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Surprise your friends and family with this tasty and impressive Christmas grazing platter, shaped like a singing angel.

A cheese and vegetable platter arranged to look like an angel, with cucumber, cheese cubes, carrot slices, and tortilla chips.

Serve the board at your holiday parties in the run-up to Christmas, or enjoy it as a fun appetizer on the big day with my festive Christmas party bites, featuring mozzarella and tomato snowmen.

Snack boards like this and my Christmas veggie tray are always a hit because they’re easy to make and easy to customize with what you have available.

Recipe Tip

Add dried fruit, fresh fruit, nuts, or chocolate. Or serve it alongside this festive Christmas party dip featuring homemade hummus, whipped feta, pesto, and pomegranate seeds.

Key Ingredients

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  • Cheese: Red and white cheddar.
  • Veggies: Carrot, cucumber, and black olives (for the eyes and mouth).
  • Dip: Sour cream, Parmesan, garlic powder, onion powder, sea salt, and pepper.
  • Other: Tortilla chips.

Possible Variations

  • Cheddar: Swap for any cheese cubes you like.
  • Tortilla chips: Use plain or flavored.
  • Dip: Creamy guacamole, sweet onion dip, blue cheese dip, buffalo dip, or hummus.
  • Olives: Purple grapes or balsamic glaze would work too.
  • Veggies: Use any you like, such as peppers, celery, radishes, snap peas, broccoli, cauliflower florets, or cherry tomatoes.
  • Add-ons: Cured meats, nuts, crackers, fruit, chocolates, etc (be sure to check out my Christmas tree charcuterie board for more ideas).

How to Make Christmas Grazing Platter

A hand holding a glass jar of creamy white dip on a wooden Christmas grazing platter.
  1. Mix together all the ingredients for the dip (sour cream, Parmesan, onion powder, and garlic powder). Season and pour the dip into a bowl.
A hand places cubes of white cheese onto a wooden board with nacho chips, carrot slices, and cucumber rounds.
  1. Prepare the veggies and cube the cheeses. Arrange the ingredients on the platter.
Hands place a carrot strip halo onto a white dip with black olive eyes and mouth.
  1. Trim the olive eyes, eyelashes, and mouth. Slice a carrot thinly and cut out an oval-shaped halo. Top the details onto the board.

Sine’s Tips for Success

  • Make sure to use a suitable sized bowl for the dip so the face is in proportion to the rest.
  • Serve cocktail picks alongside the platter for easy snacking.

Planning a Holiday Spread?

Try my Christmas Caprese salad or snow globe burrata platter for more charming centerpieces.

How to Store Leftovers

Transfer the dip, cheese, and veggies to to an airtight container. Enjoy within 2 days.

A festive snack platter arranged to look like an angel.

Christmas Grazing Platter FAQs

Can I prepare the Christmas grazing platter ahead of time?

Yes. The board is suitable to make a few hours ahead. Keep it covered with plastic wrap in the fridge until ready to serve.

I don’t have cookie cutters. Can I still make the Christmas grazing platter?

Yes, absolutely! Just slice the carrots as with the cucumbers.

More Festive Boards

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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.
5 from 1 vote
Servings: 8 people

Christmas Grazing Platter

By Sine Siemkowicz
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
  • 2 carrots
  • 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.

Video

Notes

  • Be sure to use a bowl (for the face) that is in proportion to the rest of the platter.
  • Feel free to add any other ingredients such as cured meats, nuts, sweets, or fruit.
    • Cocktail picks are handy for easy snacking.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 323kcal, Carbohydrates: 18g, Protein: 17g, Fat: 21g, Saturated Fat: 10g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g, Monounsaturated Fat: 5g, Trans Fat: 0.01g, Cholesterol: 49mg, Sodium: 804mg, Potassium: 217mg, Fiber: 2g, Sugar: 3g, Vitamin A: 3086IU, Vitamin C: 2mg, Calcium: 413mg, Iron: 1mg

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

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    2 Comments

    1. Lois Marie says:

      5 stars
      This recipe is super easy and a fun way to serve a dip, cheese and chips. I switched out the dip for a white bean hummus and it looked great. Everyone loved it! Thanks foodbites 😇😊

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      1. Sine says:

        Thank you, yum that white bean hummus sounds delicious! I’m so thrilled everyone enjoyed it! Merry Christmas x Sine

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