Snacks & Party Food
Haunted Charcuterie Board
The grown-ups' centerpiece: dark grapes, blue cheese, salami roses, black crackers and figs, laid out by candlelight.
- Prep time
- 25 min
- Serves
- 10
- Difficulty
- Easy
The grown-ups' centrepiece, and the one thing on the table that requires no cooking at all. Keep the palette to black, deep purple and cream and it reads as Halloween without a single plastic spider.
Ingredients
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Instructions
- Set the cheeses down first, spaced apart across the board — they anchor everything else.
- Roll salami slices into roses by folding each over the rim of a small glass, then tipping them out in clusters.
- Drape the prosciutto in loose ribbons rather than flat slices.
- Fill the gaps with black grapes, figs, and blackberries so no bare wood shows.
- Tuck crackers along one edge, set out small bowls of nuts and jam, and let the cheese come to room temperature 30 minutes before serving.
Why it works & making it ahead
Place the cheeses first and build around them — they anchor the whole board. Salami roses take seconds: fold each slice over the rim of a small glass, pack it, then tip it out. Let the cheese sit out thirty minutes before serving, and fill every gap so no bare wood shows.
Keep the palette dark — black, deep purple, cream. That alone makes it read as Halloween.
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