Christmas Cheese Board
It's the festive season and what better way to celebrate than creating your own Christmas Cheese Board? The perfect treat for any special day, a festive family after-dinner treat or a boxing day grazing platter. Put together a deliciously festive cheese and biscuits, dried fruits and nuts. Add a few seasonal festive touches such as cranberry sauce, dates and gingerbread men to make it extra special. Creating your own Christmas cheese board will enable more personalization with the ability to create something unique to suit your family!Read the blog post for other good cheese selections to include on your cheese board platter.
Ingredients
- 200 gram Brie (wheel)
- 200 gram Vintage Cheddar
- 150 gram Stilton
- 100 gram Smoked Cheese
- 100 gram Wensleydale with Cranberries
- 100 grams Red Leicester
- 150 grams Boursin
- 100 grams Port Wine Derby
- 4 Figs
- 100 grams Dates
- Bunch Red Grapes
- Bunch Green Grapes
- Handful Dried Cranberries
- Handful Walnuts
- Handful Pistachio
- Handful Wasabi Coated Peanuts
- 70 grams Carrs Cheddar Melts
- 70 grams Hovis Digestives
- 60 grams Water biscuits
- 70 grams Ritz
- 70 grams Breadsticks
- 60 grams Ryvita Thins
- 40 grams Mini Gingerbread Men
- 2 tbsp Sweet Chilli Jam
- 2 tbsp Caramelised Onion
- 2 tbsp Pickle
- 2 tbsp Cranberry Sauce
- Handful Whole Fresh Cranberries
- Pine cones
- Christmas Foliage
- Glass bottles with twinkle lights
Instructions
- 1
Decorate: Begin by decorating the board you are using as the grazing platter, we used festive foliage.
- 2
Brie: Optional- Use a cookie cutter to make a Christmas-shaped hole into the mini brie wheel and fill it with cranberry sauce.
- 3
Cheese: Start adding the bigger items to the cheese board first, cheeses and fruits.The cheeses we have included here are a guide, but you can mix them up to suit your guest preferences.
- 4
Chutney: Transfer chutney, pickles and jams into small dishes to add to the platter.
- 5
Crackers: Place different crackers, biscuits and breadsticks around the cheeses.
- 6
Nuts: Add the smaller items like dried fruits and nuts in any gaps between the fruits, cheese and biscuits
- 7
Serve: Ready to serve.
- 8
Gingerbread: For a fun Christmas treat, add some mini gingerbread men to the board.
Cook it from the original
This recipe comes from flawlessfood.co.uk. Their page has the author’s own photos, notes and tips — the best place to cook it from.
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