DESSERT CHARCUTERIE BOARD FOR TWO
I have to be honest with you. I am currently OBSESSED with charcuterie boards. There are so many options, combination and ways to make them. I am in love! Valentine’s day is coming up and I wanted to make something special. This dessert charcuterie board is beautiful and perfect for a nice date night at home. OOOOOR, you can use this ingredients, make it bigger and its perfect for a galentine’s night!
The thing I LOVE about these boards is that they come together pretty quickly and they are so much fun to eat! Using your hands, a few knives and forks and you are set! A great reason to gather around a beautiful plate that looks like art! Also, you barely cook for these boards most of the time. Go to a grocery store or a speciality store, find what you want to eat and go home and have some fun! You can find everything you need for this dessert board in a grocery store.
With Valentine’s Day coming up, this dessert board is ideal! A mixture of cookies, fresh fruit, and other ingredients with a couple of dips. Make a chocolate ganache dip and some dulce de leche for this board. I think specially for this year, cooking and making something special at home is perfect. You can make this dessert board the day before or that morning and it will stay perfect!
THE PERFECT DESSERT BOARD:
Actually, this would be like a chocolate fondue board without the fondue set and having to worry about the heat. For this dessert board you need, a wooden board or a big dish, some small bowls for the dips and nothing else. Easy right?
The idea is to have a bit of everything in there to really enjoy the mixture of flavors. A few fresh fruits, a few chocolate cookies and some vanilla or citric flavor like orange or lemon.
I am the biggest oreo cookie fan, ever since I was a kid. A glass of milk and a few oreos are the best snack. Cookies like this are super versatile and combine with almost everything. Try them with chocolate or dulce de leche.
For the citric part of the board, look for some type of muffin or cake with a lemon or orange flavor. It has to be stiff enough to cut in tiny squares and dip in chocolate. I personally love the combination of orange with chocolate. If you want to, you can make a cake at home and use that. Still, th idea for this dessert board is to make it quick and simple.
Lastly, the fruits. I chose the classic fondue fruits, banana and strawberries. Another option is candied oranges or fresh grapes for example. Like I walls say, it depends on your preference and what you can find.
PUTTING THIS DESSER BOARD TOGETHER:
To start making this gorgeous dessert board I like placing a bit of parchment paper over the board. Just in the center, it doesn’t have to reach the edges.
The next step is adding the small bowls for the dips. I don’t add the dips yet because most of the time they are different colors and I want to wait until the whole board is ready to see which color go where. In this case, you will use two types of bowl in two different sizes. The bigger one for the chocolate and the smaller one for the dulce de leche.
Around these bowls, add all of the ingredients or dippers. Everything you want to eat with these sauces. Start with the bigger elements and slowly go filling the empty spaces with the smaller ones.
Finally, most of the time you and up with tiny empty spaces. For regular charcuterie boards, I fill these spaces with nuts or dried fruits. In this case, we fill those spaces with M&Ms. If you find the Valentine’s day edition that brings red, white and pink M&Ms better! What I normally do for this kind of things is just separate the colors I want and eat the rest.
EQUIPMENT:
The board: The one you like the most. You can also use a dish or tray that you like. Anything you have really. This is also a great thing about this kind of charcuterie or dessert boards. You can make it in anything. I used a xx cm long and xx cm wide wood board.
Parchment paper: This is not absolutely necessary but I like using it.
Bowl: Smal bowls for the chocolate and dulce de leche.
Knife or spoon: To help pouring the sauces into the bowls. And for serving in case you don’t want to actually dip the cookies or cake in the sauces. Also, knives to cut up the ingredients in the boards.
Forks: For eating!!
Saucepan: The only thing in this dessert board that you will actually cook is the chocolate sauce. This, comes together in a couple of minutes in a saucepan over low heat and with TWO ingredients.
DO YOU LIKE CHARCUTERIE BOARDS? TRY THESE AS WELL!
DESSERT CHARCUTERIE BOARD FOR TWO
Ingredients
FRUITS
- 1 Banana
- 6 Big strawberries
COOKIES
- 1 Mini oreo pack
- 7 Vanilla cookies
- 6 Orange wafer cookies
- 5 Chocolate chip cookies
OTHER SWEETS
- Mini marshmallows
- Valentine's day M&Ms
SALTY
- Pretzel sticks or regular pretzels
DIPS
- 200 gr Classic dulce de leche
- 150 gr semisweet chocolate
- 170 gr Heavy whipping cream
Instructions
- Make the chocolate ganache by heating up the heavy cream in a sauce pan until bubbles start to form on the sides.
- Lower the heat and add the chocolate. Stir until completely melted.
- Start by placing the bowls, one on each side.
- Add chocolate chip cookies to the side of the bigger bowl.
- Add vanilla cookies in a straight line to the side of the smaller bowl.
- Add the orange wafer cookies in the middle of the two bowls.
- Add the pretzels to the side of the orange cookies.
- Add the mini oreos to the side of the smaller bowl. Stack them in a messy way.
- Add marshmellows to the bottom corner and a few extras to the top corner as well.
- Add strawberries next to the chocolate chip cookies.
- Add banana slices right beside the oreos and more next to the preztels.
- Full the remaining small spaces with M&MS.
- Add dulce de leche to the smaller bowl and the chocolate ganache to the bigger one.
