Name: Easter Candy Dessert Board
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Ingredients: 2 cups mini chocolate eggs; 2 cups jelly beans; 2 cups sour jelly beans; 2 packages bunny peeps; 1 package chick peeps; 2 edible bird's nests; 12 macarons; 1 cup hershey kisses; 16 chocolate Easter eggs; 24 Spring-themed cookies

Making grazing boards for holidays is an easy way to add a little fun to the day's menu, especially when they're charcuterie boards full of candy! Our Easter Candy Dessert Board takes about 15 minutes, or however long it takes you to arrange the goodies. There is no cooking and no baking (unless you want to!), just lots of sweet treats to unpack.

While this board is meant for kids, adults will enjoy it too. Just add some macarons and Cadbury caramel eggs and everyone will be enjoying a much-deserved sugar rush. You can see a detailed tutorial on how to easily make kid-friendly charcuterie boards here.

We love fun Easter desserts and treats along with our board. Bunny paw sugar cookies, chocolate covered strawberry carrots and Easter egg hunt pudding cups are our favorites.

Table Of Contents

What You'll Need
What To Buy For A Dessert Board
How To Make It
Recipe
Recipe Reviews

What You'll Need

You can make your candy dessert board with any of your favorite Easter treats. Here is what I use:

Candy bird nests
Peep chicks
Peep bunnies
Traditional jelly beans
Starburst sour jelly beans
Spring colored hershey kisses
Macarons (I find these at in the frozen dessert section)
Easter chocolate coins
Chocolate mini eggs
Spring cookies
Mini Easter cheesecakes (that I had already made as a separate dessert)

child helping to arrange a candy board for Easter

What To Buy For A Dessert Board

To make any charcuterie board you'll need the following:

Charcuterie board: any size or shape depending on the occasion and your preference
Small bowls: I get mine from Target, Home Goods or Amazon
Bunny or egg shaped bowls to add to the theme

If you don't have a charcuterie board, a large cutting board or serving plate will do just fine!

How To Make It

The best way to make a charcuterie board is to arrange bowls, plates, and cups first, on opposite locations. Then add the bigger items, followed by candies or treats that need special arranging. Then add fill-in candies, or treats that you can drop onto the board in handfuls.

Here are the steps I take to make this Easter candy charcuterie board in just about 15 minutes.

Arrange the bowls on opposite corners and fill them with small loose candies. I chose 2 types of jelly beans and chocolate eggs.
Then place the larger items. In this case those are the candy bird's nests, cookies, macarons and peeps. Add a chick and eggs to the bird's nests. I also added a few mini Easter cheesecakes, because I was already serving those as a separate dessert and putting a few on the board added to it's cuteness!
Fill in the gaps with smaller treats. These include more peeps, more chocolate eggs, chocolate coins, and hershey kisses.

Then serve and enjoy!

one side of a Easter charcuterie board full of candy

Make sure to check out our turkey-shaped snack board for Thanksgiving, snowman hot chocolate board and kid-friendly fruit board for Christmas and a red, white and blue board for summer!

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