Make this fun charcuterie board for Valentine’s Day! It’s packed with candy, berries, cookies, chocolate, pretzels, and marshmallows. Basically all things sweet for your sweetheart! It’s fun, kid-friendly, and takes just 15 minutes to make!
The holiday of love is around the corner, and you need to make this cute charcuterie board to celebrate! Whether you’re celebrating with your partner or with your family, this candy board will impress both kids and adults!
I love celebrating holidays with charcuterie boards. This Christmas Wreath Charcuterie Board is a personal favorite that I make every year! When I have guests coming over, I quickly put together a Classic Charcuterie Board that I fill with cheeses, meats, fruit, and nuts. But when it’s a holiday, a themed cheese board is definitely on the menu!
Looking for a healthy dessert idea that you can turn into a board? Try my Chocolate Hummus, it’s delicious!
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Fun – Putting together a dessert charcuterie board is so much fun, and eating it is even more fun!
- Kid Friendly – Your kids are going to love this! My kids wait for Valentine’s Day every year just for the board. It’s a family tradition.
- Versatile – I give you ideas on how to choose what will go on your board, but the possibilities are endless! Get your favorite candies, chocolate, cookies, and even meats and cheeses, just make sure that you make it pretty! I’ve included lots of ideas below.
What You’ll Need:
- Board: If you have a board that’s specific for cheese boards, use it! Rimmed wooden boards are most popular for charcuterie boards, but you can also use a kitchen slate, a large platter, or just like I did use a sheet pan! If you need to buy a board, this heart shaped board is seriously cute!
- Ramekins: You will need either small ramekins or small bowls for things like small candies, small berries, or spreads.
- Fruit: Fresh strawberries is a classic and a romantic option for Valentine’s Day. If the time allows, make these Chocolate Covered Strawberries. They’re easy to make and look impressive! Add other berries such as raspberries, or blueberries.
- Cookies: This is a dessert board, and who can resist cookies! I love adding mini chocolate chip cookies, linzer cookies, peanut butter blossoms, strawberry cookies, chocolate crinkle cookies, meringue cookies, and/or heart shaped macarons. These can be either homemade, or store-bought. Whatever you prefer!
- Candy: Any heart shaped or pink and red candy would be pretty here! I like to use Valentine’s M&M’s, Gobstopper heartbreakers, Conversation hearts, wrapped chocolate hearts, chocolate covered pretzels, Reese’s hearts, Hershey’s hearts, chocolate truffles, or Cinnamon hearts.
- Other Things: To this specific board that you see in my pictures, I also added marshmallows (white and pink), pink wafers, and Hershey’s milk chocolate bars.
How To Make Valentine’s day charcuterie board
- Starting assembling your board by filling the ramekins with M&M’s, small candies, and if you’re adding any dessert dips. Place that on the board.
- Add the rest of the ingredient: fruit, cookies, candies, marshmallows, etc
- Fill in the gaps by adding M&M’s and some small candies where you see gaps to make the board look pretty.
Tip!
Charcuterie is pronounced “shar-koo-ter-ee”.
What else can I add?
You can split the charcuterie board in half and do half savory and half sweet. Here are a few more ideas of what else can you add:
- Cheeses: If you decide to add cheeses, I recommend adding one creamy and spreadable cheese such as herb Boursin, a soft cheese like brie, and a hard cheese like Manchego or diced white cheddar. If you have cheese serving knives, don’t forget to add them. If not, just use a butter knife to spread the cheese.
- Meats: Go for salami, and proscuitto. Want to make a salami rose? I have a tutorial in this Charcuterie board recipe!
- Crackers: You can either slice a baguette into toasts, brush with olive oil and bake. Or go for water crackers, artisan crackers, or something buttery like Ritz crackers.
- Dessert Dips: A dessert would also be delicious here! Try my Cannoli Dip, or this Funfetti Cake Batter Dip. A sweet chocolate chip cheese ball would fit right in as well.
- Other Snacks: Love popcorn? Add some! Also try chex mix, dry fruit, nuts, and a small jar of grape jelly or honey.
These sweet heart-shaped macarons will look amazing on your Valentine dessert board!
Top Tips
- Use the right size board! This is super important because you want your board to look pretty. I like to lay out the packaged ingredients on the board before unwrapping and assembling just to check which board shall I go with.
- Colors & textures: When you’re building your dessert board, the main thing that you need to keep in mind is how to switch up the colors and textures. Make the board look fun – don’t put all the chocolates on one side, mix with fruit, candies, and marshmallows!
- Make ahead: You can totally make this 1-2 days ahead, just make sure not to add the fresh fruit (or any fresh ingredients). Wrap it with plastic wrap, and keep it at room temperature until you’re ready to serve.
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Valentine’s Day Charcuterie Board
Ingredients
- 10 oz (280g) M&M's Valentine's Cupid's Mix Milk Chocolate Candies
- 12 oz (340g) Gobstopper Valentine's Heartbreakers
- 8 oz (225g) fresh strawberries
- 8 oz (225g) fresh raspberries
- 4 oz (110g) Marshmallows
- 8 oz (225g) Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies USA: Chips Ahoy! or Annie's brand. UK: Maryland brand.
- 6 oz (170g) Strawberry Wafers
- 8.5 oz (240g) Hershey's Dipped Pretzels
- 3.6 oz bar Hershey's Milk Chocolate Candy Bars
Instructions
- Starting assembling your board by filling the ramekins with M&M’s, small candies, and if you’re adding any dessert dips. Place that on the board.
- Add the rest of the ingredient: fruit, cookies, candies, marshmallows, etc
- Fill in the gaps by adding M&M’s and some small candies where you see gaps to make the board look pretty.
Notes:
- Use the right size board! This is super important because you want your board to look pretty. I like to lay out the packaged ingredients on the board before unwrapping and assembling just to check which board shall I go with.
- Colors & textures: When you’re building your dessert board, the main thing that you need to keep in mind is how to switch up the colors and textures. Make the board look fun – don’t put all the chocolates on one side, mix with fruit, candies, and marshmallows!
- Make ahead: You can totally make this 1-2 days ahead, just make sure not to add the fresh fruit (or any fresh ingredients). Wrap it with plastic wrap, and keep it at room temperature until you’re ready to serve.
Nutrition Information
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