Thanksgiving Turkey Cheese Board

Thanksgiving Turkey Cheese Board is quite elaborate and will truly amaze your guests.

Active time: 55 min | Yield: 6 to 8 servings

Ingredients

• Widmer’s One Year Cheddar cheese, thinly sliced
• Arena SpringGreen™ Gouda cheese or Arena SpringGreen™ Smoked Gouda cheese, thinly sliced
• Cedar Grove Havarti cheese, thinly sliced
• Red Anjou pear
• Thinly sliced prosciutto
• Thinly sliced bresaola sausage or prosciutto
• Mini cucumbers, halved lengthwise
• Sweet mini bell peppers, stems removed, halved lengthwise and seeded
• Pita crackers
• Pitted green olives
• Dried apricots
• Fresh sage leaves
• Black peppercorns
• Seedless purple or red grapes

Instructions

1. Cut the Cheddar, gouda and havarti into triangles. Set aside two gouda slices.
2. Place pear on a serving board. Arrange prosciutto around pear.
3. Fill in board with cheddar, bresaola, cucumbers, gouda, havarti, bell peppers and crackers.
4. Tuck in olives, dried apricots and sage.
5. Cut reserved gouda slices into eyes, beak and feet.
6. Attach peppercorns for pupils.
7. Place eyes and beak on pear; arrange feet.
8. Garnish board with grapes, prosciutto flowers and sage.

Attribution

Recipe and photo used with permission from: Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin