Ugly Sweater Charcuterie Board

For a fun, spirited holiday party, serve an Ugly Sweater Charcuterie Board with retro foods and snacks! Don’t forget to wear your ugly sweaters! Think jello molds, spam, peanut brittle, cheese balls, fruit cake, and more!

Have you thought about hosting an Ugly Sweater Party? Well, we have the best Ugly Sweater Charcuterie Board ideas for a fun holiday gathering. Make the invite, have everyone wear their ugliest sweater, and create a spread of cheese boards. We’ve had this festive board on RE since December 2019! It’s still super popular and oh, so merry!

Make your best board with retro-style foods, like jello, peanut brittle, spam, fruit cake, and more. Don’t forget all the meats, cheese ball, and olives!

Ugly Sweater Charcuterie Board

We love to grab our biggest board for this appetizer. And if you have several, you can really create a spread. Get the shopping list below of our favorite finds, and ask your friends to help you create the big board.

Why I love this board

• Guests love all the retro “bites”
• It’s festive and fun, especially if everyone wears their favorite ugly sweater.
• You can ask each guest to bring a retro bite (recipe) and build the board together.
• It’s overall a FUN party board!

Don’t forget to make the theme with retro recipes and snacks!

Retro foods to include

• Jello mold and fruit cake
• Spam and cheese balls
• Black olives and pigs in a blanket
• Peanut brittle and peanuts
• Cheese balls

Gather these ingredients:

• Fruit cake
• Candy canes
• Peanut brittle
• Caramel and cheddar popcorn mix
• Spam and Cheese Skewers
• Spam, sliced
• Cheese cubes
• Black olives: or you can use green olives
• Peppermint bark
• Trader Joes english toffee
• Salted peanuts
• Prosciutto cheese rolls
• Trader Joes scalloped crackers
• Jello mold
• Trader Joes chocolate pretzel twists
• Ham and Pickle Skewers
• Sweet pickles
• Cream cheese
• Black forest ham, slices
• Cheese ball
• Pigs in a blanket
• Hotdogs
• Crescent rolls – follow the Mini Crescent Dogs recipe
• Ketchup
• Yellow mustard
• Trader Joes fruit jellies

How do you make an ugly sweater board?

1. On a prepared 26-inch board, place the fruit cake and jello (each on a plate). In small dishes, put the cheese ball, olives, and cherries.
2. Make ham and pickle skewers by wrapping the ham around the pickle and cutting into small pieces, threading with a small skewer.
3. Make pigs in a blanket with crescent rolls and hot dogs. Follow the Mini Crescent Dogs Recipe. Cut into bite-size pieces.
4. Place 2 small bowls of mustard and ketchup near the pigs in a blanket.
5. Fill in the open ares with the remaining foods. ENJOY!

How do you serve holiday boards?

You may have seen my Epic Retro Spam Charcuterie Board last year. This board is a spin-off of that board, but everyone must wear an ugly Christmas sweater!

Serve your favorite cocktails, and if it’s a large party, ask everyone to bring a retro potluck dish!

This board can be the “centerpiece” of the party!

You can serve it with other boards!

How to host an ugly sweater Christmas party

1. Invite your guests. Ask them to wear an ugly sweater. You can buy them at thrift stores, raid your grandma’s closet, or look online for the ugliest holiday sweaters you can find!
2. The center of your ugly sweater party food table? This charcuterie board! For the rest of the food, forget gourmet — go retro and fun.
3.  To drink, offer an assortment of green and red sodas and Shirley Temples [optional to spike with vodka].
4. Make a non-alcoholic Holiday Punch (or spike it!) or Sangria.

Now let’s have fun!

Oh, and Alder the Whoodle got a sweater for the party, too! Enjoy!

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Ugly Christmas Sweaters Charcuterie Board

For a fun, spirited holiday party ,serve this Ugly Sweater Charcuterie Board for your gathering! Don't forget to wear your ugly sweaters!

Make on the Epic 26-inch board.

Prep Time: 45 minutes mins

Total Time: 45 minutes mins

Yield: 12

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Ingredients

 

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• 1 3 ½ lb Fruit cake
• 12 candy canes
• 10 oz peanut brittle
• 7 oz caramel and cheddar popcorn mix
• 20 Spam and cheese skewers
• 12 oz spam
• 12 oz cheese cubes
• 6 oz black olives, pitted
• 8 oz peppermint bark
• 10 oz Trader Joes english toffee
• 1 c salted peanuts
• 10 prosciutto cheese rolls
• 4 oz Trader Joes scalloped crackers
• 1 Jello mold
• 12 Trader Joes chocolate pretzel twists
• 6 ham and pickle skewers
• 6 sweet pickles
• ½ cup cream cheese
• 6 slices black forest ham
• 8 oz cheese ball
• 8 pigs in a blanket
• 8 hot dogs
• 1 tube crescent rolls
• ketchup
• yellow mustard
• 1 lb Trader Joes fruit jellies

Instructions

 

• On a prepared board, place the fruit cake and jello (each on a plate).  In small dishes, put the cheese ball, olives, and cherries.
• Make ham and pickle skewers by wrapping the ham around the pickle and cutting into small pieces, threading with a small skewer.
• Make pigs in a blanket with crescent rolls and hot dogs. Cut into bite-size pieces.
• Place 2 small bowls of mustard and ketchup near the pigs in a blanket.
• Fill in the open ares with the remaining foods. ENJOY!

Notes

Reposted from DECEMBER 2019.

Cuisine: American

Course: Appetizer

Author: Sandy / Reluctant Entertainer

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