Create a pretty dessert board for all of your holiday parties with this no-bake candy and cookie board. Filled with chocolate, cookies, candy and more it is sure to be a crowd favorite.
Are you looking for a Christmas dessert to impress your guests then this candy and cookie board is it! Easy and delicious, this board is full of candy, chocolate, and cookies with Christmas flair.
Today I am joining 11 friends in a Charcuterie Board Blog Hop!
If you are hopping over from my friend Kylies’ blog post, Welcome! I am sure you are drooling after reading her post about cheesy pull apart bread. I know I am. I cannot wait to make Kylie @Trumas Treasures easy and delicious pull apart bread over the holidays. I know that my guests will love it!
Now on to my Christmas Cookie and Candy Board.
Christmas Cookie & Candy Dessert Board
Christmas desserts are some of my very favorite things to make for parties and to take to family and friends. Snowball cookies, chocolate almond dragees, and chocolate bark with sea salt are just a few of the things on my list this year.
I love sweet treats and whether I am hosting or attending I always make sure to have plenty of sweet treats for the guests.
Over the next few weeks many of us will be hosting, or attending holiday parties and an easy dessert that we can whip together is always a good thing.
Normally, I bake all of the cookies and candies I serve using a mix of family favorites and a few new recipes.
Lately though, I have received a few emails from people telling me they don’t bake, don’t know how to bake or don’t like to bake so I thought I would make a dessert that anyone can make.
I settled on a candy and cookie board, the best part is that it is no-bake and is as easy as gathering your favorite sweet treats and assembling them on a tray.
All of the treats on this board came from Lidl, Aldi, Walmart, Target, the Dollar Tree and my local market. You can find most of the candy and cookie in the seasonal aisle but you can also check out the bakery too, just in case you wanted to add decorated sugar cookies, mini cupcakes or even decorated brownies.
Holiday Candy & Cookie Board
Ingredients
Cookies an assortment of cookies, including but not limited to:
- sugar cookies
- chocolate gingerbread
- stollen bites
- almond crescent cookies
- biscotti
- chocolate chip cookies
- chocolate covered wafer cookies
Candy
- mini peanut butter cups
- foil covered chocolate snowmen
- red gum balls
- cinnamon candy
- Star brites
- Red Bird soft candy puffs
- red and green m&m
- red licorice
Directions
Get a large tray or cutting board, and a few small bowls or paper liners.
Add the bowls to the tray and fill them with the smaller candy like the M&M’s, gum balls and red hots. This adds visual interest and contains the smaller items.
Next, add the larger cookies to the tray, like biscotti or the long wafer cookies. You may have to play around with this a little to get it to look the way that you like. You can also cluster the cookies together or line them along the edge of the tray.
Once you have the cookies on the tray add the candy. Sometimes I unwrap some of the candy and other times if it is foil wrapped I leave it. The foil adds color and design to the tray.
There is no right or wrong way to make this tray, get creative and it will look beautiful and taste delicious because it is made with all of your holiday favorites.
This tray can also be made with homemade treats and candy or a combination of homemade and purchased treats. However you choose to make it I am sure that your guests will love it.
Where to Serve a Christmas Candy & Cookie Board
- You can serve this tray at your party
- take one to a friend
- to your kids school
- have a candy and cookie champagne party with your friends while wrapping gifts
- At your holiday movie marathon
- Serve one on Christmas day
Make sure to get a few cellophane bags so that you can bag up the leftovers for your guests to take home.
Doesn’t this look like an easy and delicious treat? I am taking one of these to a party that we are going to in a few weeks, I will let you know how they liked it.
Next up on our blog hop is my friend Tammy of White Lilac Farmhouse and she created a board after my own heart, a hot chocolate charcuterie board! Perfect for kids and grandkids after a long day playing in the snow or out skating.
UNTIL TOMORROW
Take care and thank you for spending part of your day with me. I hope that you enjoyed the candy and cookie board.
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That is too beautiful to eat! Wow, that took quite an effort to make it so perfect I'd bet. But then you have that knack with food.
Brenda
Your photos are beautiful and this is the kind of thing you can have in the cupboard, ready to pull out if somebody comes over. And it looks so impressive!
Another thing I like at this moment when people might "drop by" is to have logs of sugar cookie dough in the freezer. It takes 2 minutes to cut it into rounds and bake, and there is nothing as cozy as smelling warm cookies!!! A little sugar sprinkled on top is enough decoration.
A very good idea!
What a beautiful cookie board. It looks too pretty to eat.
Thank you Tammy! I loved you hot cocoa board.
Thank you Tammy! Have a wonderful weekend.
Oh Elizabeth what a great way to serve all these Christmas cookies!
Oh I love all the festive Christmas cookies.this is a great idea and I’ve pinned. So many creative ideas.
Thank you Rachel!
Your charcuterie board is super cute! I love it. Hugs to you.
Thank you Renae. I hope that you are having a fabulous week.
You’v given me inspiration for what I can add to my Christmas table this year! Thank you.
Than you Rachel, I think your son would love it!
What a great way to finish off a meal. I love the added Christmas touches but also love that any type of cookie and chocolate would work for this board. Thanks for sharing Elizabeth.
Thank you Aniat, it is an easy a delicious treat.
Elizabeth – beautiful as usual. You make everything look so yummy and inviting. I’m on board with the theme of buy and plate for my board this year too. Happy Hopping with you!
Thank you Regina. I think the great thing about this board, is that you can use what you have. If you have homemade cookies use them, love store-bought add those too. And we always have christmas candy, homemade and from the store. Have a wonderful weekend.
Elizabeth, your dessert and candy tray came out so good. I love the assortment you have used and cant wait to try this myself.
Thank you Wendy for inviting me to join you on the blog hop! I loved your Christmas morning breakfast tray!
Wow! I have a big sweet tooth so this is right up my alley. Yum. Pinned!
Thank you Jen!
Elizabeth … your board is so pretty and festive. Makes me wish my holiday to-do’s were done and I could sit back with a holiday movie and dive into all these goodies. So much fun! xo
My favorite type of charcuterie board…one filled with sweets! I’ll definitely be making one for Christmas!
Thank you! I enjoyed yours too!
What a beautiful charcuterie cookie board! Great to hop with you.