Charcuterie cups are the fun, fancy little snack you can take anywhere. Plus, you get to use your creativity while designing each delicious masterpiece for Mother's Day or any other special occasion! For an extra touch of class, you can make these beautiful salami roses.
Charcuterie cups are fantastic for casual snacking, whether you're enjoying game night with family or planning baby showers, parties, or events!
With Mother's Day just around the corner, why not treat your mom to a beautiful new teacup set and fill one of them with her favorite snacks?
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😍 Why You'll Love This Recipe
- They make a great grab & go snack for parties, mixers, and get-togethers!
- Making individual cups is more hygienic than a typical charcuterie board, especially when sharing with children.
- This recipe can be prepped in advance.
- You can customize this recipe to best fit you & your guests' tastes.
- Charcuterie cups are great for snacking alone, especially if you're trying to be mindful about portion size.
🔖 Ingredients & Substitutions
- Cheese: I used smoked gouda, colby jack, and mini mozzarella balls, but feel free to get creative! Some other great options would be Havarti, cheddar cheese, pepper jack, gruyere, brie bites, blue cheese, or goat cheese crumbles, etc.
- Meat: Choose from pepperoni, summer sausage, salami, prosciutto, or whatever strikes your fancy.
- Crackers: Sesame crackers are a personal favorite, but pretzels, breadsticks, multigrain crackers, Saltines, Ritz, water crackers, baked pita chips, sourdough discard crackers, or any of your go-tos can be substituted. For a gluten-free option, try these delicious homemade seed crackers!
- Fresh fruit: You can use green or red grapes, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, apple slices, cherries, melon balls, apricots, pears, pineapple chunks, and more!
- Vegetables: Grape tomatoes (or cherry tomatoes) and cucumber slices were used to make mine, but you can also try baby carrots, bell peppers, broccoli, etc.
- Fresh herbs: I like to garnish with a sprig of rosemary and some mint or basil, but sage, parsley, and dill would be great options.
- Nuts: Macadamia nuts, cashews, pistachios, spicy roasted almonds, peanuts, walnuts, etc. Seeds are great too!
- Other items to consider: Green or black olives, mini pickles or cornichons, cocktail onions, chocolate, dried fruits, etc.
🧀 How To Make Charcuterie Cups
Step 1: Build a base at the bottom of the cup of mixed cashews and macadamia nuts (or your favorite nuts).
Step 2: Add crackers and a small bunch of grapes, draping them over the rim.
Step 3: Add cucumber slice, cubed Colby Jack, summer sausage, grape tomato, and cubed smoked gouda to a skewer, then add to the cup.
Step 4: To create a pepperoni rose, line up 4 pepperoni slices so that they are slightly overlapping. Fold them in half from top to bottom, then roll the stack from right to left to assemble the rose. Use a skewer to keep it in place.
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Step 5: Assemble skewer with mozzarella pearls, mint leaves, pepperoni rose, and green olive. Place it in the cup, along with pretzels and a fresh strawberry.
Step 6: Repeat the process until all cups are assembled.
🍇 More Charcuterie Cups Ideas
Why settle for ordinary charcuterie cups when you can have extraordinary ones instead?
Experiment with dried fruits like dehydrated apple chips, pineapple chips, or dehydrated oranges.
Other great additions could include refrigerator dill pickles, Mexican pickled carrots, smoked beef jerky, sourdough discard crackers, and roasted pine nuts.
If you're ready to try more fun charcuterie ideas, check out this guide for making an easy charcuterie board and this gourmet fall charcuterie board. Bookmark this Easter charcuterie board and Halloween charcuterie board for the holidays!
🤷🏻♀️ Recipe FAQs
You can make the cups up to 24 hours in advance. For best results, assemble them within 1-2 hours before serving.
To reduce the risk of harmful bacteria developing, avoid leaving charcuterie cups at room temperature for more than 2 hours.
👩🏻🍳 Pro Tips
- This recipe is for 1 cup, so you can easily multiply it by however many guests you plan to feed!
- You can use mini cookie cutters to cut your meats, cheeses, and veggies into fun shapes!
- Each cup should include a variety of flavors and textures.
- Teacups are a great way to dress up these easy charcuterie cups for small groups, but for larger gatherings, you can use clear plastic cups, paper cups, or these charcuterie cups, which come with skewers.
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📖 Recipe
How To Make Charcuterie Cups
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoon cashews
- 2 tablespoon macadamia nuts
- 2-4 sesame crackers
- 1 small bunch grapes (about 10 grapes)
- 1 cucumber slice
- 1 cube colby jack
- 1 cube summer sausage
- 1 grape tomato
- 1 cube smoked gouda
- 4 pepperoni slices
- 2 mozarella pearls
- 2 mint leaves
- 1 pimento olive
- 4 pretzels
- 1 strawberry
Instructions
- Build a base at the bottom of the cup of mixed cashews and macadamia nuts.
- Add crackers and a small bunch of grapes, draping them over the rim.
- Add cucumber slice, cubed Colby Jack, summer sausage, grape tomato, and cubed smoked gouda to a skewer, then add to cup.
- To create a pepperoni rose, line up 4 pepperoni slices so that they are slightly overlapping. Fold them in half from top to bottom, then roll the stack from right to left to assemble the rose. Use a skewer to keep it in place.
- Assemble skewer with mozzarella pearls, mint leaves, pepperoni rose, and green olive. Place it in the cup, along with pretzels and a fresh strawberry.
- Repeat process until all cups are assembled.
Notes
- This recipe is for 1 cup, so you can easily multiply it by however many guests you plan to feed!
- You can use mini cookie cutters to cut your meats, cheeses, and veggies into fun shapes!
- Each cup should include a variety of flavors and textures.
- Teacups are a great way to dress up these easy charcuterie cups for small groups, but for larger gatherings, you can use clear plastic cups, paper cups, or these charcuterie cups, which come with skewers.
Shala Carter says
These are adorable! I hope someone in my house is going to make these.
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I will print this out for elder son.
Shlama!
Hilda Sterner says
Yes, you deserve one for sure! 😍