Description
Don’t throw away that cute box your Valentine’s Day chocolates came in! Use it to make an extra special Cheese and Charcuterie Heart Box to snack on with your love.
Ingredients
Charcuterie (Meat) Options: prosciutto, salami, mortadella
Cheese Options: mini Brie cheese rounds, white cheddar cheese cracker cuts, cheese cubes, aged white cheddar, crumbled blue cheese
Crackers: heart-shaped crackers, beet crackers, Fig and Olive crisps
Fresh Fruits: strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, apple slices, red grapes, green grapes, cherries with the stem, fresh figs
Dried Fruits: dried figs, dried apricots, dried apricots, cut into heart-shapes, dried cherries
Nuts: Marcona almonds, candied pecans, sesame cashews
Pickled Items: black olives, pimento stuffed green olives, cornichons
Spreads: honey with honeycomb, mustard with mustard seeds, strawberry jam, pepper jelly, fig preserves
Valentine’s-Inspired Additions: M&M’s Valentine’s Cupid’s Mix Chocolate Candies, Reese’s Valentine’s Pink Peanut Butter Hearts, Sour Pucker Lip Candies, Cherry Hearts, Cinnamon Lovers Hearts, Twizzler Nibs, Heart Shaped Gummies, Jelly Belly Hearts, Large Conversation Hearts, and Chocolates, of course!
Instructions
- Wash fresh fruits and set aside to dry.
- Drain olives and cornichons.
- Cut apricots into heart shapes using a mini-heart-shaped cookie cutter.
- Cut a heart out of the middle of the mini Brie bites with a mini heart-shaped cookie cutter (you can use both parts of the round in the box). Also, cut a heart shape out of the middle of the white cheddar cheese cracker cuts, if desired.
- Cut strawberries into heart-shapes.
- Roll slices of prosciutto and cut or arrange other meats into heart or rose shapes.
- Fill each compartment with cheeses, meats, accompaniments and other festive Valentine-inspired goodies.
- Serve and enjoy!
- After enjoying it, remove the plastic tray from the box and clean the tray with soap and water to save and use again next year!