Description
This ultimate show-stopping Christmas Tree Charcuterie Board recipe idea creates a stunning and tasty holiday party centerpiece. Nothing brings instant holiday cheer like this Christmas charcuterie board shaped like a Christmas tree. It’s loaded with everyone’s favourite grazing foods like meats, cheeses crackers, fruit and nuts.
Ingredients
- Sliced salami (Gallo Salame thin sliced light Italian dry salami, 7 ounce package)
- Sliced salami (Gallo Salame thin sliced peppered salami, 6 ounce package)
- Sliced prosciutto (Del Duca cured prosciutto, 6 ounce tray)
- Salami wrapped mozzarella (Fiorucci Hard Salami and Mozzarella Panino, 6 count)
- Prosciutto wrapped mozzarella (Formaggio Cheese Prosciutto and Mozzarella Wrap, 7 count)
- Brie cheese round (President Brie soft-ripened cheese, 8 ounce round)
- Brie cheese wedge (President Brie cheese, 7 ounce triangle wedge)
- Boursin spreadable cheese (Boursin garlic & herb cheese puck, 5.2 ounce)
- Marinated fresh mozzarella balls (Great Value, 12 ounce tub)
- Fresh mozzarella pearls (Belgioso mini snacking cheese pearls, 8 ounce tub)
- 8 ounce block Pepper Jack cheese, cut into 1-inch cubes
- 8 ounce block Colby Jack cheese, cut into 1-inch cubes
- 10 ounce jar stuffed manzanilla olives
- 6 ounce can pitted medium black olives
- 1-2 apples, cored and sliced
- Fresh raspberries
- Fresh blackberries
- Dried apricots
- Red and black grapes
- Assorted round crackers (Toasteds Variety Pack, 12 ounce box)
- Assorted tray of sweet nuts and chocolate covered nuts
- 3 cups pretzel mini twists
- 12 pretzel rods, cut in half, for the tree trunk
- 1 cup mixed berry jam, for filling the brie cheese round
- 1 cup honey, for drizzling over cheese
- Fresh rosemary, for creating and decorating the tree
Instructions
- Prepare the cheese. Cut the pepper jack and colby jack blocks into 1-inch cubes. Use a star cookie cutter to make a star shape in the brie cheese. Remove the center of the star and then fill with cranberry sauce, jam, or honey.
- Use a sharp knife to cut the pretzel rods in half. These will be used for the tree trunk.
- Prepare the salami roses. Layer the salami into a curved line and fan it out. Roll it and then use a toothpick to keep it together. Make the roses big or small by rolling different amounts of slices. Repeat with the remaining salami.
- Once the cheese, pretzel, and salami roses are prepared, lay down a large sheet of grazing table paper. Then make an outline of the bottom of the tree with the fresh rosemary. You can continue to adjust the tree as you go along. Stack the pretzels underneath to make the trunk. You can use a food safe twine to hold it together if desired or just carefully stack them. Place the brie round at the very top where the star would go. This will give you an idea of how big you want the tree to be.
- Add the Boursin cheese spread and sliced meats to the board. I like to space them all out and put them on opposite ends, just zigzagging them down the tree.
- Add the crackers and pretzels around the board in different places.
- Add the cubed cheese and sliced brie, just slowly starting to fill up the open spaces.
- Add some mozzarella balls and olives around the edges.
- Start adding fresh fruit to the remaining open areas and then fill the gaps with nuts and dried fruit.
- Adjust and top the sections off with more ingredients if needed to make it look fuller and to even out the tree.
- Add more herbs on the bottom and insert some off to the sides. Continue to adjust until it looks just right!
- Serve with some extra jam and honey. Enjoy!
Notes
Storage instructions:
For food safety if perishable items like cheese and meat have been out for more than 2 to 3 hours it is best to discard them. Please refer to the USDA food safety tips guide.
It is best to store your meats, cheeses, olives and fruit in the fridge to keep fresh until ready to prepare the board and then serve immediately. Store any leftovers if ok by wrapping the meats, cheese, olives and fruit all separately in the fridge for up to 2 days.
You will need fresh rosemary sprigs for creating the tree, a large serving board or grazing table paper and a star cookie cutter, to make a cutout in the brie to fill with jam to make this recipe.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Appetizer
- Method: No Bake
- Cuisine: American
