How to Make a Festive Christmas Charcuterie Board

5 from 1 vote

This festive Christmas charcuterie board is tasty, elegant, and customizable. The best part? It’s so much fun to make, and fairly low effort!

Prep Time20

Total Time20

Course: Appetizer

Cuisine: French

Diet: Diabetic, Gluten Free

Servings: Person

Calories: 693kcal

Author: Marie Porter

3 oz Cured or smoked meats see post for suggestions
3 oz Cheese see post for suggestions
Crackers see post for suggestions
Produce Sauces, Snack Items, and Garnishes as desired - see post for suggestions.

Place your focal point items - wheels or chunks of cheese, sauce ramekins, dip bowls, etc - on the charcuterie tray.
Situate your meats roughly where you’d like them to go, then place your cheeses.

Arrange sections of your starches - crackers, cookies, bread.
Fill in your sections of the more “snacky” produce, leaving more “garnish” produce for a later step. In this example, that means placing the grapes, figs, and cherry tomatoes now, and saving the sugared cranberries and rosemary for the finishing touches.
Place sections of your “Munchies” items, filling in any larger empty spaces. This is the cornichons and mixed nuts, on the charcuterie board as pictured.

Arrange your meat and cheese slices more artfully, if desired.
Fill in any sparsely covered areas with more meat, cheese, produce, etc.
Add dips to the bowls, if applicable, then garnish as desired - I used rosemarie springs and sugared cranberries.
Serve and enjoy!

Nutritional information will vary wildly based on what you serve, and how much you're serving along with the charcuterie board.

Amounts listed are just standard suggestions, and can be used to estimating amounts of food to order, per guest.