Today in America, a chocolate dessert charcuterie board is taken as a glorified idea with added sugar into a dessert condition and tired of cold cuts? It would help if you went with chocolate ganache and buttery shortbread present all over the dessert board. Pretzels, chocolate ganache, and dip shortbreads served with many candies and finger food desserts artfully arranged onto a tray.
The chocolate dessert board by Googlushee is meant to be eaten, but of course, it also becomes a centrepiece for your gatherings and party. Let’s shine with creativity. Everyone gets admires of it at a glance. Also, they are easy to put together.
Tips For Making Dessert Charcuterie Board
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Suppose you are a beginner and don’t know how to make a dessert charcuterie board. It’s ok. We are sharing some tips below that will assist you :
- Begin with items more significant in size. Anchor items are used in such cases. If you are looking for a different theme and dip is not necessary for your charcuterie board, then you can go with Christmas decorations for Christmas eve or mini pumpkins for Halloween. However, big bowls and dips provide an anchor for dessert items
- They are additionally dipping the dippers. Arrange all items like gingerbread men, shortbread fingers, Santa, little snowman, and other shortbread items. Things like nougat, marshmallows, pretzels are good for dunking dips.
- You can add more treats like almonds covered with chocolate, English toffee, and other chocolate bars that people prefer to eat instead of dippings.
- In the end, add small candies and treats or nuts as toppings. Fill the gaps of the dessert charcuterie board with such stuff. Colorful candy wrapped looks pretty good because it adds texture to the dessert board. To give your bowl height, you can add nuts like pistachios or make a pile of pecans on board.
- Bring color by adding rosemary, crushed candies, and cranberries as a garnish over the board.
Dips For Dessert Charcuterie Board
If you are a person that likes to dunk shortbread, you can now easily choose between trio dips of your taste to dip it in. Here you can make it all easy and can put it together:
Peppermint Whip. It is most likable. You can make it with crushed peppermint and some chilled whip cream. In case of lack of whip cream, you can use heavy cream, beat it until it gets smooth and stiff. Gingerbread and peppermint are the best combos.
Chocolate Ganache. Heat the cream in the microwave and let it make bubbles. For smoothness, add a little butter and some stirred chocolate chips. You can add a mixture of dark chocolate chips or semisweet. It’s classic and effortless.
Marshmallow Dip. It’s the best recipe used for dipping fruits into. Take one jar of marshmallow creme or marshmallows and melt them. Take cream cheese and best marshmallows and creme together. You can add vanilla extract and powdered sugar too for flavor.
Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Servings: 8 persons
Ingredients:
- Shortbread: 2 packages gingerbread men.
- Shortbread mini: 2 packages festive stars
- Shortbread fingers: 2 boxes of mini
- Shortbread: 1 walker fingers
- Marshmallows: 6 Oz
- Pretzel: 4 Oz and some covered with white chocolate
- English toffee: 4 Oz
- Almond candy nougat: 6 Oz
- Meringues: 4 Oz
- Chocolate covered almonds: 6 Oz
- Pecans: 4 Oz
- Pistachios: 3 Oz
- Nonpareil chocolate
- Candy-coated chocolates: 8 Oz hard shell or mint ones
- Cranberries: 1/2 cup
- Rosemary or mint : 3 Oz
- Crushed candy canes: 5 Oz
For the chocolate ganache:
- Heavy cream: 1/3 cup
- Chocolate chips:1/3 cup semisweet
- Dark chocolate chips: 1/3 dark
- Butter: 2 tablespoon
For the Peppermint Whip:
- Cool whipping creme: 8 Oz
- Crushed candy canes: 2/4 cup
For Marshmallow Dip:
- Creme cheese: 8 Oz
- Marshmallow: 8 Oz
- Powdered sugar: 1/2 cup
- Vanilla: 1 teaspoon
Preparation:
Step 1: Preparing dips:
Make chocolate ganache by using cup creme melted with some sweet and dark chocolate chips according to measures given in ingredients before. After melting the butter, add butter and stir it continuously. Whisk until it gets thicker and comes to room temperature.
For peppermint dip, beat the chilled whip cream and make a smooth, creamy texture. Now add crushed candy canes and make eight folds in them with a spatula. Refrigerate it for better flavor.
For marshmallow dip, beat creme cheese to make a smooth texture. Add marshmallows best again make a smooth paste. At last, add vanilla and powdered sugar.
Step 2: Assembling:
Assemble the dessert charcuterie board by adding the bowls in it for dips. Remember to add the dips in bowls later to prevent nuts from drops during ganaches.
Add texture and height to the bowls by adding parchment paper. Now add shortbread mini, gingerbread men, 3D snowman shortbread fingers in the tray, or you can add any other large bakery goods to dunk in dips.
Step 3: settlements:
Settle down the pretzels, meringues, chocolate-covered pretzels, almond nougat, English toffee, and other stuff like crispy treats, Graham crackers, or any fruit.
Fill the gaps with small items like nonpareil chocolates, candy, pecans, and pistachios, or any other kind of nuts, candies, etc
Step 4: Garnishing:
Garnish the dessert charcuterie board with rosemary or mint leaves, crushed candy canes, and fresh cranberries.
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