I love hot chocolate and this Hot Chocolate Charcuterie Board is not only beautiful and sure to be a hit! Homemade hot chocolate has never been better then when you enjoy it with this hot cocoa Charcuterie board piled high with hot chocolate toppings.

Hot Chocolate Charcuterie Board

I love hot chocolate. My whole house loves hot chocolate. We also have been loving Charcuterie Boards so it only made sense that we would make a hot chocolate Charcuterie Board.

Making a hot cocoa Charcuterie Board is a great way to serve the toppings for hot chocolate and they are sooo beautiful. I may have stood in my kitchen admiring this how chocolate board after I put it all together because it was so beautiful.

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What Hot Chocolate do you use for a Cocoa Board?

Before serving the hot chocolate with the toppings board you will want to have hot chocolate ready to go ahead of time. There are lots of different hot chocolate variations that you can make to go with these hot chocolate toppings.

You can use store bought hot chocolate or homemade hot chocolate, we prefer to use homemade. If you are looking for hot chocolate recipes check these out.

What goes on a Hot Chocolate Charcuterie Board?

Just about any thing you can think of that you would want to add to a cup of hot chocolate, you can be as creative as you want to with your Hot Cocoa Charcuterie Board, which is one of the best things about making them!

Marshmallows

Marshmallows are a must for adding to hot chocolate, we used peppermint mini marshmallows and large marshmallows ours but you can totally change things up and use different flavored marshmallows, different colored marshmallows and different shaped marshmallows. If you are making a Christmas hot chocolate board those green Christmas tree marshmallows would be amazing.

Chocolate

You can use whatever chocolate you love but I love having white chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips, white chocolate chunks, and dark chocolate chunks as our chocolate add ons.

Flavor Add ins

Adding extra flavor is always fun when having hot chocolate, caramel and fudge are our go tos. You can also use ground cinnamon or cinnamon sticks. Homemade caramel sauce is amazing, if you have never made homemade caramel sauce, you gotta try it, it is so easy to make!

Candy

Candy is a great addition to putting in your hot chocolate or on top of the whipped cream on your hot chocolate, we like to use Andes mints, mini peppermint patties, Hershey kisses, caramels, crushed peppermint and candy canes. You can also add Reese’s pieces, your favorite chocolate bars, or peanut butter cups if you want to.

During the Christmas months I also like to add candy canes to our list of cocoa board candy choices.

I love using cookie sticks as our stirrers for hot chocolate. Then once they have soaked in the hot chocolate they are a tasty treat!

Whipped Cream

When enjoying hot chocolate whipped cream is a must. You can use homemade whipped cream or store bought whipped cream. The different flavored whipped cream is also perfect for hot cocoa boards.

Hot chocolate combinations

You have all of these tasty hot chocolate toppings to use and they make for amazing flavor combinations. Here are some of our favorites:

Peppermint Hot Chocolate. Add crushed peppermints, whipped cream and a candy cane.

Peppermint Mocha Hot Chocolate. Add crushed peppermints, chocolate chunks, whipped cream and a candy cane.

Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate. Add Caramels and caramel sauce, a pinch of salt, and top with whipped cream, then drizzle more caramel sauce.

Caramel Hot Chocolate. Add Caramels and caramel sauce, and top with whipped cream, then drizzle more caramel sauce.

Andes Mint Hot Chocolate. Add Andes mints into the hot chocolate and mix, then top with whipped cream and chocolate syrup or chocolate fudge.

Cinnamon Hot Chocolate. Add a cinnamon stick or ground cinnamon and top with whipped cream.

Peanut butter hot chocolate. Mix in a spoonful of peanut butter, top with whipped cream.

Peanut Butter cup hot chocolate. Mix in a spoonful of peanut butter, chocolate chunks, top with whipped cream and drizzle chocolate fudge and peanut butter on top.

Hot Chocolate board Ingredients

1 cup crushed peppermint
6 cups hot chocolate we prefer made with homemade hot chocolate mix
1 cup caramel sauce
1 cup mini peppermint patties
1 cup Hershey kisses
10 hazelnut cookie sticks
1/4 cup chocolate chips
1 cup peppermint mini marshmallows
2 cups large marshmallows
1 cup Andes mints
5 cinnamon sticks
1 cup soft caramels
1 cup white chocolate chips
8 candy canes
1/2 cup white chocolate chunks
1/4 cup dark chocolate chunks

How to Make Hot Chocolate Charcuterie Board

If you are making this hot chocolate board for your family then I would put the hot cocoa mugs on the board. If you are making it for a party or a large group of paper I would leave them off the board and use paper cups for everyone to make their own custom hot chocolate.

Fill a small glass jar with crushed peppermint. Chop the chocolate if you are using bars. You can also unwrap the candies if you want to.

Place a small glass jar filled with the crushed peppermint on the bottom right side of the board leaving about 2 inches from the corner.

Place two mugs on the board filled with hot chocolate, one on the bottom right corner and one towards the middle of the top.

Add a small container of the caramel sauce to the bottom left corner.

Place the peppermint patties just above the caramel container.

Place the kisses on the top right corner.

Add the cookies to the top left corner.

Place the peppermint marshmallows right beneath the cookies.

Fill in the spot next to the cookies with the chocolate chips.

Add the large marshmallows next to the kisses.

Place the andes mints next to the caramel sauce.

Place the cinnamon sticks next to the mints.

Fill in the hole next to the marsmellows with the caramels.

Add in the white chocolate chips next to the cookies.

Place the candy canes next to the kisses.

Fill in the hole next to the cinnamon and crush peppermint with the two chocolate chunks.

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