Easter Candy Charcuterie Board
Create an Easter Candy Charcuterie Board for dessert with your favorite Easter candy. This candy dessert board is easy to make and festive to display and eat!
Servings: 10 - 12 servings
Equipment
- tray (I used one that measured 16" x 20")
- 3 bowls
Ingredients
- 8 Peeps bunnies (pink)
- 10 Peeps chicks (yellow)
- ½ cup Mini Robin Eggs
- 10 ounce bag Easter M&M's
- 7 ounce bag Brach's Speckled Jelly Bird eggs (jelly beans)
- 10.1 ounce bag Easter Hershey Kisses
- 5 ounce bag Flipz White Fudge Pretzels (white chocolate covered pretzels)
- 1½ cups Annie's Mini Bunny Graham Crackers
- 2 cups Fruity Flavored Miniature Marshmallows
- 1 cup Easter Marshmallows
- 10 vanilla cookie wafers
- 8 strawberry cookie wafers
- 5 chocolate covered strawberries
- 3 Easter egg cookies
- 1 chocolate bunny
- 5 mini carrot decorations (non-edible and can be found at the Dollar Tree)
Instructions
- If you are making chocolate-covered strawberries, melt a half cup of chocolate chips in the microwave until smooth and melted (don’t over melt or they will seize up). Dip the strawberries in and place on parchment paper to set. Once set, melt 1/4 cup pink candy wafers according to the package directions and then using a piping bag, add a few squiggly lines onto the strawberries. Allow to set completely before adding to the charcuterie board.
- Arrange some green paper confetti scraps into the bottom of your tray to act as a barrier between the food and the tray, or for a pop of festive color here and there. Add the Robin Eggs to a small ramekin bowl, and arrange at the top left area of the tray. Add the jelly beans to a slightly larger bowl, and place them towards the middle bottom of the tray. Next, add the bunny graham crackers to a slightly larger bowl, and arrange towards the top left of the tray. Finally, add the M&Ms to a small ramekin and arrange towards the bottom right of the tray.
- Arrange the Hershey’s Kisses underneath the bunny grahams bowl, flowing between the jelly eggs and M&M’s bowls. Next, arrange the vanilla wafer cookies under the Robin Eggs, flowing down on an angle, next to the jelly beans. Place the strawberry wafer cookies under the bunny grahams bowl, to the right of the Hershey’s kisses, flowing on a diagonal, ending at the top of the M&Ms bowl.
- Arrange a 4 stack of Peeps bunnies on an angle at the top between the Robin Eggs and bunny grahams. The, add a 5 stack of Peeps chicks at the bottom, under the Hershey’s Kisses.
- Do a thin layer of mini marshmallows between the bowl and under the Peeps Bunnies in the bare middle section. Place the chocolate bunny on top of the marshmallows, and fill around the bunny with more marshmallows. Add another peep stack to the top right corner and the 4 chocolate covered strawberries bottom left between the vanilla cookies and the Peeps.
- Arrange some white chocolate covered pretzels in the bottom right corner and some Easter marshmallows in the top left corner. Fill in spots with Peep bunnies: 2 under the Easter marshmallows, 1 bottom left corner, and 1 on the right edge under the Peep chicks (above the strawberry cookie wafers). Add more Hershey’s Kisses to fill in the top middle. Place the 3 Easter egg cookies, one over each set of Hershey’s Kisses, and one over the mini marshmallows and vanilla wafers.
- Fill in the bare area at the top next to the Easter marshmallows with more pretzels. Then fill in the right side with some M&M’s by the strawberries. In the area by the strawberries, fill in gaps with mini marshmallows. Add a few more pretzels top right corner. Add more mini marshmallows to any remaining gaps. The final touch to add to the board are the decorative carrots (non-edible) to the tray. Use the images in the blog post as a guide where to fill in gaps.