Make your snack board extra special this winter! This Snowman Snack Board features a snowman made out of cheese in the center surrounded by a scrumptious selection of festive colored snacks that everyone is sure to enjoy!
Let’s Build a Snowman (Out of Cheese!)
Do you want to build a snowman?! On a board? Out of creamy dreamy cheeses? And then surround it with a stunning selection of fruits, veggies, crackers, nuts, meats and more cheeses for an epic snack board that is sure to excite and entice your crowd this winter?!
Surely you’re saying yes, yes, yes, right now!! This Snowman Snack Board is everything. It’s super cute, easy to make and loaded with so much yumminess. Such a great spread to enjoy during the winter months at a party with your friends or on a snowy Sunday afternoon in with your family while watching Frosty the Snowman. Who doesn’t love a good themed snack?!
The great thing about this snack board is that you can surround the snowman with snacks that you have on hand that you’re loved ones would enjoy. For my Beautiful Boards cookbook, I surrounded the snowman with a scrumptious selection of white colored snacks for the snow with a blueberry sky.
Such a great spread to enjoy during the winter months at a party with your friends or on a snowy day in with the family.
This adorable Snowman Snack Board is about the only snowman this mama gets excited about building. 😉 So while the kids are out building a frosty snowman in the snow, I’ll stay cozy inside making our snack board extra special with a snowman made out of cheese rounds. Haha!
I’m obsessed with how this snowman made out of cheeses turned out. So stinkin’ cute! No pun intended. Lol! Seriously, no stinky cheeses on this board, but you could certainly add one if your cheese loving heart desires.
What Do I Need to Make a Snowman Snack Board?
- 4-inch round brie cheese
- 3-inch round Danish Camembert cheese
- 2-inch round Chèvre spreadable goat cheese
- Ritz snowflake crackers
- Beet Crackers from Trader Joe’s
- Pomegranate seeds
- Baby carrot
- Salami sticks
- raspberries
- red grapes
- salami slices
- pepperoni slices
- red apple slices
- dried cranberries
- sun-dried tomatoes
- pepper jelly
- green apple slices
- snap peas
- green olives
- green pear slices
- dried salted edamame
- green grapes
- cornichons/mini pickles
- Gouda cheese, cracker-cut slices
- coconut cashews
- macadamia nuts
- star-shaped cheese slices (I used Horizon pre-cut, but you could cut your own with a mini star cookie cutter)
- honey
How to Make a Snowman Snack Board
I used my 20-inch round Mango Wood Board from Sur La Table to make this board.
- Use 4-inch round brie, a 3-inch round Danish Camembert and a 2-inch round Chèvre spreadable goat cheese to create the snowman shape in the center of the board.
- For the snowman’s hat, take a Ritz snowflake cracker with 8 red beet crackers from Trader Joe’s stacked on top of it. For the eyes, mouth and buttons, I used pomegranate seeds and for the nose, I used a baby carrot.
- For the scarf around the snowman’s “neck”, twist two salami sticks together and lay it over the space where the top two cheeses connect, pressing the ends behind the snowman’s “neck”.
- Use two salami sticks for the arms and press them into the sides of the 3-inch round cheese in the center, letting them stick out and kind of up to look like arms.
- For the snacks around the snowman, I decided to use all red, green and light colored foods to keep it seasonal yet still scrumptious.
- Red foods: raspberries, red grapes, salami, pepperoni, red apple slices, dried cranberries, sun-dried tomatoes, pomegranate seeds, beet crackers and some pepper jelly in a little white serving bowl.
- Green foods: green apple slices, snap peas, green olives, green pear slices, dried salted edamame, green grapes and cornichons.
- Lighter colored foods: Ritz snowflake crackers, cracker cut Gouda cheese slices, coconut cashews, macadamia nuts, Horizon star shaped cheese slices and a little honey in a white serving bowl.
Of course, like all of my snack boards, feel free to use whatever snacks you have on hand or that you and your family enjoy most.
Fun & Festive Holiday Boards
Celebrate the magic of the season with Fun and Festive Holiday Boards that you and your loved ones are sure to enjoy! From sweet treats to healthy snacks, there’s a little something for everyone!
I hope you enjoy making and snacking off of this board as much as we did. Here’s to a cozy delicious winter! If you make this Snowman Snack Board, be sure to snap a picture and share it with me or tag me on Instagram @thebakermama so I can see. 😍 I love seeing how inspired and creative y’all get with the recipes I share. Enjoy!
xoxo,
Snowman Snack Board
- Prep Time: 30 mins
- Total Time: 30 mins
- Yield: 10+
- Category: Appetizer
Description
Make your snack board extra special this winter with this Snowman Snack Board that has a snowman made out of cheese in the center surrounded by a scrumptious selection of festive colored snacks that everyone is sure to enjoy!
Ingredients
- 4-inch round brie cheese
- 3-inch round Danish Camembert cheese
- 2-inch round Chèvre spreadable goat cheese
- Ritz snowflake crackers (1 for the snowman’s hat and several more spread out on the board)
- Beet Crackers from Trader Joe’s (8 for the snowman’s hat and the rest spread out on the board)
- pomegranate seeds (9 for the snowman’s eyes, mouth, buttons and then a bowlful on the board)
- 1 baby carrot (for snowman’s nose)
- 4 salami sticks (for the snowman’s scarf and arms)
- raspberries
- red grapes
- salami slices
- pepperoni slices
- red apple slices
- dried cranberries
- sun-dried tomatoes
- pepper jelly
- green apple slices
- snap peas
- green olives
- green pear slices
- dried salted edamame
- green grapes
- cornichons/mini pickles
- Gouda cheese, cracker-cut slices
- coconut cashews
- macadamia nuts
- star-shaped cheese slices (I used Horizon pre-cut, but you could cut your own with a mini star cookie cutter)
- honey
Instructions
- I used a 20-inch round wood board to create this snack board that will feed at least 10 people.
- I used a 4-inch round brie, a 3-inch round Danish Camembert and a 2-inch round Chèvre spreadable goat cheese to create the snowman shape in the center of the board.
- For the snowman’s hat, I used a Ritz snowflake cracker with 8 red beet crackers from Trader Joe’s stacked on top of it. I waited to decorate the rest of the snowman until after I had arranged all of the snacks around it.
- Arrange the red, green and light colored snacks around the snowman so the colors are spread aesthetically across the board,
- Red foods: raspberries, red grapes, salami, pepperoni, red apple slices, dried cranberries, sun-dried tomatoes, pomegranate seeds, beet crackers and some pepper jelly in a little white serving bowl.
- Green foods: green apple slices, snap peas, green olives, green pear slices, dried salted edamame, green grapes and cornichons.
- Light colored foods: Ritz snowflake crackers, cracker cut Gouda cheese slices, coconut cashews, macadamia nuts, Horizon star shaped cheese slices and some honey in a little white serving bowl.
- For the eyes, mouth and buttons on the snowman, I used pomegranate seeds and for the nose, I used a baby carrot.
- For the scarf around the snowman’s “neck”, I twisted two salami sticks together and laid it over the space where the top two round cheeses connect, pressing the ends behind the snowman’s “neck”. I also used two salami sticks for the arms and pressed them into the sides of the 3-inch round cheese in the center, letting them stick out and kind of up to look like arms.
- Of course, like all of my snack boards, feel free to use whatever snacks you have on hand or that you and your loved ones will enjoy most.
Hi where do you find the star shaped cheese?
Hi, Sherry! I used Horizon brand pre-cut (I know Kroger, Safeway, Walmart and others carry it), but you could cut your own with a mini star cookie cutter. Hope this helps! Happy Thanksgiving!
Super cute! Do you do anything special to the apples so that they don’t brown? Thanks!
Hi Cindy! I don’t do anything to the apples I put on my boards because I don’t want to ruin the natural sweetness of the apples that pairs so well with the other ingredients on the board. Here’s my best tips for apples on boards: https://thebakermama.com/tips/how-do-you-keep-apples-from-turning-brown/
Can you post the recipe for the snowman board with the blueberries and stars
Hi Tallie! All of the details and instructions are in my Beautiful Boards cookbook: https://thebakermama.com/beautiful-boards-cookbook/ Enjoy!
Love this board. Great Idea
Hey! I love your board recipes.
Would you be willing to do a Mexican Party board or a specific make-your-own taco board?
Aastha
Hi Aastha! Thanks so much! If you look at my Instagram feed and specifically the hashtag #boardsbythebakermama, you’ll see several build-your-own taco boards I’ve done in the past. And stay tuned for more… 🙂
Beautiful job Maegan! Well done and so creative! I was thinking they’d make lovely Christmas cards, including the Christmas tree board. Thank you for your effort and inspirational work. Catering parties in your future if you don’t already do this.????