Halloween Charcuterie Board

This spooky and festive halloween charcuterie board (aka halloween snack board) is filled with all of your favorite meats, cheeses, fruits and creepy treats. It's tje perfect way to entertain and feed guests at a halloween party.

Course Appetizers

Cuisine American

Keyword Halloween charcuterie, halloween cheese board, halloween snack board

Prep Time 1

Cook Time 30

Additional Time 4

Total Time 5 30

Calories 519kcal

Author Laura Bashar | Family Spice

Ingredients

8 oz round brie
1 sheet puff pastry
2 raisins
32 Hillshire Farm Lit'l Smokies®
1 8- ounce can refrigerated crescent dough rolls
1-2 eggs
1 tablespoon mustard
8 oz cream cheese
5 oz goat cheese
4 oz finely shredded cheddar cheese
2 garlic cloves
4 tablespoon finely chopped fresh herbs
1- inch pretzel rod or nugget
Hummus
4 oz prosciutto
4 figs
6 rambuttan
6 blueberries
2 passion fruits
6 Persian cucumbers
4 baby apples
1 lb black grapes
1 cup olives
Crackers
Tortilla chips
Gummy worms
Caramels

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Instructions

To make a pumpkin shaped cheese ball, whip the cream cheese and goat cheese until smooth. Mix in the garlic and fresh herbs. Place mixture in a sheet of plastic wrap and wrap it up. Roll it to form a ball.
Chop up the shredded cheddar. Unwrap the cheese ball and coat the outside with the chopped up cheddar.
Place the cheese ball on a new sheet of plastic wrap and wrap it up. Use a piece of string or twine and wrap it tightly around the ball's center, twist it, then wrap it in another direction. Continue doing this until you are happy with the shape of your pumpkin.
Refrigerate the cheese ball until you are ready to serve. Cut the strings and gently unwrap. For the stem, cut the tip of a pretzel rod or use a pretzel nugget. You can also use the dull side of a knife to help with the pumpkin indentations
To make your mummy baked brie, defrost frozen puff pastry at least 30 minutes before assembling and baking. Spread it out on a lightly floured work surface and gently roll it out several times with a rolling pin.
Cut the dough into thin strips then gently wrap your brie in alternate directions. Press the dough ends together underneath the brie, using water to help them connect. Leave a slit open for the eyes.
Place your brie wheel on a parchment lined baking sheet and brush the dough with an egg wash (1 egg mixed with 1 TBS water). Reserve remaining egg wash for the sausages.
In the slit for the eyes, use the tip of a sharp knife to cut out a tiny hole. Place a halved dried cherry or raisins in these little pits.
Bake at 400F until golden, about 20-25 minutes. Allow brie to cool for about 20-30 minutes before serving.
To make the mini mummy dogs, use a paper towel to dry the sausages. Cut the crescent dough into thin strips then begin wrapping them around the sausage. Be sure to leave a small space for the eyes to poke through.
Place the wrapped sausages on a baking sheet and brush with remaining egg wash.
Bake the sausages at 375F for 10-15 minutes until lightly browned. Using a toothpick, dip the tip into mustard (or ketchup) and dollop little eyes into the space you left open.
To assemble your halloween snack board, start with the big items first. Use bowls roughly the same size as place holders if you are waiting for something to bake or cool.
Start adding the crackers, chips, meats, fruits and vegetables directly on the board or in small bowls.
Fill the small holes remaining with more fruit, candies or halloween decorations.

Notes

You can customize your halloween snack board with anything you like.

Don't feel like making a cheese ball? But one at the store and shape it into a pumpkin. You can also use two packages of boursin cheese for the cheese ball. Just coat it with the chopped shredded cheddar.

For meats, you can also use hard dry salami, softer cotto salami, serrano ham, mortadella, sopressata and/or dried chorizo.

You can make or use store bought hummus. You can also use salsa, onion dip or guacamole. Decorate the top with olive slices for eyes.

Use regular potato chips, tortilla chips or go with colorful chips like green guacamole cipes or blue corn chips.

Choose any kind of cracks you like, mix shapes and colors.

For fruits, some fall favorites include grapes (I used purple moon drop grapes), figs, passion fruit (I cut them in half and used them), pears and apples. You add cuties and sharpie jack-o-lantern faces on them. I removed the top half of rambutan (cousin of the lychee) and topped with a blueberry to look like eyeballs. Other favorite fruits include strawberries, raspberries and blackberries.

For vegetables, you can also use baby carrots, broccoli florets, grape tomatoes, and cauliflower florets.

Fill the gaps with dried fruits and nuts like raisins, dried cranberries, cashews, pistachios and almonds.

I made caramel apples abd put them on the board. They looked great but did soften a bit. If you want to add caramel apples, I suggest wrapping them individually in cellophane first. Or you can slice apples, soak in water with lemon juice to make sure they don't brown, then serve with caramel dip that you find at the store.

Instead of or in addition to olives you can also include olive tapenade, chopped pickles, artichoke hearts, peperoncinos, pickled onions and jalapeños.

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