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Surprise your friends and family with this tasty and impressive Christmas Grazing Platter. Serve it at your holiday parties in the run-up to Christmas, or enjoy it as a fun appetizer on the big day.

A festive snack platter arranged to look like an angel, featuring healthy bites like cheese cubes and carrot slices, a dip for the head, and tortilla chips for wings. Decor and pine branches appear in the background.
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Snack boards are always a hit because there’s something for everyone, and they’re easy to customize. Feel free to swap out any ingredients with what you have available. You can even add dried fruit, fresh fruit, nuts, or chocolate. So good!

A cheese and vegetable platter arranged to look like an angel, with cucumber, cheese cubes, carrot slices, tortilla chips, and a dip decorated as the angel's face.

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A festive snack platter arranged to look like an angel, featuring healthy bites like cheese cubes and carrot slices, a dip for the head, and tortilla chips for wings. Decor and pine branches appear in the background.
Servings: 8 people

Christmas Grazing Platter

Festive angel platter with cheese, tortilla chips, cucumber, and carrot, served with a delicious onion dip.
Prep: 45 minutes
Cook: 0 minutes
Total: 40 minutes
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Equipment

Ingredients 

Dip

  • 200 grams sour cream, or creme fraiche
  • 50 grams Parmesan
  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • 2 teaspoons onion powder
  • 1 tsp sea salt
  • pepper, to taste

Platter

  • 2 black olives
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 cucumber
  • 200 grams white cheddar
  • 200 grams red cheddar
  • 150 grams tortillas chips

Instructions 

  • Mix all the ingredients for the dip: sour cream, onion powder, garlic powder, parmesan, sea salt and pepper.
  • Add the dip to a glass bowl for the angel’s face.
  • Slice the carrots and use a petal cutter to shape them (or cut them into discs).
  • Cube the cheese.
  • Cut the cucumber into slices.
  • To make the halo, slice a large carrot thinly and shape it into a thin oval shape. Cut an oval shape out of the center, too.
  • To make the mouth, slice the side of a black olive.
  • For the eyes, halve a black olive and julienne trim into a curved shape for the eyelid and straight lines for the lashes.
  • Arrange the ingredients onto a board and top with the carrot halo.

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Nutrition

Calories: 320kcal, Carbohydrates: 17g, Protein: 17g, Fat: 21g, Saturated Fat: 10g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g, Monounsaturated Fat: 5g, Trans Fat: 0.01g, Cholesterol: 49mg, Sodium: 799mg, Potassium: 192mg, Fiber: 2g, Sugar: 2g, Vitamin A: 1812IU, Vitamin C: 2mg, Calcium: 410mg, Iron: 1mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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