Festive and Easy Patriotic Charcuterie Board

Celebrate summer and America with this Festive and Easy Patriotic Charcuterie Board. Simple to make and customizable to your needs, this red, white, and blue charcuterie board is sure to wow your guests of all ages.

If you’re looking for an easy charcuterie board to bring to your 4th of July, Memorial Day, Labor Day, and all your summer gatherings, this a great way to enjoy simple appetizers and treats. This festive and easy patriotic charcuterie board has all the red, white, and blue colors with your favorite foods. Best of all, it’s totally customizable for all budgets and tastes.

As long as I can remember we’ve been making meat and cheese boards with a little something sweet on them, too. We had them primarily for Christmas Eve or New Year’s Eve but I don’t recall my parents calling them “Charcuterie Boards”. Instead, they were dubbed, “snack trays”. It was a fun way to serve what would be our dinner. Who doesn’t like to graze on finger food?!

Whatever you call them, they are easy to make, tasty, and fun. They can feed a crowd or just two. This brunch board is great for weekends, Mother’s Day, brunches, and more. If you’re needing a fresh idea for Valentine’s Day or date night, these boards are the way to go. Summer fruits are perfect for a summer charcuterie board. Oftentimes, I’ll make this one for lunch or light dinner. Get creative with the charcuterie boards!

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

• It’s fun, festive, and everyone will love it.
• It will feed a crowd and it’s perfect for parties.
• There is no right or wrong way to do it.
• It has a variety of flavors, textures, and shapes.
• Customizable for your tastes.
• You can create kid-friendly charcuterie boards

Festive and Easy Patriotic Charcuterie Board

Show your love for America by using your favorite patriotic theme foods for this red, white, and blue charcuterie board. This festive and easy charcuterie board has something for everyone, even the kids.

Holiday-themed charcuterie boards are so fun to make and it couldn’t be easier put together. Be as festive as you’d like. There is no end to creativity when putting together a snack board. Really, no wrong or right way to assemble the board or what you’re putting on there.

This particular board will be the hit of your Memorial Day and 4th of July celebrations. From the cheese stars to the colorful fruits to the sweet candy lollipops, this snack board will wow everyone.

How to Put a Charcuterie Board Together

The first step is to choose your board. You don’t need a fancy expensive one. Using a large platter or wooden board is a great option, even a baking sheet! I used a piece of parchment paper to cover my board to help reduce staining. The board I used here is a 14-inch round one but use what you have. The great thing about charcuterie boards is that you can customize them to the size and shape of your board, or make multiple boards, even! Large crowds may require a very large board or even several smaller ones.

Fresh fruits are great space fillers for charcuterie boards and using small containers for some gives the boards a bit more depth with the different elements.

I used some of the colorfully wrapped candy coins to fill in any spaces I saw. The arrangement of patriotic charcuterie board ideas given is merely a suggestion, the point is to have a variety of items and containers.

Equipment

• 14-inch round platter or charcuterie board
• small bowls or containers
• small star cookie cutter
• knife
• parchment paper, optional

Ingredients

• Pepper Jack cheese block
• Salami
• Pepperoni
• Raspberries
• Blackberries
• Yogurt covered pretzels
• Nut-Thins Crackers or your favorite round cracker
• Red white and blue candy coins
• Red, white and blue gumballs
• Red, white and blue lollipops

How to Create This Patriotic Charcuterie Board

Step 1

Prepare your charcuterie board by cutting a piece of parchment paper to fit. This helps keep the board clean and from staining.

Step 2

Cut the cheese into pieces that are just larger than the star cookie cutter. Then slice the cheese into 4 slices. Use the cookie cutter to cut stars out of the cheese.

Step 3

Add the blackberries, raspberries, and gumballs to small white bowls. Arrange the bowls onto the board first.

Step 4

Add the lollipops to the board.

Step 5

Roll the salami slices into cone shapes.

Step 6

Stack the salami cones next to the fruit containers to help keep them rolled.

Step 7

Next, arrange the crackers and pepperoni slices on the board, and keep alternating the colors.

Step 8

Add in the cheese stars and yogurt-covered pretzels.

Step 9

Add the candy coins next, filling in any empty spaces. Serve!

Tips, Tricks, and FAQs

• Keep to your theme of red, white, and blue as much as possible.
• Use other red fruits like watermelon, strawberries, and slices of red apples.
• Substitute the blackberries for blueberries.
• Instead of Pepper Jack cheese, try Swiss or white cheddar cheese.
• Replace the gumballs with red, white, and blue M&M candy.
• The lollipops can be exchanged for any patriotic candy you like.
• Add some cherry or grape tomatoes, pomegranate seeds, or red bell pepper slices
• White Chocolate covered popcorn would look great on this board and tastes great.
• Choose from a variety of cheese and deli meats that complement your theme.

Other red, white, and blue desserts to enjoy

• Easy Red, White, and Blue Giant Cookie Cake
• Easy No Bake Cherry Cheesecake in a Jar (add a layer of blueberry pie filling with the strawberry)
• 20 Red, White, and Blue Sweet Treats
• Patriotic Cookie Cups

Summer months can mean no one wants to cook, a charcuterie platter has simple ingredients and requires no cooking. Great idea to make for dinner!

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