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.