fillers such as your candies, fruit, and salty snacks where you need to make the platter look complete.
- Serve.
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