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5 Steps To Making The Perfect Candy Charcuterie Board This Valentine’s Day

February 4, 2020

Candy charcuterie boards bring the sweet - whether you’re planning a date night in with your Valentine or a sweet Galentine’s Day party with your girls, the key ingredient to a successful night is sugar (ok, love is pretty crucial too!) These charcuterie boards by Gracie Lovekin (@gracielovekin) take the trend to a whole new level. Keep on reading if you’d like to make your candy charcuterie board this Valentine’s Day.

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1. Pick A Theme

You want to start with a theme - in this case Valentine’s Day - and pick a color scheme. This will keep your board from looking messy. Maybe you just want dark reds, chocolate browns and whites, or perhaps you want something more playful like pastel pinks, greens and purples. With your theme in mind, you can head on to the fun step - shopping for everything that matches your vision!

2. Find an Anchor

Choose an anchor dish - this will be your main focus on the board. Start from there first, and work outward, building candy around it. We recommend using something that will stand out and a few “co-anchors” to add some depth to your display. On these boards Gracie uses heart shaped ramekins as a nice focal point.

3. Embrace Variety

Use lots of different textures, shapes, and sizes! Squares of chocolate wrapped in pretty foil, sugared jube jubes, lollipops and novelty candy like hot lips and conversation hearts. Visually this helps avoid your board looking like one big pile of the same candy.

4. Experiment! It’s All About Presentation!

Be creative with how you prevent all your candy from spilling into one another. Here Gracie uses heart-shaped cookie cutters to contain brightly colored gumballs and chocolate covered Oreos as a border to prevent runaway jube jubes! Fan some candy out neatly, pile others and don’t be afraid to neatly stack items like candied pretzels and squares of chocolate!

5. Look For Different Flavors

Offer up something for everyone! Candy, chocolate, sweet, sour and maybe something with a touch of salt! This is super key. The point of any charcuterie board is to offer up variety, and things that compliment one another - a salty pretzel with a square of chocolate and a few mini marshmallows thrown in make for an amazing mix of flavours!