Valentine’s Charcuterie & Cracker Board
with Figgy Ricotta, Chocolate-Dipped Mandarins & Fresh Fruit
- Soy
- Milk
If food is your love language (you know it’s ours!), then let it sing its heart out this Valentine’s Day with a chef-curated snack board—the perfect way to show your special someone(s) how you feel. On the board you’ll set out two types of sweet and savory Craize crackers, a dip of creamy ricotta mixed with crème fraîche and sweet fig jam, nutty Grand Cru cheese, and an irresistibly meaty assortment of coppa, salami, and prosciutto. You’ll dip mandarin orange sections in dark chocolate for the ultimate in complementary flavors and complete the board with crisp sliced apple and juicy grapes for a luscious cornucopia of snacky delights! Nutrition values are representative of a 1/5 bundle serving.
Ingredients
2 unit
Mandarin Orange
1 unit
Granny Smith Apple
4.5 ounce
Red Grapes
6 ounce
Semisweet Chocolate Chips
(Contains: Soy)
8 ounce
Ricotta Cheese
(Contains: Milk)
2 tablespoon
Crème Fraîche
(Contains: Milk)
1 unit
Fig Jam
6 ounce
Grand Cru Cheese
(Contains: Milk)
6 ounce
Antipasto Gran Beretta
1 unit
Craize Guava Toasted Snack Crackers
1 unit
Craize Sweet Corn Toasted Snack Crackers
Not included in your delivery
Salt
Pepper
2 teaspoon
Olive Oil
Nutrition Values
Cooking Steps
Wash and dry produce. Line a large plate with parchment paper. Peel mandarin oranges and separate into segments. Halve, core, and thinly slice apple. Halve grapes if desired.
Place half the chocolate chips in a medium microwave-safe bowl. Microwave until chocolate has melted, 60-90 seconds. Lightly season with salt. Stir until smooth. Dip one end of each mandarin segment in melted chocolate and lay flat on parchment-lined plate. TIP: Leftover melted chocolate? Dip guava crackers and add them to the plate with the mandarins! Refrigerate chocolate-dipped mandarins until ready to serve.
Meanwhile, in a second medium bowl, whisk together ricotta, crème fraîche, 2 tsp olive oil, and a pinch of salt and pepper. In a small bowl, stir together fig jam and 1 tsp water. Transfer creamy ricotta to a serving bowl and spread top out in an even layer. Drizzle with fig jam.
Place bowl with figgy ricotta in center of a large board or platter. Cut Grand Cru cheese into two triangles. Divide Grand Cru, Gran Beretta, grapes, and apple slices around board. Divide Craize Guava toasted snack crackers and Craize Sweet Corn toasted snack crackers into small piles around board. Fill remaining gaps on board with chocolate-dipped mandarins and remaining chocolate chips. Serve.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Dec 2025- Flavor: Many enjoyed the figgy ricotta dip and chocolate-dipped mandarins, though some found the cheese bland.
- Ease of prep: Assembly was straightforward, but melting chocolate in the microwave proved tricky for some.
- Suggestions: Consider adding more fig jam to the ricotta dip for extra flavor. Try dipping guava crackers in leftover chocolate 🍫.
- Portions: Generous servings pleased most, with plenty of ingredients for a satisfying spread.
- Texture: Some found the crackers too hard; softer alternatives might improve the experience.
Reviews from our home cooks
Not a meal, but nice to snack on. Guava crackers and gruyere cheese were very good. Also a nice package of charcuterie meats. The ricotta figgy dip was very bland and needed more fig jam.
This was a big hit, but served with the crostini mostly (from another box), less so the crackers. Cheese and fig jam spread was perfect
Love the theme but the texture of the crackers were more "hard" than crispy. Kind of off putting
Melting the chocolate in the microwave - not so smart - it burned. Also, the crackers were stale. Everything else - very nice.
The cheese dip stuff would be better with more fig sauce and no olive oil
The chocolate for fruit was amazing. Cheese had the perfect combination with chips and meat.
This was a great treat to share over the weekend. The mandarin oranges dipped in chocolate were by favorite. The guava chips were also delicious.
LOVED this - just very sad there was a recall on the meat - i know that is out of your control. Would be happy to order this again.
The cheese tasted like plastic. It was the one thing left on the platter at the end of the night. Would've liked a more flavorful gourmet cheese.
My boyfriend wasn't too crazy about the crackers they were hard to chew otherwise everything else was good 👍 we enjoyed dipping everything in chocolate 🍫
