The Tastiest Photo Opp on Your Holiday Table!

Say cheese! This season there’s a new centerpiece that will steal the spotlight on your holiday table.

Introducing a mouth-watering holiday activity that combines everyone’s favourite ingredient with a classic tradition – it’s a Charcuterie Chalet! This crowd-pleaser is a true feast for the palate and the camera!

Made with bricks of Castello’s crunchy Aged Havarti, a roof made of their nutty Vintage Gouda and pepperoni slices, snowbanks of mouth-watering Danish Blue Cheese, hedges of Taste Mexico cream cheese rings and Tre Stelle’s ‘fluffier than freshly fallen snow’ cream cheese to hold it all together – it’s every cheese lovers dream house!

If you’re ready to take on the tastiest new tradition on your holiday table with your friends, here’s how it’s done! (For a full step-by-step video tutorial, visit Instagram @castellocheesecanada).

STEPS:

Step 1 – Prep Your Ingredients

Your Holiday Table: Charcuterie Chalet plus cheese used to build it — Photo Courtesy of Castello Cheese

Ensure all your Castello cheese is well chilled for easier slicing and cut into required shapes for bricks, shingles, windows and bushes. Place your Tre Stelle Original cream cheese into a reusable freezer bag for piping.

Step 2 – The Structure

Your Holiday Table: Charcuterie Chalet cream cheese being piped — Photo Courtesy of Tre Stelle

Slather a good amount of Tre Stelle Cream Cheese evenly onto your structure and smooth it out with a spatula. The cream cheese will hold the ingredients to the house.

Step 3 – The Roof

Your Holiday Table: Charcuterie Chalet Roof being assembled — Photo Courtesy of Castello Cheese

Place the first row of Castello Sliced Gouda shingles evenly on the roof, add the second row so that it slightly overlaps the first row and repeat. Place the halved pepperoni slices on the lower roof one at a time and repeat to the top.

Step 4 – Window and Bricks

Your Holiday Table: Charcuterie Chalet Bricks and Windows being added — Photo Courtesy of Tre Stelle

Prepare your windows by piping four small dots of cream cheese on a whole wheat cracker and attaching four small squares of Castello Herbs & Spices Havarti to each. Place your Castello Havarti bricks starting at the bottom centre, and alternating as you move up to create the traditional brick pattern.

Step 5 – Garland Pillars

Your Holiday Table: Adding Garland to Charcuterie Chalet — Photo Courtesy of Castello Cheese

Pipe a thick line of Tre Stelle Cream Cheese on all four corners of the house and attach a bread stick to each. Pipe thin lines on the breadsticks and add thyme leaves.

Step 6 – Almond Window and Garland Decorations

Your Holiday Table: Charcuterie Chalet Decorating — Photo Courtesy of Castello

Pipe a circle of cream cheese around the window and place almonds evenly. Pipe more cream cheese to resemble snow and decorate as shown. Finish the house by placing half of the Castello Taste Mexico ring under the windows to serve as bushes.

Step 7 – The Finishing Touches

Charcuterie Chalet in front of fireplace — Photo Courtesy of Tre Stelle

Pipe a path for the front door and top with ground candied pecans, then have fun filling the space on the board with all your favourite charcuterie ingredients!