Hot Chocolate Charcuterie Board

This Hot Chocolate Charcuterie Board has all the fixings for making the perfect hot chocolate. It's great for holiday or winter entertaining. Your guests will love helping themselves to everything they need.

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This hot chocolate charcuterie board is perfect for sharing with friends over the holiday season or anytime during the winter. It's full of all the treats you need to make the most delicious cup hot chocolate and is a really fun way to share with a crowd. Your guests will love it and it will take your cup of hot chocolate to the next level! This is perfect for any hot chocolate lovers.

You might also like our DIY Hot Chocolate Mix Recipe, Homemade Marshmallow Mug Toppers, Chocolate Charcuterie Board, or our S'mores Charcuterie Board.

Is It Really Charcuterie?

No, it isn't really charcuterie, in the traditional sense. The word charcuterie really means a cured meat products board, but in recent years this term has been used not just for a traditional charcuterie board filled with an assortment of meats, but also cheese boards, and even sweets boards. 

It seems to have a become a term that's interchangeable for any snack or dessert board, and here we're even using it for drink items.

Strictly speaking this is not really charcuterie, but a dessert board, but we're taking our cue from popular culture here. With dessert charcuterie boards becoming more and more popular, we think you'll love our classic hot chocolate version.

Ingredients

Here are the yummy hot chocolate toppings we included on ours:

• Hot Chocolate Mix: you can use our easy recipe to make your own or use store-bought. Remember to boil the kettle and warm some milk.
• Whipped Cream: Homemade is best. Just whip cream with a little sugar and vanilla. Or use the canned version.
• Candy Canes: these are perfect for chocolate mint lovers.
• Belgium Chocolate Wafers: We love this Belgium chocolate because it's such great quality.
• White Chocolate Wafers: For the white chocolate lovers.
• Chocolate Chips: Just to add a little more chocolate flavor to your hot chocolate.
• Rolo Chocolate and Caramel Candies: Add these for the caramel lovers to melt in their hot chcolate.
• Chocolate Spoons: We found these at the dollar store and they are always such a crowd pleaser.
• Marshmallows: Mini Marshmallows, Regular, and our Homemade Marshmallow Mug Toppers -or grab some store-bought ones. Homemade marshamallows are actually not too hard to make, and the best thing about homemade marshmallows taste is they are much lighter and fluffier, and more delicate than store-bought ones. We used cookie cutters to cut the snowflakes and hearts, but you could do any shape you liked. We drizzled some with melted chocolate and added sprinkles too.
• Wafer Cookies: Vanilla, and Chocolate these are the perfect cookies to dip in a hot chocolate.

Variations

We put the hot chocolate mix right on the charcuterie board. As another option you could instead make a crockpot full of hot chocolate.

Here's some other options for addtions to the board:

• White chocolate chips
• milk chocolate chips
• chocolate syrup
• hot chocolate bombs
• hershey kisses
• peanut butter cups
• caramel sauce, or syrup
• Mint: We added candy canes to our board for the mint lover, another great option would be some chocolate mint candies, or crushed peppermint candies, or peppermint sticks.

Making The Hot Chocolate Charcuterie Board

1. Start with a large tray or cutting board. We used a lazy Susan, which is perfect for a party, because guests can spin the board and reach things from all sides. We added our small bowls of whipped cream, hot chocolate mix, and then candy canes. The bowls help contain the ingredients and add some height to the board. We added small wooden spoons for serving.

2. Next, add all the rest of the chocolate, marshmallows, and cookies around the board to fill in all the other spaces.

Keep these hot chocolate charcuterie board ideas in mind for your next holiday party, Christmas eve, or as a great addition to movie night. It's sure to be a hit at any holiday gatherings.

With a hot chocolate charcuterie board to enjoy, life really is a party!

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