How to Make a Valentine's Day Charcuterie Board

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With very little effort, you can make a stunning Valentine's Day Charcuterie Board! Here's how I made mine, plus a ton of ideas for yours!

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.
In this case, it was Salami roses, ham rosebuds, a wheel of brie, and different sized heart shaped bowls of dips and munchies.
Place your other meats roughly where you’d like them to go, then place your cheeses.

Arrange sections of your starches - crackers, cookies, bread. In this case, I used 2 different kinds of crackers, and white chocolate dipped pretzels.
Fill in your sections of the more “snacky” produce. In this case, that's the strawberries, raspberries, and red grapes.
Place sections of your “Munchies” items, filling in any larger empty spaces. This is the blanched almonds and foil covered chocolates 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 fresh mint leaves to bring a pop of contrasting colour to the board.
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.