Your Halloween Party Needs a Scary Charcuterie Board
When candy doesn’t cut it, look to the meat and cheese board.
Despite all the candy and colorfully packaged cake and cookies in the grocery store, Halloween isn’t actually much of a food holiday—especially when compared to the big hitters like Thanksgiving. Since I’m training to be a long distance runner, I have less room on my plate for a bag of Twix, anyway. Suffice to say, I was having trouble getting hyped for Halloween—until scary charcuterie boards crossed my path.
A friend of mine sent me an Instagram reel from Petal & Platter which featured some truly alarming, but clever ways to dress a cheese and meat platter for Halloween. (Brie cheese Pennywise, the clown from Stephen King’s It, is almost too much for me to look at.) After getting over my initial scary clown reaction, I was inspired. There might be hope for Halloween as a food holiday. At the very least, it can be a substantial-snack holiday.
The two most important parts of a Halloween charcuterie board
I noticed a couple patterns in the Petal & Platter charcuterie and cheese boards. The key is to have one…
