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Spook-cuterie Cheese Board
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Ingredients:
– Real California Brie or Camembert cheese wheel
– Real California white Cheddar or Monterey Jack cheese
– Real California mild Cheddar cheese
– Fresh black figs
– Grapes
– Pistachios
– Gooseberries
– Almond and salty date crackers (round board)
– Olives
– Mexican chocolate cookies (coffin board)
– Candy corn (coffin board)
– Raspberry jam
– Salami
– Edible flowers
– Fresh sage and opal basil
– Spider webs on the table below with skeleton hands and black cheese serving ware.
Equipment:
– Shape knife, ghost and pumpkin cookie cutters, straw
– Round version∶ Round black tray or shallow bowl, small bowl for olives, plastic skeleton hands, spider “webs”, small culinary syringes or pipettes for personal jam “servings”
– Coffin version∶ Coffin shaped chip bowl, plastic spiders, plastic skeleton hands, spider “webs”, small culinary syringes or pipettes for personal jam “servings”
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Directions:
You can make this board in a circular version and or in a coffin shaped chip bowl. Both use the same cheeses.
Prepare skull: Using a shape knife, carve brie or camembert wheel into a skull. Scoop out a bit from the eyes, nose and mouth and place raspberry jam inside. Add salami “roses” and edible flowers for crown.
Prepare ghost cheese: Use a ghost-shaped cookie cutter to cut white cheese. Add eyes and mouth using a straw to cut out those holes.
Prepare pumpkin cheese: Use a pumpkin cookie cutter to cut orange cheddar. If you want a more defined pumpkin look you can carve the lines on the top.
Prepare personal jam servings: Use a red colored jam and thin a little with water. Serve in mini syringes.
Round: Cheese skull with salami and edible flower crown, fresh figs, pumpkin and ghost cheeses, crackers, mini grapes, olives, gooseberries, fresh sage and opal basil, jam syringes and plastic spiders.
Coffin: Cheese skull with salami and edible flower crown, Mexican cookies, mini grapes, pumpkin and ghost cheeses, candy corn, pistachios, fresh sage and opal basil, jam syringes and plastic spiders.
Recipe and image by Jessica Lawrenz / @mongermoldandmilk
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