Halloween Dessert Charcuterie Board – A fun twist on serving up sweet snacks, candy, and fruit for Halloween.

This post and recipe was created for #HalloweenTreatsWeek, a sponsored blogger virtual event, but, as always, opinions are 100% mine.

Serve up a fun mix of orange, black, purple, and while snacks, candy, and fruit! Enjoy fall colors and flavors!

My kids were absolutely thrilled when I was making this since I was making this before dinner one day. “YAY!!! LOOK AT OUR DINNER!!!”

Sorry babes, no candy for dinner!

Halloween Dessert Charcuterie Board

Give me a charcuterie board any day! I love them.

They can be really simple with just a few beautifully arranged things or really complex with folded meats, blocks of honey comb, and fancy cheeses. No matter what, they are my favorite things at a party.

This Halloween Dessert Charcuterie Board should inspire you to make a board that features fall and Halloween themed and colored items with your typical favorite items.

I love making boards like this because you have so many options to make it delicious and beautiful.

Generally you want to focus on having a fun combination of flavors, textures, and colors. I think this typically achieved with a balance of cheese, meat, fruit, vegetables, dips, and crackers.

The rules still apply with a sweet dessert board. Use cookies and candies of different flavors, colors and textures. Balance that some savory things like crackers and pretzels. Sweet and salty go so well together.

Years ago, I went to an event where the host was making cheeseboards. I picked up a really great simple tip that makes enjoying a charcuterie board even better than normal.

CUT UP THE GRAPES!

This is really simple but is a game changer. Cut the grapes into small clusters, so you’ll have 4-6 grapes on the vine. Pile those small clusters up so people can easily grab a cluster without having to touch the grapes much. Genius!

Enjoy a Halloween Dessert Charcuterie Board with your favorite treats. Have fun making it fun, beautiful, spooky, and, most importantly, delicious.

Take a look more spooky Halloween recipes from our #HalloweenTreatsWeek Bloggers today: Halloween Cookies & Bars:

• Peanut Butter Spider Cookies from BigBearsWife
• Chocolate Almond Owl Eye Cookies from Savory Moments
• Halloween Sugar Cookies from House of Nash Eats
• Mini Mallowmar Candy Corn Cookies from Sweet ReciPEAS
• Chocolate Chip Spider Cookies from Fresh Coast Eats

Halloween Cakes & Cupcakes:

• Pumpkin Layer Cake from The Flour Handprint
• Flying Purple People Eater Cake Balls from The Spiffy Cookie

Halloween Brownies:

• Pumpkin Patch Brownies from Cheese Curd in Paradise
• Cream Cheese Brownies with Pumpkin from Back To My Southern Roots

Halloween Bread:

• Pan de Muerto (Day of the dead bread) from Lemon Blossoms

Halloween Drinks:

• Screamsicle Milkshake from For the Love of Food
• Eye of Newt Halloween Milkshake from It’s Shanaka

Sweet Halloween Treats:

• Halloween Marshmallow Pops from Devour Dinner
• Monster Mouths from Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks
• Spooky Peanut Butter Balls from Tastes of Homemade
• Spider Web Ice Cream Pie from An Affair from the Heart
• Halloween Fudge from Sweet Beginnings
• The Best Halloween Muddy Buddies Mix from Family Around the Table
• Halloween Treat Popcorn Balls from Karen’s Kitchen Stories
• Halloween Charcuterie Board from I am a Honey Bee

Savory Halloween Recipes: 

• Air Fried Bat Wings from A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures

Happy Halloween! Spooky Season is here and it is time for 2020’s #HalloweenTreatsWeek event! #HalloweenTreatsWeek is a yearly Halloween blogging event that is hosted by Angie from Big Bear’s Wife  & its a creepy and haunting week-long event is filled with some amazingly wicked Halloween treats, recipes and some frightfully fun giveaways.

“When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers ‘tis near Halloween.”

For the 3rd annual #HalloweenTreatsWeek event we have 30 hauntingly talented bloggers that are sharing their favorite Halloween recipes throughout the week! Follow the hashtag #HalloweenTreatsWeek on social media and look at the bottom of each post to see all of the Halloween recipes that we’re sharing!

Plus, don’t forget that we have some great giveaways for you this week thanks to our amazing sponsor and bloggers this year!  

Prize #1 from Dixie Crystals

OXO Good Grips 3-Piece Stainless-Steel Mixing Bowl Set

Prize #2 from Angie at BigBearsWife 

Ninja OP301 Foodi 9-in-1 Pressure, Slow Cooker, Air Fryer and More, with 6.5 Quart Capacity and 45 Recipe Book, and a High Gloss Finish

Prize #3 from Nicole Taggart’s Origami Owl Jewelry Bar

Origami Owl Locket and Halloween Charms

Prize #4 from Kathy at Lemon Blossoms 

6 Quart Instant Pot Duo 7-in-1 Electric Pressure Cooker

Prize #5 from Terri at Our Good Life

Young Living’s Thieves Mints ($50 Value)

Pop a Thieves Mint into your mouth for cinnamint-fresh breath after meals. Made with naturally derived ingredients and free of artificial sweeteners, dyes, and preservatives, Thieves Mints are a choice you can feel good about. Created with Young Living’s Thieves essential oil blend, these mints deliver minty coolness with a hint of warm, sugar-free sweetness. Thieves Mints come in a conveniently sized container that is great to take on the go!!

Prize #6 from Julie  at Back To My Southern Roots

1 Copy of  – The Peanuts Family Cookbook: Delicious Dishes for Kids to Make with Their Favorite Grown-Ups

Prize #7 from Peabody of Sweet ReciPEAS

1 Copy of her new cookbook “Holy Sweet! 60 Indulgent Recipes for Bigger, Better Desserts”

Prize #8 from Megan of Strawberry Blondie Kitchen

1 Copy of her cookbook, “Incredible One-Pot Cooking: Easy, Delicious Recipes for Exciting Meals Without the Mess”

Prize #9 from Nicole of For the Love of Food Blog

1 Copy of “Friends: The Official Cookbook”

Prize #10 from Michaela from An Affair from the Heart, Jennifer from Take Two Tapas and Michele from West Via Midwest

ONE (1) $75 Amazon gift card

Prize #11 from Shanaka from It’s Shanaka

ONE (1) $25 Amazon gift card

Prize #12 from Ashley from Cheese Curd In Paradise

1 Copy of her cookbook, ” The Serial Killer Cookbook: True Crime Trivia and Disturbingly Delicious Last Meals from Death Row’s Most Infamous Killers and Murderers”

Prize #13 from Amy from House of Nash Eats

ONE (1) $100 Amazon gift card

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  Giveaway open to US Residents 18 years or older. All entries will be verified. No PO Boxes Please. Prizes will be sent directly from sponsors to winners, bloggers are not responsible for prizes. This giveaway runs from October 5th – October 10th at 11:59PM EST. Winners will be selected soon afterward and contacted by e-mail. Winners will have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. There are a total of 14 prizes and therefore we will have a total of 14 winners. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited by law. Disclaimer: These posts and recipes are part of the week-long event, #HalloweenTreatsWeek but all opinions are 100% mine! We would like to Thank our amazing brand sponsors: Dixie Crystals that provided a prize pack for our giveaways and also sent some samples and products to the #HalloweenTreatsWeek bloggers to use in their recipes. We would also love to give a huge thanks to our Halloween Treats Week bloggers because a lot of them also donated prizes for the giveaways, including:  Angie of BigBearsWife ,  Nicole of Nicole Taggart’s Origami Owl Jewelry Bar, Kathy of Lemon Blossoms,  Terri of Our Good Life,  Julie of Back To My Southern Roots,  Peabody of Sweet ReciPEAS, Megan of Strawberry Blondie Kitchen, Nicole of For the Love of Food Blog, Michaela of An Affair from the Heart, Jennifer of Take Two Tapas , Michele of West Via Midwest, Shanaka of It’s Shanaka, Ashley of Cheese Curd In Paradise, and Amy from House of Nash Eats!