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How to Make Cheese Platter Appetizers

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How to make Cheese Platter Appetizers. During the holiday season this board of cheeses and biscuits with fruits and wine is easily made.

How to make Cheese Platter Appetizers

At cocktail parties, a good, balanced cheese plate can help guests enjoy drinks, circulate, and develop new tastes.

While many appetizers require serious preparation. A cheese plate is not only classic but offers the familiar, the not-so-familiar, and the unique to your guests. Follow these directions to knock it out of the park in recipe below.

What cheeses to serve at a party.

The key to a cheese plate is (no surprise here) the cheese. This is the heart of the experience, and while almost everyone loves cheese, it’s important to pick a variety, so you’re sure to please a large crowd.

Start with a slice of hard cheese, like Parmesan, Manchego, or another variety. Then add a soft cheese, like a brie or a spreadable cheese, that can be served with a knife.

Finally, try adding one or two more with unique flavors. Try a smoked cheese, a bleu cheese, or a fragrant cheese with honey or lavender incorporated. Making sure you have a variety of flavors and textures to please every palate.

It’s important to consider the texture of your cheese when you consider how to serve them. When dealing with a slice of soft cheese, serve it with a cheese knife so that guests can spread it on a cracker or piece of fruit. With hard cheeses, slice them into cracker-friendly pieces for easy serving. When in doubt, slicing is crowd-friendly since guests don’t want to hack into a wedge of cheese while everyone’s waiting to get a bite.

Match with crackers and snacks get the recipe for cheese straws.—-> Easy Cheese Straws Recipe

What should go on a cheese platter.

It’s traditional to serve cheese with crackers, and that’s usually a safe move. Try water crackers with sharp cheddar, or pair hearty whole-wheat crackers with smoked cheese for a heavier bite. If you have more than one kind of cheese, you should also offer more than one kind of cracker, but let people experiment in mixing them all up. You can also offer another crunchy snack, like Chex Mix or Gardetto’s, too, to incorporate a new flavor and an easy finger food.

Complement by adding another layer.

Offering some different flavors, like sweet grapes or strawberries. Salty pistachios or cashews. Chocolates, try several kinds of chocolates, or even a sour candy.

What wines to choose with the different cheeses.

Depending on what you’re drinking. Wine pairs well with fruits, nuts, and chocolate.

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A crisp white wine or a light red wine such as Pinot Noir would be a great match. A Chardonnay that isn’t too oaky.  Firm and aged cheeses, like gouda or havarti need  brown ale or a slightly sweeter white wine.

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How to make Cheese Platter Appetizers. During the holiday season this board of cheeses and biscuits with fruits and wine is easily made.

  • Author: FillMyRecipeBook
  • Prep Time: 30 min
  • Total Time: 30 min

Ingredients

Hard cheese.  Parmesan, Manchego, or any other variety.

Soft cheese.  A Brie or a spreadable cheese. (with a knife)

Two more with unique flavors. Try a smoked cheese, a bleu cheese, or a fragrant cheese with honey or lavender.

Water crackers with sharp cheddar.

Pair hearty whole-wheat crackers with smoked cheese for a heavier bite.

Sweet Fruit, grapes or strawberrie.

Chocolates.  Sour Candy.

Salty Pistachios or Cashews.

Wines. Crisp white wine or a light red wine. To suite your pallet and cheeses supplied.

Instructions

When obtaining your cheese plate cheeses make sure you are pleasing various tastes for all different people. As well as some different types of crackers.

Slice cheeses thinly to place on crackers. Maybe some can be cut into squares for tasting.

Place different crackers between different cheeses or the ones that go together. (as per Taste)

The sweet fruits are placed between the cheeses and crackers or in a bowl.

Sweet chocolates that are broken up in bite pieces can be placed around the board or in bowls as well. Don’t forget the sour candy for different peoples taste pallet.

Make sure the different crackers and snacks are place evenly and all around the board for people to obtain them easily. The knife must be by the cream cheese spread. 

Plates and serviettes must be very accessible. 

Wines to use could be a crisp white wine or a light red wine. Firmed and aged cheeses like Gouda and Havarti need brown ale or a slightly sweeter wine. It all depends what snacks are provided.  

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