These St. Patrick’s Day Charcuterie Board Ideas Will Make You Want to Kiss The Host (2024)

If you’re going to indulge in green beer for St. Patrick’s Day, you’re going to need plenty of food to offset the booze. Enter the St. Patrick’s Day charcuterie boards. These thematic snack trays, while typically made with a bunch of meat, can also be full of cheese, fruit, veggies, nuts, and more.

What we love about the internet — among other things — is the creativity that foodies have. People on Instagram have created some of the most beautiful St. Patrick’s day charcuterie boards with shamrock shapes, green cheese (it may smell, but it tastes amazing), candy, and even rainbows made of salami.

If you’re gearing up for your St. Patrick’s Day bash and need party-planning ideas, let this be your guide. There are more shamrocks than your leprechaun-loving heart will know what to do with.

16 St. Patrick’s Day Charcuterie Board Ideas

1. All Green, All the Time

This board is more of a cheese, veggie, and fruit sitch, but you don’t really want green meat anyway, you know? Instead, find all green produce and a cheese with a green rind or tint. The smellier the better.

2. Candy Board

Is this charcuterie? No. Is it better? Obviously. Who doesn’t want a St. Patrick’s Day-themed candy board in their lives? Find every green and gold candy at the grocery store and slap it on a tray in a pretty pattern.

3. Rainbow Board

If you’ve got kids at home, this is an easy St. Patrick’s Day plate you can put together with them. Or, you know, with your sister who still acts like she’s twelve.

It’s another candy-themed board with no meat in sight, so it’s perfect for a vegetarian or dairy-free home. Bless your hearts.

4. Hidden Shamrocks

Some people are just way more clever than us. OK, to be fair, most people are. But we wouldn’t have thought to take green peppers and shape them into shamrocks, and yet, that’s exactly what we have here. Marshmallows also become a shamrock, and candies become a rainbow.

Meanwhile, we see food and we just think, “lunch.”

5. Hidden Gold Coins

Tuck a few gold coins into your St. Patrick’s Day charcuterie boards for added sparkle and a tasty finish. Just ask your local leprechaun if it’s OK before you take them from him.

6. Fancy Shmancy Cheese

If you’re charcuterie-ing at elite level, you can make your brie into this elaborate shamrock-shaped addition.

We haven’t done it ourselves, but it seems easy enough. Yes, we’re usually this delusionally optimistic.

7. Keep It Simple

If you’re feeling lazy, just make your charcuterie plate in a shamrock-shaped dish. You can throw whatever is inside your fridge on the plate and it still counts as festive.

Even your one-legged dog could put this together. Just make sure he washes his paws before touching the food. Germs and all.

8. Cutout Shamrocks

Another way to incorporate the shape of the Irish is by cutting your cheese into shamrock shapes. And only cut your cheese in that way. Please?

9. Sweet, Sweet Dessert Board

While this board looks like a headache, stomach ache, and a sugar coma all combined into one, we’re not particularly mad about it.

Let your inner child loose with this dessert board. Just maybe don’t eat it all at once. You’re not *that* lucky.

10. Irish Flag Flair

You can also give a nice hat tip to Ireland with a few Irish flags in your charcuterie board. Putting the flags on toothpicks will allow them do double duty as decor and utensils, and we love that.

Plus, you can use them to pick your teeth when you’re done. Triple duty. Mighty little toothpicks!

11. Bring In the Guinness

No St. Patrick’s Day is complete without Guinness. If you can find Guinness cheese, use it for your charcuterie board.

And in a sandwich, and as a snack, and for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

12. Luck of the Irish

Cute little cauldrons make the perfect bowls for things like olives or jam on your charcuterie board.

It’s thematic, and you can keep from making a mess. No one wants olives touching the fruit. No one.

13. Kiss Us, We’re Irish

If you have too much time on your hands, this charcuterie board is for you. Using cookie cutters to cut out cheese letters will keep you busy for a bit. Using a knife will keep you busy until next St. Patrick’s Day. So, consult your social calendar and then decide.

You can then arrange them artfully with all your other decorative meats. Honestly, this one may be too pretty to eat. JK, we’re eating it.

14. A Pot of Gold on the Side

Your charcuterie board can get cluttered quickly — and no one wants that. Keep your clutter to your attic and garage, thanks.

Like this charcuterie board, you can bump one of your elements off to the side to let it shine, like it should. Because it’s gold. Duh.

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15. Add a Twist

There’s something about adding a pretzel to a St. Patrick’s Day charcuterie board that just feels right. Truthfully, adding pretzels to everything feels right.

They’re a universal treat that operate as a snack, dessert, main dish, side dish, hangover remedy, or even a doorstop when stale.

16. Add a Pop of Orange

Let’s not forget that the Irish flag also includes orange, so bring that into your St. Patrick’s Day charcuterie board.

That means carrots, orange cheese, orange slices, orange marmalade, orange candies, and your orange cat. Just don’t let it get too close.