Valentine's Day Cheese Board
This Valentine's Day cheese board has everything you need for a romantic evening with your special someone. There's chocolate, fruit, and all sorts of assorted meats and cheeses. Pair it with a glass of bubbles and you're all set for a picture perfect evening!
Ingredients
- 3 cheeses with different flavors and textures
- 3 assorted meats like salami, chorizo, and soppressata
- Assorted crackers and bread
- Variety of fruits like strawberries, cherries, pomegranate arils etc.
- 1-3 spreads like jam and honey
- Small assortment of sweet treats, chocolate, truffles, chocolate covered fruit
- Acidic vegetables like cornichons and olives
Instructions
- Start with the cheeses, spreading them across the board. This is also a good time to add your jam jars and cheese knives.
- Add the meats, being sure to lay them close to the cheese.
- Add your crackers followed by the fruit. We like to place the longer crackers along the edges of the board.
- Add any sweet treats like chocolate, truffles, etc.
- Fill in any small spaces with vegetables and nuts. Enjoy!
Notes
Cheese tastes best at room temperature so assemble your board at least 1 hour before serving.
Below is a list of the exact items we used on our cheese board:
- Cheese: roquefort, chèvre, manchego ; Meat: Tuscan style salami, soppressata, chorizo
- Crackers: thin breadsticks, wafer crackers, olive oil and sel gris sourdough flatbread crackers ; Fruit: black cherries, strawberries, golden berries, black grapes
- Spreads: honey, strawberry jam ; Sweets: hazelnut chocolate bar, cocoa dusted cashews, guava paste
- Nuts: marcona almonds, valencia almonds with fine herbs ; Extras: cornichons
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