There’s more to Christmas food than just cookies and cocoa!
These Christmas Charcuterie Board Ideas feature stunning spreads that wow your guests before they even take a bite. They’re festive, fun, and totally customizable for serving holiday cheer on a platter.
From candy cane caprese to Santa’s beard, these boards are almost too good to eat.
Note: These board ideas range from fancy, to kid-friendly, to sweet. So, there’s something for everyone in this collection!
Christmas Charcuterie Boards That’ll Steal The Show
For any good charcuterie board, you’ll want a variety of colors, textures, and even heights.
Start with the basics:
- Brie (and/or another cheese you love)
- salami
- crackers
- grapes
- nuts
- olives
Now, use the boards below as inspiration to make your custom board. These Christmas Charcuterie board ideas will make you the life of the party!
1. Fancy Brie Cutout Tree Board
This board from the Cure Chatt is elegant enough for any adult Christmas party, but still brings the festive fun. Folding the salami around the Brie is a creative way to make it look like a wreath. And they cut a Christmas treat out of the Brie and filled it with colorful pomegranate.
Many of these boards use rosemary sprigs as a garnish because they look like Christmas tree branches.
2. Elegant Holiday Board
This Holiday charcuterie board by The Kitchen Girl is beautiful. She sprinkles in pomegranate to give the board color and uses sugared cranberries for festive flair.
3. Ho Ho Ho Santa Board
Petal and Platter prove that you can even do a Santa for your Christmas charcuterie board! All you need are:
- strawberries (hat)
- Brie (face, top part of hat, and mustache)
- mozzarella balls (beard)
- black olives (eyes)
- red cherry (nose)
4. Bright and Cheerful Christmas Board
From My Mini Chefs, this red and green combination really pops. And it’s simple too when you add unique items like pickles, tomatoes, and kiwi.
White chocolate chips make a great “no color” filler for this one!
5. Simple Wreath Charcuterie Board
This board from Play Party Plan is beautiful and surprisingly easy to do.
It’s all about the arrangement when doing a holiday wreath. You don’t want to put anything too similar next to each other. That’s why she has square yellow cheese next to oval purple grapes.
The mozzarella balls really stand out for color in this wreath, and that’s probably why she put them directly across from each other.
6. Ornament Christmas Charcuterie Board
She Shared made a lovely ornament-style board. And all you need to start is a big circular plate or platter. Instead of arranging her food in sections, she chose to create zig-zag lines similar to those found on an ornament. (Just like with the wreath, it’s important to put different colors and textures next to each other)
The square bowl of green olives and the rosemary semi-circle at the top is perfect for the top of an ornament.
7. Fancy Christmas Tree Board
Baker By Nature shows us how simple a tree board can be. Lay out your foods in the shape of a tree, and add rosemary on the outside to really give that pine tree look. Then, top it off with a Brie star (Cut out a star in your Brie wheel and fill with preserves).
8. Red and Green Delight Board
The Delicious Life board is so wonderfully colorful! And what’s awesome is that they achieve this by using natural foods instead of lots of food coloring.
They use lights around the board to give it an even more festive feel. If you have a small set of extra lights, you could do this, too!
9. Pesto Holiday Board
Katheats does another great green and red board. In this case, she uses pesto and green olives to make the green stand out.
10. Pinwheel Christmas Charcuterie Board
Kelley Nan shares a delicious-looking board. But what holds my attention is the festive holiday pinwheels! For these, you’ll need:
- Flour Tortillas
- Cream Cheese Spread
- Greek Yogurt (or sour cream)
- Pkg Hidden Valley Ranch dip mix
- Red Bell Pepper
- Green Bell Pepper
- Cucumber, peeled
- Broccoli Florets
- Cauliflower Florets
11. Festive Holiday Tree Board
From Peel With Zeal, this Christmas tree is like #7 on this list. But they use pecans as the tree base and a cut-out cheese star for the top. Your charcuterie board can be done with many different options! (So, look and see what you have at home first)
Easy Christmas Charcuterie Board Ideas
Next, this collection features the easiest board ideas for kids. Not only will they love this food, but they’re simple enough to have them help make the fun Christmas food too. What a win!
12. Christmas Kids Tree Snack Board
First, this board from Baker Mama features simple but adorable items kids will love. The broccoli gives it a fluffy tree look. Plus, Babybel cheese rounds are an easy way to make snowmen, reindeer, and little Santas.
13. Caprese Candy Cane Board
This Caprese candy cane board is simple enough for kids, but elegant enough for any Christmas party with adults too. All you need is:
- tomato
- mozzarella
- olive oil
- balsamic vinegar
- toasted baguette
- and basil leaves
14. Easiest Xmas Tree Charcuterie Board
From Heartbeet Kitchen, this tree is probably the easiest on the list to put together when time is tight.
15. Holiday Wreath Skewers
This charcuterie wreath from Crown Charcuterie uses skewers to make it unique (and easy!). Mix in rosemary sprigs and you have a beautiful wreath with less effort.
16. Kids Holly Jolly Snack Board
From Baker Mama, who says dips can’t be the star of the show? She also uses some of my favorite Christmas snacks – ants on a log reindeer and Grinch kabobs. They’re easy and healthy!
17. Kids Christmas Cheer Board
Made in a Pinch features colorful chips and guacamole, plus a few fun items you can find (like Hostess trees) when you have less time and energy.
Sweet Christmas Charcuterie Board Ideas
Next, these Christmas boards are delicious dessert trays you’ll love for any party!
18. Hot Chocolate Tray
A New Dawnn says “hot chocolate bar anyone?” Not only does she include what you need for the basics, but she has adorable chocolate spoons, peppermints, cinnamon sticks, and lots of fun marshmallow and chocolate options.
19. Gorgeous Christmas Dessert Board
The Recipe Critic mixes bright strawberries and pomegranate with delightful desserts for a board that will get devoured quickly.
20. Green and Red Dessert Charcuterie Board
Aint to Proud to Meg highlights the purple and green fun! She also does something a little different by using chocolates in green wrapper. (You can keep your candy IN the wrapper for the same colorful effect!)
It’s a beautiful treat board using items you can find in a store.
21. Christmas Cookie Treats Board
This dessert board from Modern Glam looks like something Santa would try to steal from you. If you do a cookie exchange every year, you can absolutely use your cookies to make a board like this. She adds color with greenery, red fruits, and peppermint merengues.
22. Simple Holiday Dessert Board
Finally, from Glitter Inc, this Christmas charcuterie board is simple. She sprinkles holiday M&Ms into caramel popcorn for a jolly treat that’s full of texture and color.
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