This quick and easy Chocolate Dessert Charcuterie Board is filled with indulgent handheld desserts that can be assembled in minutes. Whether you create this board for your love ones or just for fun, this board will be empty before the end of the night!

Easy Dessert Charcuterie Board

If you’re needing an excuse to make the perfect dessert charcuterie board or in need of a last minute dessert, this chocolate board is the solution. Go ahead and call your closest friends and tell them to come on over! How do you know what cookies and sweets to plan for a dessert board? First, ask yourself what kinds of sweets you want to offer. For example, do you want a board that features different kinds of cookies, various candies, two bite cakes, mini muffins and cupcakes or a mixture of it all. Once you decide, you’re ready to assemble. How to make a simple Chocolate Dessert Charcuterie Board: (Scroll down for full printable recipe.)

Sauces – Prepare the Hot Fudge Sauce and Salted Caramel Sauce one day in advance and chill until assembling the board. (Tip: You can use a quality prepared hot fudge sauce and caramel sauce for a time saver.)
Choose and Prep the Board – Use a lint free cloth to wipe and prepare board. Make sure the board is food safe.
Arrange Cookies – Start with larger cookies and place them along the edges of board. The process images will help give you a guideline for how to begin.
Add – Fill in the center of the board with donut holes, cubed cake, brownies and pretzels.
More Sweets – Fill in bare spots with the remaining muddy buddies, pocky sticks, stroopwafels, candied popcorn, pirouette, candy, chocolates and fresh strawberries. (Have fun it’s like decorating with food!)
Dips – Leave room for the chocolate fudge sauce and salted caramel sauce. Warm them both in the microwave then place into small decorative dessert bowls or wide mouth jars and place on the board.
Add bamboo picks or toothpicks near the fruit, hot fudge and caramel for easy pick up.
Serve your freshly assembled diy fruit and chocolate charcuterie board immediately and enjoy!

How to Make a Chocolate Dessert Charcuterie Board

Ingredients you’ll need to make the best Chocolate Dessert Charcuterie Board: Chocolate Chip Double Chunk Cookies, Double Chocolate Cookies, Madeleine Cookies, Donut holes, Turtle Brownie Squares, Angel Food Cake, Chocolate Covered Pretzels, Shortbread Cookies, Lindor Chocolate Truffles, Knoppers, Hershey Nuggets,Chocolate Bars, Stroopwafels, Mini Stroopwafels, Chocolate Mini Crullers, Candy Pop Snickers Popcorn, Pocky Sticks, Muddy Buddy Trail Mix, Chocolate Fudge Pirouette, French Vanilla Pirouette, Homemade Hot Fudge, Homemade Dulce de Leche Caramel, Strawberries,
Kitchen tools you’ll need: A large square, rectangular or round food safe charcuterie board or tray, jars, decorative picks or toothpicks, sharp knife and cutting board.
There are NO rules when choosing the kind of sweets you want to include on your board. Choose the cookies, doughnuts, muffins or cakes that you like considering the dietary needs of those you’re serving.
The same goes for the candies. This is a fun time to indulge go for the gold!
Make sure you add different textures and a pop of color. Different textures and shapes will help how the eye flows throughout the board.
Make sure the board you’re using is food safe. If you aren’t certain, line the board with a cloth napkin or a piece of parchment paper to separate the food from the board. Bonus, easy cleanup, too!
For this dessert board I like to include my Homemade Hot Fudge Sauce and Salted Caramel Sauce for dipping. If you want to go completely prep free, you can use a quality store bought fudge sauce warmed in the microwave and a can or jar of premade caramel sauce.
You could also add a cream cheese fruit dip or strawberry sauce. This is one dessert that you can have fun with and get creative!
Store any sweets left behind from your Chocolate Dessert Board in airtight containers at room temperature.
Store any fruit, sauces and dips chilled.

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