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Chocolate Charcuterie Board

Modified: Mar 24, 2025 · Published: Apr 21, 2019 by Dannyelle Nicolle-Ramjist · This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

Attention chocolate lovers! You will love this chocolate charcuterie board perfect for your next party. Check out our tips on building your board, and ingredient suggestions.

Chocolate charcuterie dessert board.
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  • Why We Love This
  • Tips for Assembling
  • Ingredients:
  • How To Build Your Chocolate Charcuterie Board
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • More Chocolate Inspiration

Why We Love This

  • It looks amazing and brings the wow factor to entertaining.
  • It's very easy to put together with storebought chocolates and bakery bought baked good.
  • Chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate -could there be any better reason to love it?
Donuts, chocolates, chocolate bars and cookies on an all chocolate dessert board.

My daughter loves chocolate, so we thought this would be a fun addition to her birthday party as part of dessert -and it was! Everyone loved it the dessert charcuterie board, and it was really fun to put together.

You've heard of a meat and cheese charcuterie board, but dessert boards are becoming more and more popular. Strictly speaking, the classic charcuterie board refer to cured meat, but more and more the term charcuterie board is being used to refer to any collection of items served together on a board -even desserts for the sweet tooth. We've found that these kind of boards are the perfect way to elevate things and make a great addition to any special get together.

Tips for Assembling

There are no real rules when it comes to putting together a charcuterie board, especially a chocolate one. But there are a few tips to help you get started.

Chocolate macarons with chocolates and cookies in the background on a chocolate dessert board.

First of all, when you're shopping think about different shapes, sizes, and colours and try to get a variety.

Secondly, a board like this can get expensive. We looked at the dollar store and the bulk store for most of our chocolates. Remeber you only need small quantities of each kind of chocolate. Don't go overboard on buying too much of the same thing. It's more fun to have lots of variety.

Empty chocolate wrappers from a chocolate dessert board.

Ingredients:

Chocolate charcuterie dessert board labeled with ingredinets.

Here's what we used, to give you some chocolate charcuterie board ideas:

  • peanut butter cups
  • skor bar
  • twix bar
  • kinder egg bar
  • chocolate covered almonds
  • kit kat bar
  • chocolate covered pretzels
  • dairy milk with nuts
  • chocolate covered sponge toffee
  • cookies and cream bar
  • chocolate cappuccino almonds
  • turtles
  • ferrero rocher
  • chocolate wafer cookies
  • celebration caramel cookies
  • pirouette chocolate hazelnut cookies
  • mini nutella
  • mini chocolate donuts
  • chocolate macarons
  • mini nutella filled donuts
  • cannoli
  • toffifee chocolates
  • dark chocolate bar

I tried to include some of our favorite chocolate bars, chocolates, snacky items, cookies, and a few baked goods from the bakery as the main components.

It's nice to try and have a good variety. And there are certainly tons and tons of chocolate items that you could include. I didn't include any fresh fruit for our board, but you might want to consider something like fresh strawberries for your board.

A chocolate charcuterie board full of chocolate treats.

How To Build Your Chocolate Charcuterie Board

The Board

You'll want to begin with a board to use as the base. Look for the perfect size for your group. Use smaller boards for a smaller crowd, and something larger when there is lots of people. We used a round board for our base, but round, square, or rectangle are all great choices.

Start With Containers

I used three gold measuring cups as containers on my board. You could also use small bowls or ramekins. The bowls help define the board a little, and help coral small items.

Chocolate cookies, chocolates, and chocolate bars on a chocolate charcuterie board.

Add Height In The Middle

I used my measuring cup to stand up the pirouette cookies in the middle, and stacked up the wafer cookies. These two components were my starting place and helped create some drama and height in the middle of the board -and take this board to the next level.

Chocolate wafer cookies with a chocolate dessert board in the background.

Fan  Around A Container

Pro Tip: We fanned out some of the Celebration caramel cookies around one of the measuring cups, it helps add interest to the board.

Chocoalte cookies on a large chocolate dessert board.

Use Odd Numbers

In design, odd numbers of items add interest, so think about using groups of three, five, or seven of an item. I used three measuring cups, and three of most of the baked goods.

Chocolate wafer cookies and mini chocolate donuts on a large chocolate charcuterie board.
Chocolate cappuccino almonds and mini Nutella filled donuts on a chocolate charcuterie board.

Fill In The Outside Of The Board First

Use some of your items to create a border around the side of the board with them. Then just fill in the rest of the board. It makes building the board easier and looks great.

Large chocolate charcuterie dessert round board.

Use Different Sizes, Colours, and Textures

Try varying the colours, sizes, and textures that are right next to each other. Break up all the milk chocolate with some different flavors like white, and some dark chocolate. 

Adding in some baked goods gives some variation of texture and size and adds interest to the board.

Chocolate covered almonds, chocolates, cookies, and donuts on a chocolate charcuterie board.

The chocolate snack board was really a huge hit at the party. It added lots of drama, and a bit of excitement to the party, the girls couldn't wait to dig into all the chocolate! It was so much fun and definitely their favorite treat of the night.

Mini jar of Nutella on a chocolate charcuterie dessert board.

Frequently Asked Questions

How can you do this on a budget?

To keep costs down look for your favorite chocolate bars at the dollar store. Buy small quantities of chocolates at the bulk food store, to add lots of different kinds without breaking the bank. Add a few homemade or bakery bought baked goods for varation.

Can I make this ahead of time?

Assemble your board the day of the party and to keep the baked goods fresh be sure to wrap it tightly with plastic wrap until serving time.

What about the leftovers?

Have some small foodsafe goodie bags on hand so that your guests can help themselves to the leftovers to take home with them. Or use leftover chocolates and chocolate bars cut into bite sized pieces as a substitute for the chocolate chips in cookies.

More Chocolate Inspiration

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    Easy One Bowl Brownies
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If you tried this Chocolate Charcuterie Board or any other idea on my blog please let me know how it went in the comments below. Thanks for visiting today!

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