Looking for Christmas charcuterie board ideas to spruce up your holiday table? Although the traditional charcuterie board features savory finger foods like sliced sausages, cheese, crackers, olives, etc., it’s also a pretty effective presentation method for whatever foods you choose—including Christmas-y treats, and even desserts!
Before you start to work on the party menu, if you’re not planning to have it at your own home, make sure you’ve nailed down the location of your holiday party. Searching Peerspace is one of the best ways to find Christmas party venues near you, as it’s the largest online marketplace for hourly space rentals, with more than ten thousand listings based in cities across the US, the UK, Europe, Australia, Canada, and beyond. It’s worth finding a place you truly love, as the location of your party makes a huge difference in your guests’ experience (as does the food you serve).
To make your next Christmas gathering complete—and ensure your guests rave about how great the food was at your gathering—here are 15 festive and inspiring Christmas charcuterie board ideas!
Our first Christmas charcuterie board idea centers around the iconic symbol of the Christmas tree, created with your favorite assortment of salami, olives, cubed cheese, cherry tomatoes, and the like. Don’t forget to cut a star out of cheese for the top of the tree!
Instead of using a regular rectangular or circular wooden charcuterie board, purchase one in the shape of a tree to make preparing your “charcuter-TREE” that much simpler. You can find lots of beautiful handmade examples of these on Etsy, like this one from Umbrella Woodworking.
Building your charcuterie spread using a wooden board in the shape of a gingerbread man is another easy and fun Christmas charcuterie board idea!
Speaking of gingerbread men—you could even use your gingerbread man charcuterie board as the base of your gingerbread charcuterie board to really keep the theme going! It’s hard to imagine anything more Christmasy than this.
We’ll keep the sweet charcuterie board thing going by suggesting this Grinch dessert board, which uses M&Ms, green grapes, sliced kiwis, and other green foods for his green head, strawberries, and white chocolate-covered pretzels for his red and white Santa hat, and other snacks arranged to look just like this iconic green party pooper!
