Spooky season is here, which means it’s time to party. While there are so many dishes you can serve that fit the occasion, charcuterie has to be at the top of the list. I have 25 Halloween charcuterie board ideas to make your party unforgettable.
25 Halloween Charcuterie Board Ideas that Look Almost Too Good to Eat
1. Skeleton Guts
Here’s a fun way to put your charcuterie components on display. Start with a plastic skeleton at the center of your tray.
Then add your ingredients. Place rolled salami under the skeleton’s ribs to look like guts. You can add bowls of mozzarella pearls and olives to look like eyes. Rolled salami can wrap around the bowls to look like more guts.
Cubed cheese, crackers and fruit will round out your board’s flavors and appease all of your guests.
2. Skulls and Spiderwebs
Here’s an awesome way to display your charcuterie. Set up a table with skulls, mini skeletons and spiderweb bowl decorations. Place your ingredients between and lay them out in a way that creates eye-pleasing patterns.
3. Buttercream Board
Here’s a sweet twist on regular charcuterie. Fill a piping bag with vanilla buttercream. Draw a ghost shape with the buttercream. Fill another piping bag with chocolate buttercream and use it to draw on the eyes, nose and mouth.
Then, start adding cookies and brownie bites to your board. Everyone can dip the cookies into the buttercream.
4. RIP Charcuterie
Here’s one of the more elaborate Halloween charcuterie board ideas on this list. You’ll need some skeleton arms, a skull and some crossbones. Use letter cookie cutters to create the RIP in the top corner of the board.
You can fill your board with whatever you want, but some fun suggestions include sliced Gouda cheese, berries, grapes, chocolate-covered pretzels, candy corn, macarons and crackers.
5. Pumpkin Brie, Apples, Bread and Candied Fruit
This fall-inspired charcuterie board is so fun. Wrapping puff pastry around Brie cheese creates a pumpkin shape. You can use a cinnamon stick as the stem.
Add slices of apples, crusty bread, candied fruit and jam to the board.
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6. Pumpkin Dip
Here’s a simple twist on the classic charcuterie board. Start by removing the stem of the pumpkin and the guts. Fill the inside with your favorite dip
Serve with fresh, raw veggies like tomatoes, baby carrots, celery sticks, broccoli, pepper slices and whatever else you please.
7. S’mores Board
How cute is this s’mores board? You can fill it with everything people need to make s’mores and display it charcuterie-style. Lay out graham crackers and marshmallow-shaped ghosties.
Add some chocolate squares and candies, along with bamboo sticks and gel fuel cans to get the flame you need to melt the chocolate and marshmallows.
8. Boo-Schetta Board
How cute is this board? It’s a great alternative to regular charcuterie, and everyone will love the ghosties.
You’ll need slices of crusty bread and your tomato topping. Mix chopped tomatoes with fresh basil, garlic, salt, pepper and some olive oil.
Use a ghost cookie cutter to cut out slices of mozzarella that look like ghosts. Then use balsamic glaze to make the faces with a toothpick.
9. Stuffed Skeleton
I love Halloween charcuterie board ideas like this one. It’s so easy to put together, and the presentation will wow your guests.
Start with a poseable skeleton. Then, add folded salami and prosciutto, berries, cheese, grapes and other goodies around and between the bones of the skeleton.
10. Orange Foods Charcuterie
This pumpkin-themed charcuterie board features dark blue and orange foods, like baby carrots, orange candies, cheese puffs, nilla wafers, Goldfish, sesame sticks, blueberries and blackberries.
Arrange your foods on a round platter to form your pumpkin, and place your berries strategically to create the eyes, nose and mouth.
11. Charcuterie Eyeballs
These charcuterie eyeballs are perfect for Halloween, and they’re ridiculously easy to make. Take slices of prosciutto and twist and wrap them around to make little circular baskets. Add a mozzarella ball to the center of the “basket” and top with a green olive slice (make sure it has the pimento).
Display your eyeballs on a slate cheese board and watch them disappear.
12. Mummy Baked Brie
Here’s a fun charcuterie idea for your Halloween party. You’ll need a wheel of Brie cheese. Slice it in half and slather on a layer of raspberry or strawberry jam. Then, roll out some puff pastry and create little slices to make the mummy bandages. Bake and fill the rest of your tray with other charcuterie staples, like fruit, bread, meat and veggies.
13. Hocus Pocus Charcuterie Board
You start with a charcuterie board that you add a spider web to on the bottom. Add meat rollups, cheese, olives, crackers, soft cheese that you make faces for using peppers and olive slices,, strawberries, candy corns and a few others that the Pin’s author shows you how to make.
14. Pennywise Charcuterie Board
If you’re creative, you can make an amazing Pennywise board with all of your favorites. I recommend following the instructions for the face because that will be the hardest part of the entire presentation.
You can use a soft cheese for a circular face and then use strips of pepperoni or other meats for the hair.
Peppers can be used for the mouth, olive pieces for the eyes and then with a little magic and a food brush, you’ll make the eyebrows and red lines of Pennywise’s face. Place crackers around the face, meats and cheeses.
Olives and berries also add a nice pop of flavor to this board.
15. Mini Cauldron Cups
Halloween charcuterie board ideas like these are adorable and so thoughtful, aren’t they? For this one, you’ll buy mini cauldrons like these on Amazon. You’ll then fill them with skewers that pierce blackberries and cheese. Opt for Halloween skewers that are skeletons, pumpkins or ghosts.
Add another skewer that consists of cornichons, salami and olives.
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16. Spooky Pretzel Board
Another charcuterie board that is sure to give everyone a fright. You’ll find pretzels with edible googly eyes, pepper slices that are made to look like ghosts with spreadable cheese and black eyes.
Crackers and chips are added along with a cheese dip that’s designed to look like a skull.
Candy corns, olives, bread and other snack items are added to the board to make it complete.
17. Blood Berry Charcuterie Board
Blackberries, blueberries and pomegranate arils are three great, delicious items to add to any board. You’ll then find a piece of brie cheese with a spider on top of it, a bowl of olives, pepperoni slices, salami rolls, chips and various cheeses with fake eyes.
18. Mummy Cookies
Mummy cookies are so cute and easy to make. Add a cookie on top of your platter with googly eyes and pieces of cheese or melted white chocolate strips across it. Near the cookies, place raspberries and blueberries, grapes, sunflower seeds, orange slices and chocolate-covered pretzels.
Add in some props to complete the look, such as a skeleton hand or some fake spiders.
19. Popcorn, Skeletons, Meats and Candies
Add a hodgepodge of goodies to a platter and this is what you’re left with. You’ll find crackers, cheese, olives, salami, pepperoni, caramel popcorn, Cheez-Its, pretzels – anything you wish. Small skulls, skeleton hands and fake spiders added on top of some of the food will add a spooky touch to the board.
20. Spooky Meat and Cheese Platter
Meats and cheeses are always a delightful treat on Halloween. You’ll fill your platter with anything you like, such as rolled up meats, blueberries, blackberries, hard cheeses, olives, white and orange pumpkins and brie.
Add any other goodies that you like, such as chips and dip.
Place a fake skeleton hand on top of the berries, making it look like it’s grasping the berries.
21. Scary Movie
Do you know the movie called “Scary Movie?” You can purchase a collection of the many movies in this series and play them on Halloween, but it’s 100% up to you. What I do want you to do is to make a charcuterie board that resembles the ghost from Scream.
At the lower end of your board, layer your meats, such as hard pepperonis.
For the Scream face, layer blackberries at the top of the board and then use whipped cream or Cool Whip to create the face contour.
22. No Bake Board
Sometimes, you don’t want to put a lot of time into baking goodies, which makes these no-bake Halloween charcuterie board ideas even better. You’ll fill the tray with things, such as marshmallows, candy corns, chocolate-covered pretzels, M&Ms and gummy worms.
No need for baking with this one.
23. Boo Board
Who has the imagination to be this creative with their Halloween boards? You’ll dip strawberries in white chocolate and then make a face out of chocolate chips. Cover pretzels with white chocolate and don’t forget to add in some caramel popcorn.
In the mix of it all, place a fake spider or something else spooky that will make your guests jump the moment that they see it.
Add in candy corns, oranges, cheeses and make the word “Boo” out of crackers and place it in the middle of the board to complete the look.
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24. Ghoulish Charcuterie Board
Pretzels, salami and pepperoni roll-ups, breadsticks, bread cut out to look like ghosts, hard salami, brie cheese, blueberries, blackberries and a side of baked beans. Add anything you like to your board to make it spooky, even if that means using cocktail picks like these from Amazon.
25. Spooky Cheese Board
Start with your cheese, such as mozzarella, that you’ll use for the brookstick, brie, which you’ll cut to look like coffins and then a hard cheese to make into fangs. You’ll paint red on the fangs and place a pretzel through the mozzarella to add the “stick” for the broom.
