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Char-BOO-terie boards for the holiday party win! If you want to combine the fun of Halloween with everyone’s favorite snack, you’re going to fall in love with these fun mini Halloween charcuterie boards! Served in coffin-shaped containers, these individual snacks are loaded with tasty favorites such as deli meats and cheeses, fruit and nuts, crackers, and more, to combine sweet and savory with soft and crunchy. These ghoulish treats will delight all the ghouls and goblins and are perfect for entertaining Halloween lovers of all ages.
These mini Halloween charcuterie boards are super-cute. They’re not difficult to make and are sure to be the talk of your Halloween party.
You might also like to whip up some mummy hand pies, peanut butter spider cookies, or Harry Potter chocolate frogs.
Why You’ll Love It
A really special appetizer: There’s nothing else quite like these mini Halloween charcuterie snacks. They’re the perfect combination of tasty, cute and unusual.
Plenty of flavors: Savory and sweet ingredients all feature, along with fresh berries, crunchy nuts, and more, to offer a great contrast in every mouthful.
Ideal for Halloween: Creepy meets cute in this amazing Halloween charcuterie board recipe. If you’re planning a Halloween party or bring Halloween snacks to someone else’s, these are ideal.
Halloween Charcuterie Board Ingredients
A complete list of ingredients and amounts can be found in the recipe card below.
Soft cheese: To make the skulls. Use Boursin or your favorite kind of soft cheese.
Pretzel sticks: For the witches’ brooms.
Fresh berries: To add color and a sweet flavor.
Nuts: For crunch.
Crackers: To pair with the cheese and cured meats.
Candy corn: An iconic Halloween favorite.
Melting candy: For the ghost pretzels.
Candy eyeballs: To decorate the ghost pretzels (I used these!)
How to Make Halloween Charcuterie Cups
For more detailed instructions with weights and measurements, jump to the printable recipe card.
Make the cheese skulls: Press soft cheese into a greased skull mold and freeze until set.
Make the witches’ brooms: Pipe melted white candy and melted chocolate chips over pretzel stick and leave to set in the refrigerator.
Make the ghost pretzels: Add 2 dots of melted white candy to each chocolate-covered pretzel and stick a candy eye to each one. Refrigerate until set.
Make the pepperoni roses: Use the neck of a clean bottle to make pepperoni rose shapes. Add toothpicks to secure if needed.
Make the cheese pumpkins: Use a pumpkin cookie cutter to cut pumpkins out of the cheddar cheese.
Make the blueberry sticks: Thread blueberries on to toothpicks.
Assemble the charcuterie board snacks: Add a few crackers to the back of each coffin-shaped container and add a plastic skeleton in front. Add prosciutto along the rib cage and add prosciutto roses near the feet. Add nuts and candy corn, and some pumpkin-shaped cheddar pieces. Add the cheese skulls, ghost pretzels, chocolate pretzel broomsticks, and a few plastic spiders.
Substitutions and Variations
Gluten-free option: If you want a gluten-free version, use gluten-free crackers and pretzels, and check the other ingredients are free from gluten too.
Spice them up: Add some kind of spiced nuts to the Halloween charcuterie board if you want to add a kick of spice.
Different decorations: Feel free to mix and match. You can use gummy worms instead of plastic spiders or pumpkin-shaped containers instead of the mini coffins, for example.
Cheddar cheese slices: You can use cheese slices instead of a block of cheese for thinner shapes. Also, choose a different cheese for your spooky charcuterie board if you don’t want cheddar.
Serving Suggestions
More Spooky Bites: Serve your Halloween snack board with frightful bruschetta and skull potatoes.
Scary Sweet Treats: Candy corn peanut butter cookies and pot de creme desserts are perfect.
Ghoulish Sips: You can’t go wrong with a cursed immortal cocktail or Halloween ice cream floats.
How to Store Individual Charcuterie Snacks
Store: These are best enjoyed as soon as they’re made but you can keep leftovers for a day or so. Keep them refrigerated.
Freeze: These aren’t good for freezing.
Top Tips
Pepperoni roses: Use a 20-ounce bottle or empty olive oil glass bottle to make these – any bottle with a small neck you can use to make the rose shapes. You could also make them freehand, adding toothpicks to secure them.
Halloween cookie cutters: If you have a set of Halloween cookie cutters, you can use any of them to make shapes with the cheese – pumpkins, ghosts, anything spooky!
Finishing touches: Add extra nuts, berries or cheese pieces underneath the skeleton to prop him up for a perfect Halloween charcuterie board.
Not got a piping bag: Just use a Ziploc bag with the corner snipped off.
Halloween Snack Pack FAQs
It’s easiest to order them from Amazon. I used this skull mold and these Halloween cookie cutters (you also get a cat, a ghost and bat, along with the pumpkin!)
It’s understandable if you want to be enjoying the Halloween party instead of in the kitchen fiddling around with your Halloween themed charcuterie board. You can make some of the components ahead and then cover with plastic wrap and assemble later. Make the cheese shapes ahead, the witch brooms, prosciutto roses, and so on.
I used some from Dollar Tree, but these plastic coffins would work or other plastic coffin-shaped containers (but check the size). They can be repurposed to hold Halloween candy or other snacks. Alternately, these Halloween cups would work, too.
Halloween Char-Boo-Terie Coffin Snack Boards
Mini Halloween Charcuterie Boards
Equipment
- Glass or Plastic Bottle Empty
- Pumpkin Cookie Cutter 2-Inch
- Plastic Skeletons Small
Ingredients
- 4 Tablespoons soft cheese, eg Boursin or a cheese spread
- 4 pretzel sticks
- ¼ Cup melting candy, white
- 3 Tablespoons chocolate chips, dark
- 8 pretzels, white chocolate-covered
- 16 candy eyes
- 24 slices pepperoni
- 4 Ounces cheddar cheese, block
- 1 Cup blueberries
- 1 Cup blackberries
- 1 Cup pistachios, roasted, salted, in-shell
- 1 Cup candy corn
- 20 to 24 crackers
- 8 Slices prosciutto
Instructions
- Start by making the soft cheese skulls. Lightly spray a skeleton mold with spray oil. Carefully press the soft spreadable cheese into the skull cavities. Place the mold into the freezer for about 15 to 30 minutes until it hardens enough to be taken out as one piece.
- Make the witch's brooms next. Melt the white melting candies and scoop into a piping bag, repeat with the dark chocolate chips in a separate piping bag. Take one pretzel stick and lay it down on a piece of parchment paper. Drizzle the white melting chocolate vertically onto the bottom ½” of the pretzel to create the bottom of the broom. Then take the dark chocolate and drizzle on top of the white melting chocolate. Repeat for the remaining pretzels, place the brooms in the refrigerator to harden.
- While the white chocolate is still melted make the ghost pretzels. Add two drops of melted white chocolate just above the top two holes of each white chocolate pretzel. Place one candy eyeball on each of the droplets. Place in the refrigerator to harden completely.
- To make the pepperoni roses, you will need an empty bottle such as a 20 oz soda bottle or an empty glass olive oil bottle. the opening at the top of the bottle should be about the size of a quarter. Place one pepperoni onto the top of the bottle. Folding about half of the pepperoni down into the bottle and half down the outside of the bottle. Add two more pepperonis to cover the whole opening, they should overlap a little. Repeat this by adding a second layer of three pepperonis, staggering on top of the first three. When complete, turn the bottle upside down on to a clean workspace and gently twist the bottle up and off of the pepperoni rose. If needed, you can use toothpicks to secure the roses.
- Use the pumpkin cookie cutter to cut pumpkins out of the cheese, then slice to create enough pumpkins for 2 per coffin.
- To make the blueberry stick take a toothpick and stack as many blueberries on it as you can.
- To assemble the mini charcuterie boards take the empty coffins and place 5 or 6 crackers at the very top back of the coffin. Set your skeleton just in front of the crackers off to one side. Take one or two pieces of prosciutto and gently fold or crumple like a ribbon and press into the skeleton’s lap having it come up into or just outside of the rib cage.
- Set the pepperoni roses at the very bottom end of the coffin depending on the size of your coffin, you may need a couple extra slices of pepperoni on the bottom to lift that rose up a tiny bit for presentation.
- Next, you’ll want to add the blackberries next to the skeleton and the crackers. Then place the blueberry stick on the skeleton’s left side just in front of his shoulder.
- Add little piles of pistachios and candy corn as seen in photos. Then take your two pieces of pumpkin shaped cheese and place just in front of the pistachios.
- Add three of the soft cheese skulls just in front of the cheddar cheese. Place your white ghost pretzels among the crackers, and the broomstick right on top.
- Serve right away.
Notes
Halloween cookie cutters: If you have a set of Halloween cookie cutters, you can use any of them to make shapes with the cheese – pumpkins, ghosts, anything spooky!
Finishing touches: Add extra nuts, berries or cheese pieces underneath the skeleton to prop him up for a perfect Halloween charcuterie board.
Not got a piping bag: Just use a Ziploc bag with the corner snipped off.
Nutrition
A festive Halloween charcuterie board is the perfect snack for your next Halloween party! Your party guests will love this haunted Halloween charcuterie board and everyone will want to snap photos. There’s a wonderful contrast – sweet and savory flavors, soft and crunchy textures, and plenty of different colors, all served in a plastic coffin. This has to be one of the most fun Halloween recipes to make.
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Bella Bucchiotti is a Canadian-based syndicated food, travel, and lifestyle writer, photographer, and creator at xoxoBella. She founded xoxoBella in 2015, where she shares her love for food, dogs, sustainability, fitness, crafts, outdoor adventures, travel, and philanthropy to encourage others to run the extra mile, try new recipes, visit unfamiliar places, and stand for a cause. Bella creates stress-free and family-friendly recipes for weeknight dinners and festive feasts.
I am going to pick up some of these coffin boxes and give this a try. Too cute!