Christmas Dessert Board

A Christmas Dessert Board is the perfect way to serve all of your Christmas treats and desserts to your family and friends. We have all the directions you’ll need to make a fabulous Holiday dessert platter!

We are big fans of creating a dessert table for a party.  It is always a showstopper.  What could be better than a party decoration that is also chock full of yummy treats and desserts. But we’ve found it is not a practical solution for the Holidays. With the other Christmas decorations, the tree and all the presents we usually don’t have room to dedicate a “table” to the desserts so for the last few years we have been building a Christmas Dessert Board instead. We “borrowed” the idea from the French charcuterie board and it has been a big hit. We load the board up with a sampling all the Christmas treats we made that year, fill in with Christmas candy and let the Christmas fun begin!

Who wants to build a Christmas Charcuterie Board?

Here is our Christmas Dessert Board. So pretty and colorful and chocked full of yummy Christmas Desserts and Treats.  Sweet and Salty.  Chocolate and Vanilla.  Crunchy Toffee and Fluffy Marshmallows.  There is literally something for every one of our Christmas party guests.  Charcuterie (shaar·koo·tr·ee) boards are usually made with cheeses and salami but cookies and candies work fine too!

Picking the right serving platter/board

The first step is picking the right display for your Holiday treats. We use a big cutting board that we bought from Amazon.  But you can also use a large platter.  Or you can make a DIY version using a cardboard box – just cut it down to size and wrap it with Christmas Wrapping paper.  Easy peasy!

Don’t forget the Christmas Candy

Christmas Candy is the perfect filler for your Christmas Dessert Board.  We used it extensively to fill in around the outside of the board and in the blank spaces between the different cookies and other treats.  For our family, the must have candies are Candy Canes and Christmas M&M’s.  But here is the list of the other store-bought candies that we used:

• Candy Canes
• Christmas Peeps
• Christmas M&M’s
• Christmas Hershey’s Kisses
• Peppermint Butter Mints
• Christmas Gummy Bears
• Christmas Cadbury Chocolates
• Christmas Gum Drops

Dessert Ideas for your Christmas Charcuterie Board

On the top part of our Christmas Dessert Board you will find a nice combination of homemade cookies, candy and sweet popcorn.  We’ve included our super popular Sweet and Salty Santa Crunch Popcorn and of course our Homemade English Toffee which we have had every year for Christmas since we were children.  Starting at the top and clockwise, here are the treats in the picture above:

• Christmas Peeps
• Holiday Butter Cookies
• Candy Cane Peppermint Sugar Cookie Bites
• Candy Canes
• Homemade English Toffee
• Peppermint Sugar Cookie Bars
• Santa Crunch Popcorn

If you need a few more ideas for yummy red and green Christmas treats … check out Our Most Festive Christmas Desserts.

There are so many Two Sisters classics here in the middle section of our dessert board.  Christmas would not be Christmas with out Rice Krispie Treats and we have made are fun bite-sized Christmas Rice Krispie Bites again this year.  Chocolate Cookies, Frosted Cookies, Butter Cookies and Sugar Cookies … there is a cookie for everyone! Starting at the top and moving clockwise, here are the treats in the picture above:

• Christmas Rice Krispie Bites
• Peppermint Sugar Cookie Bars
• Christmas Butter Cookies
• Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
• Christmas Nut Mix
• Christmas Carrot Cake Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
• Christmas Pretzels
• Frosted Sugar Cookies

If you need a few more ideas … check out Our Most Delicious Christmas Cookies and our Best Christmas Rice Krispie Treats.

Ahhh … Frosted Sugar Cookies. Oh how we love you.  It is an annual Christmas-time family tradition to bake and decorate them that started with our mom when we were very young and has now extended to us and the kids in our family.  Start with our The Best Sugar Cookie Recipe and then add our The Best Buttercream Frosting recipe and you have a perfect Christmas cookie combination.  Starting at the top and moving clockwise, here are the treats in the picture above:

• Frosted Sugar Cookies
• Christmas Homemade Marshmallows
• Christmas Nut Mix
• White Christmas Marshmallow Pops
• Christmas Hershey’s Kisses
• Christmas M&M’s
• Christmas Peanut Clusters

If you need a few more ideas … check out Our Most Delicious Sugar Cookie Recipes and Our Most Adorable Christmas Treats.

Don’t Forget the Christmas Frosting

You are going to need some fun Christmas Frostings for your holiday desserts and you know Two Sisters has you covered on that front.  We used three of our yummy homemade frosting recipes on the desserts on this year’s board:

• Peppermint Buttercream Frosting on our Candy Cane Cookies and our Peppermint Sugar Cookie Bites.
• Buttercream Frosting on our Frosted Christmas Cookies.
• Cream Cheese Frosting on our Carrot Cake Christmas Cookies.

But if you need a few more ideas … check out Our Most Delicious Christmas Frostings.

Tips and Tricks for your Christmas Dessert Board

With a couple of year’s experience under our belts, here are a few tips and tricks for building the perfect Christmas Dessert board:

• Less is more. We only put a handful of each Christmas treat out on the board – 5 or 6 of each thing is plenty. Then throughout the day we will replenish the board as people eat the various desserts.  
• Bite-sized is the right size. For Christmas we like to make our treats on the small-ish side. That way people can a bunch of the different Christmas desserts and not feel like that are over-indulging. 
• Variety is the spice of life.  We try to have a big variety of holiday treats on our board.  Throw in something salty – like nuts and pretzels.  Marshmallows are a good way to mix things up. And remember, everybody loves Rice Krispie Treats.  You don’t have to just make cookies for Christmas!
• Mix up the colors.  When we are arranging the desserts on the board, we try not to put things that are the same color next to each other. By alternating the colors on the board you help each individual dessert pop out and shine on its own.
• Candy is your friend. Use the store-bought candy as filler.  It is great along the outside of  your board and in the nooks and crannies between the different desserts.  

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