Easter Charcuterie Board
Servings: 12 servings
Gather together all of your Easter basket goodies and assemble an Easter Charcuterie Board for your friends and family. It's such an easy way to serve up dessert after dinner, because everything is ready to go, and there's no mess or fuss. All you need is a bunch of napkins and cups of hot coffee for everyone, because coffee and chocolate cannot be beat!
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Ingredients
- 2 large solid chocolate bunnies
- 8 small lemon tarts
- 6 two-bite brownies
- 6 lofthouse cookies
- 4 mini cupcakes
- 3 chocolate marshmallow eggs
- 2 Oh Henry Bars
- 10 mini Cadbury bunnies
- 3 KitKat bunnies
- 8 mini Lindt Chocolate bunnies
- 6 Cadbury Creme Eggs
- 8 hollow chocolate eggs
- 1 cup Reece's Mini Peanut Butter Cups
- 1 cup Marshmallow Creme Eggs
- 1/2 cup Hershey's White Chocolate Speckled Eggs
- 1/2 cup Chocolate M&Ms
- 1/2 cup Peanut M&Ms
- 1/2 cup mini chocolate eggs
- 1/2 cup Cadbury Mini Eggs
- 1/2 cup chocolate covered almonds
Instructions
- When I start to build the board, I want to create a centerpiece or a focal point, like I mentioned previously. I’m using two solid chocolate bunnies that I propped up with food-safe pink paper grass. Note that I also nestled small bowls of candy coated chocolates under the ears of each large chocolate bunny. The paper grass will evenly flatten under the weight, but the bowls will keep the bunnies slightly elevated.
- The thing about assembling a charcuterie board is that you can easily move things around is something doesn’t work, visually speaking, for you. I like to start with placing the baked goods on the board first. You won’t want to move your baked goods around too much, because you run the risk of breaking them or mussing up their finish. Get those into place first, before moving on to the chocolates and candies.
- Next, let’s set the little serving bowls into place. On this board, I’m using a total of five bowls. I have a bowl of regular M&Ms, a bowl of peanut M&Ms, a bowl of marshmallow creme eggs, a bowl of Hershey’s white chocolate speckled eggs, and finally, a bowl of Reece’s Peanut Butter Cups. Two of those are individually wrapped and didn’t need bowls, but using bowls creates texture and keeps things in one place too.
- When that is done, it’s time to fill in the gaps. This is where I use a lot of wrapped confections. I have a bunch of purple foiled wrapped Cadbury bunnies, larger hollow chocolate eggs, a few Cadbury Creme Eggs, some mini Lindt Chocolate Bunnies, and some mini foil-wrapped chocolate eggs. I also placed a few unwrapped KitKat bunnies in a standing up position, once again, creating height.
- Finally, it’s time to add some decorative touches. This is optional, but I included a bunch of wooden beaded carrots on the side of the board. This makes the board look bigger and creates the image that there is so much on the board that it is spilling over. I also placed a few string-wrapped decorating carrots around the board, and some craft store babies breath and daisies. These just add a spring-like look. Charcuterie boards are all about the food, but they can be pretty too, right!?