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This Hot Chocolate Charcuterie Board is perfect for all your holiday entertaining this year. Party guests will love personalizing their own mug of hot cocoa with this fun variety of tasty toppings!

Hot chocolate charcuterie board on wooden table

Hot Chocolate Board

Christmas charcuterie boards are everywhere this time of year and for good reason! These grazing or snack boards make such a pretty presentation and are always a fun way to serve a crowd.

After making this festive Candy Cane Snack Board, I began think about other fun ideas for the holiday season. Well, who doesn’t love a hot cup of cocoa! With this hot cocoa board, everyone can add whatever delicious toppings they like.

The best thing about charcuterie boards are that they look impressive but they’re actually super easy to pull together. For this cocoa-themed board, you just place a bowl of classic hot chocolate mix in the center of a large serving board. Then just surround it with different candies, marshmallows and other customizable toppings.

A festive charcuterie board for Christmas featuring a variety of desserts, including chocolate dip and candy canes.

Why We Love this Idea

Perfect for parties – Hot cocoa or dessert charcuterie boards are always the perfect addition to parties, family get-togethers or any special occasion. It’s also fun for your next family movie night!
Simple – It doesn’t require a lot of fancy ingredients. You can get everything you need from the grocery store or Target.
So much fun – A hot cocoa board adds so much holiday fun to parties when you’re serving a big group because everyone gets to add their own favorite toppings.
Customizable – It’s easy to make this into a smaller board using fewer toppings or smaller amounts for just a few people.

Recommended Tools:

Large cutting board (or any style of a charcuterie board)
Various small bowls
Stir sticks
Small spoons for the toppings
Mugs

What’s Needed to Make a Hot Cocoa Board

Ingredients for Hot Chocolate Charcuterie Board

Swiss Miss Hot Cocoa Mix
Semi-sweet chocolate chips or chunks
Brach’s crushed candy canes
Chocolate and peppermint hot cocoa stirrers
Ghirardelli peppermint bark squares
Peppermint Hershey kisses
Hot Cocoa Bombs
Christmas sprinkles
Pirouline wafer cookies
Miniature candy canes or peppermint sticks
Mini marshmallows
Christmas shaped marshmallows (or regular miniature marshmallows)
Snowman Hot Cocoa cup toppers (got ours from Target)
Paper straws

How to Make a Hot Cocoa Charcuterie Board

Step 1. To build this board, start with a bowl of cocoa in the center of the board, wooden tray or large platter.

Note: Don’t overfill it because you can refill it as needed.

Hot cocoa mix in bowl with bowl of chocolate

Step 2. Placed the chocolate chunks and crushed peppermints on the board with a smaller cup of sprinkles.

Note: You can place things and rearrange, as needed. The bowls give a nice starting point.

Hot chocolate mix with sprinkles and peppermint

Step 3. Add the longer ingredients and spread them out around the board (straws, Pirouline wafers, and cocoa stirrers).

Pretzels and cookie sticks added to charcuterie board

Step 4. Fill in around those with Ghirardelli chocolate squares, mini candy canes, and Hershey kisses.

Step 5. Fill in all of the outer spaces with the fluffy marshmallows.

Hot Chocolate Charcuterie Board with towel and Christmas decor

Step 6. Position the hot chocolate bombs and cocoa toppers around the board.

Step 7. Finally, go around the board and fill in any empty space wherever needed with more candy canes, straws, marshmallows or other candies, to give the board a really full appearance.

It’s just that easy! Your hot chocolate dessert board ready to serve at your next holiday party! Just add mugs of warm milk or water!

Hot Chocolate Charcuterie Board from above

What Does the Word Charcuterie Mean?

Charcuterie is a French word and a fancy way of saying “cooked assortment of meats.” Now, charcuterie boards are referred to as themed assortment of foods arranged on a large wood board or serving tray.

You can make dessert boards with different bite sized sweets, fruit boards, finger sandwich charcuterie boards or for all the hot chocolate lovers in your life, this fun hot cocoa board.

Other Yummy Hot Chocolate Toppings

Candy: You can add other flavors of Hershey’s kisses, white chocolate chips, caramel candies, Andes mints or soft peppermints. As long as it will melt in the warm cocoa, it works.

Cocoa: We love to use premade classic hot cocoa mix but you can add other flavors like mocha, salted caramel or white chocolate cocoa mix.

Sauces: Another great way to top hot cocoa is with whipped cream and a drizzle of caramel sauce or chocolate syrup.

Stir sticks: Cinnamon sticks make great stir sticks. You can also serve chocolate spoons, peppermint spoons or peppermint sticks to stir the hot cocoa.

Hot Chocolate Charcuterie Board with sweets

Can I Serve Homemade Hot Chocolate with this Board?

You can certainly use homemade hot cocoa instead of the dry mix. To make it easier to serve a crowd, you can add any of your favorite hot chocolate recipes to a large slow cooker so it’ll stay warm throughout the party.

Boozy Hot Cocoa Board

For an adults-only twist, you can serve boozy hot cocoa! Peppermint schnapps, amaretto, spiced rum or Irish cream is the perfect way to take a cup of hot cocoa to the next level.

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Hot Chocolate Charcuterie Board