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This fun Spooky Charcuterie Board is a showstopping platter and perfect for your next Halloween party!

A Spooky Charcuterie Board arranged as a skull with cheese, blueberries, kiwi, cashews, sliced salami border, and surrounded by small ghost string lights.

Featuring an array of cheese, cured meat, nuts, and fruit and shaped into a intricate skull, it’s sure to impress your friends and family.

Serve the board with crunchy crackers or my easy focaccia as a delicious appetizer or snack with your favorite glass of bubbly. Don’t skip the cocktail sticks on the side, so your guests can grab a little bit of this and a little bit of that.

Key Ingredients

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Spooky Charcuterie Board ingredients featuring assorted cheeses, fruits, salami, cucumber slices, blueberries, and cashews arranged in bowls on a gray surface, each labeled.
  • Cucumber: You’ll need snack cucumbers (pictured) and a three slices of a larger English cucumber for the eyes and nose (not pictured).
  • Blueberries: For the eyes and nose.
  • Cheddar: I use mature cheddar.
  • Manchego: Or any other triangular cheese.
  • Spicy salami: I buy Italian salami that is ready-sliced from the supermarket.
  • Cashews: To frame the eyes and nose. I like them salted.
  • Kiwi: Peel the kiwi so it’s easy to eat. Look for firm and unbrusied fruit.

Possible Variations

  • Snack cucumber: Small crackers or halved mozzarella slices.
  • Cheddar: Swap for any cheese you like such as mozzarella, feta, burrata, bocconcini, goat cheese log, etc.
  • Blueberries: Capers, kalamata olives, black olives, blackberries, pomegranate arils, or dark colored jam in small bowls.
  • Manchego: Try pecorino, asiago, Parmesan, Gouda, etc.
  • Spicy salami: Swap for other ready-to-eat cured meats such as chorizo, regular salami, mortadella, bresaola, or prosciutto.
  • Kiwi: Grapes, olives, figs, nectarine, or abricots.
  • Cashews: Pistachios, dried cranberries, or almonds.
  • Add-ons: Condiments such as honey, pesto, jam, olive tapenade, hot honey, dried fruit.
  • Here’s another charcuterie board I’ve made (it’s a vampire), just to show you some of the many ways to vary spooky charcuterie.
A Vampire face made from ham, mozzarella balls, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, and cheese is arranged on a wooden board. Surrounding it is small plastic spiders and string lights.

Recipe Tip

Add fun details like plastic spiders and candy eyes.

How to Make a Spooky Charcuterie Board

Cucumber slices arranged in the shape of a skull on a wooden board, with blueberries for the eyes and nose.
  1. Shape the cucumber eyes and nose with the larger cucumber Arrange the snack cucumber skull outline. Top with blueberries.
Sliced cucumber and blueberries form a skull on a wooden board, with hands holding stacked cheese slices as a mouth.
  1. Add the manchego teeth.
A spooky board featuring a cheese and cucumber skull, with blueberries for eyes and nose, arranged on a round wooden board.
  1. Top with the cheddar.
A spooky charcuterie board arranged to resemble a skull, made with cheese slices, cucumber, cashews, blueberries, and salami.
  1. Garnish with the cashews and salami.
A spooky charcuterie board arranged as a skull with cheese, kiwi, blueberries, cashews, and salami.
  1. Frame the skull with the halved kiwi slices.

Don’t like cheese?

Swap for any light colored food to make the skull, so try nuts, popcorn, white chocolate, marshmallows, cauliflower florets, or butter cookies.

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How to Store Leftovers

Transfer leftovers to an airtight container and keep them in the refrigerator. Enjoy within 2 days.

Spooky Charcuterie Board FAQs

Can I make the spooky charcuterie board in advance?

Yes! Prepare the board a few hours ahead and keep it covered in the fridge.

I don’t have a round cutting board like yours. Can I still make the spooky charcuterie board?

Sure. Use any board whether it’s oval, square, rectangular, or round. If you can, use one with a rimmed edge, so the ingredients will stay put.

A side view of a Spooky Charcuterie Board with sliced cheese, kiwi, cashews, blueberries, and a ring of salami, all arranged in a festive circular pattern.

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A Spooky Charcuterie Board arranged as a skull with cheese, blueberries, kiwi, cashews, sliced salami border, and surrounded by small ghost string lights.
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Servings: 8 people

Spooky Charcuterie Board

By Sine Siemkowicz
This fun skull board is made with cheese, cured meat, veggies, and nuts and sure to turn heads.
Prep: 40 minutes
Cook: 0 minutes
Total: 40 minutes
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Ingredients 

  • 3 slices cucumber, English
  • 2 snack cucumbers
  • 70 grams spicy salami
  • 180 grams cheddar
  • 1 kiwi
  • 120 grams manchego
  • 2 tablespoons blueberries
  • 2 tablespoons cashews

Instructions 

  • Cut 3 slices of the larger cucumber.
  • Trim along the peel on 2 of the slices and remove the flesh.
  • Place the round cucumber frames on a serving platter for the eyes.
  • Fill them with blueberries (I could fit 5).
  • Trim a heart-shape out of the last cucumber slice for the nose. Top with blueberries.
  • Slice the snack cucumbers and arrange them overlapping in a skull shape on your serving platter.
  • Cut the manchego and organise the wedges in a zipper-shape on the platter (these will be teeth).
  • Now, slice the cheddar and cut each slice into thirds.
  • Place the cheddar pieces along the inside of the cucumber frame and around the eyes.
  • Top the eyes and nose with more blueberries and garnish with cashews.
  • Peel and slice the kiwi. Cut each slice in half and arrange the halves on top of the cucumber frame.
  • Fold the spicy salami around the skull.
  • Serve.

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Nutrition

Calories: 226kcal, Carbohydrates: 6g, Protein: 12g, Fat: 17g, Saturated Fat: 9g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g, Monounsaturated Fat: 4g, Cholesterol: 45mg, Sodium: 438mg, Potassium: 206mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 3g, Vitamin A: 400IU, Vitamin C: 11mg, Calcium: 338mg, Iron: 1mg

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

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