Valentine's Day Charcuterie Board and How to Make Meat Roses

charcuterie board with meat roses and Valentine's Day candies

Valentine's Day Charcuterie Board and How to Make Meat Roses

Course: Appetizer

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Dessert, Easy, Family Friendly, Holiday, Party

Prep Time: 30

Cook Time: 0

Total Time: 30

Servings:

Calories: 809kcal

Author: Marilyn

Learn how to make meat roses to add to a festive charcuterie board, including Valentine's Day. The recipe comes with easy, detailed instructions and pictures for assembling your board.

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Equipment

Charcuterie Board
Heart-shaped Cookie Cutters

Ingredients

8 ounce block of cheddar cheese
8 ounce block of pepper jack cheese
40 slices round deli meat
Crackers
Sweethearts candies
Heart-shaped chocolates
Valentine’s M&Ms candies
Fresh Raspberries

Instructions

🔪 How To Make a Meat Rose

Start by folding a piece of salami in half over the edge of a shot glass. or champagne flute.
Add another slice to the rim of the glass halfway overlapping the previous slice. Continue making the first layer with more salami slices.
Repeat folding and layering the salami over the first layer until you have used 10 slices. Push the pepperoni slices against the inside and outside of the shot glass to keep the rose formed.
Turn the shot glass upside down onto your work surface and gently release the rose from the glass. Repeat until you have made 4 meat. pepperoni roses.

🔪 Assemble the Charcuterie Board

Slice your blocks of cheese lengthwise across the widest part of the block into ⅓-inch slice slices. Depending upon the depth of your cheese, you may get 2 to 3 slices. Use the cutter to cut heart shapes into the blocks of cheese.
Use the heart-shaped cutter to cut heart shapes into the blocks of cheese. Use a small glass bowl to push down onto the cutter and cut through the cheese.
Arrange the crackers onto the charcuterie board, starting from the top left, then layering them down on an angle, 1 to 2 inches from the bottom right corner.
Halfway down the line of your crackers, arrange a salami rose above and below the crackers.
Arrange the cheese hearts next to the salami flowers to help them hold their shape.
Add the Sweethearts around the bottom of the meat rose and up to the crackers. Add another rose next to the cheddar hearts and the crackers. Add the chocolate hearts under the rose filling the bottom corner of the board.
Add raspberries in an arc over the top of the cheese hearts touching the roses at both ends. Add more raspberries next to the pepper jack hearts filling in the left side.
Add Valentine's Day M&Ms around the top rose and filling in the corner. Add more M&Ms on the middle right side, filling in the empty spaces between the chocolate hearts, the meat rose and the cheddar cheese hearts.
Arrange the last meat rose in the upper right corner to complete the charcuterie board. Then, stand back and admire your gorgeous charcuterie board!

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