Anytime is a great time for a cheese board, and this is a perfect cocktail hour cheese board!
Depending on your preferences and what you have on hand, you can omit or substitute many of the ingredients on this board. When styling a cheese board, be sure to use an appropriate size base so the board appears full and spread out not empty. The more cheese boards you make, the more you will hone in on your own style – you really can’t go wrong here with so much delicious cheese!
Cocktail Hour Cheese Board
Ingredients
- 2 oz Manchego, thinly sliced into triangles
- 2 oz mini wheel Brie or Camembert
- 2 oz Blue Cheese wedge, partially crumbled
- 2 oz White Cheddar, sliced or broken into chunks
- 1 apple or pear, thinly sliced
- 2 fresh figs, halved
- 1/2 cup fresh blueberries or red grapes
- 1/4 cup Marcona almonds
- 1/4 cup honeycomb or 2 Tbsp local honey
- 4 oz croccantini crackers (white pointy ones)
- 4 oz fig and olive crackers
- 1 small warm baguette, optional
Directions
- On a medium platter or board, assemble cheeses. Try to spread out the different types of cheese so different cheeses are not touching.
- Add honeycomb or a small dish of honey.
- Pile on blueberries or grapes and fan out apple or pear slices.
- Fill the remaining large spaces with crackers.
- Top the remaining small spaces with almonds. Garnish with sliced figs.
- Serve with a warm baguette.
