Halloween Cheese Board
Spooky season calls for spooktacular food! My Halloween Cheese Board is the perfect char-BOO-terie tray to serve at your Halloween parties or before trick-or-treating.
Servings: 1 cheese board
Calories: 486kcal
Equipment
- Cheese board (can use a [cheese board], cutting board, serving platter, tray, or cookie sheet)
- [Cheese knives]
- Spooky holiday themed decorations (plastic spiders, candy eyeballs, skeleton hands, mini plastic skulls, mini pumpkins, etc.)
Ingredients
- Various cheeses get a mix of flavors, textures, shapes, and colors
- Salty items meats, nuts, olives, etc.
- Sweet items fruit, dried fruit, chocolate, etc.
- Crunchy items crackers, pita chips, breadsticks, etc.
- Condiments honey, mustards, chutney, etc.
- Space-filling items grapes, cherry tomatoes, cherries
Instructions
- Space the cheeses evenly across the surface of your board.
- Place any large decorative pieces (like the skeleton hand holding the olive bowl) to make sure you have enough room for them.
- Pile your salty items like meats, nuts, and olives around the cheeses. Use small bowls for things that want to roll away!
- Nestle sweet items like fruits and candies in among the savory items.
- Add piles of crackers, or serve them in a separate bowl or basket off to the side.
- Nestle in small jars or bowls of condiments such as jams and mustards.
- Fill in any empty spaces with grapes, cherries, cherry tomatoes, or Halloween decorations like small plastic skulls or spiders.
Notes
- If serving as an appetizer, I recommend one standard-size wedge/piece (4-6 ounces each) of cheese or meat per three people served.
- If serving as a main, I recommend one standard-size wedge/piece (4-6 ounces each) of cheese or meat per two people served.
- If you're short on time (or serving mostly adults), you can get away with not pre-slicing your cheese. Instead, we put the uncut pieces of cheese on the tray with cheese knives so that guests can slice to whatever thickness they'd like.
- If you are serving a bunch of little goblins, you might want to pre-slice or pre-cube your cheese so little hands can quickly grab their snack without having to ask an adult to help with the knife.
Nutrition
Serving: 1ounce salami, 2 ounces cheese, 10 crackers | Calories: 486kcal | Carbohydrates: 20g | Protein: 22.2g | Fat: 35.2g | Saturated Fat: 16.4g | Cholesterol: 89mg | Sodium: 1092mg | Potassium: 95mg | Fiber: 0.5g | Sugar: 0.8g | Calcium: 440mg | Iron: 2mg
