Charcuterie Cups for Valentines Day

Looking for some cute charcuterie cups ideas? These are great for Valentines day treats!

Here’s a charcuterie appetizer that will be a hit on Valentine’s Day. Great for celebrating Galentine’s Day too of course, but you can customize these adorable for any special occasion.

This easy charcuterie cup recipe takes just minutes to make and works great for party cup appetizers.

Why You’ll Love These Valentines Charcuterie Cups

Charcuterie cups work great for party appetizers where handheld finger foods in cups are always appreciated.

This charcuterie recipe can be adapted to any type of party, but we’re making these to serve as Galentines Day party food!

Plus, we’re taking it up a notch and serving these in pretty gold rimmed coupe glasses to really give an extra elegant presentation.

Loaded with crackers, cheese, salami roses then topped with some sweet Valentines candy, my girlfriends will love these!

These will go right along with any of these Galentines Day drinks!  We’ve got even more delicious pink cocktails in this other roundup.

Want to see how to make a romantic Valentines charcuterie board for two?

Charcuterie Cup Ingredients:

* Heart Chocolates
* Heart Shaped Marshmallows – you can get them here
* Cheddar cheese and Pepper Jack cheese
* Pepperoni
* Crackers
* Red and Gold Gummy Bears

How to Make Charcuterie in a Cup

Start by filling the bottom of the cup with the red and gold gummy bears.

Add cheese cubes, then place two crackers into each cup. Then, add a chocolate heart as well as a large heart marshmallow to each cup.

Roll the pepperoni into a flower shape and add it to the cup. 

The finished results are these beautiful individual handheld appetizers. I love how classy these look – they will really elevate your food table!

Variations and Substitutions:

There are so many ways to change up these individual charcuterie cups. And it really doesn’t matter what the occasion is, you can switch up ingredients in the appetizer cups to whatever best suits the theme you are going for, such as:

For an outdoor July 4th party appetizer, use paper cups and fill with various meat, different kinds of cheese and red white and blue candy. You can even add mini flags to each paper cup!

Add nuts like pistachios, walnuts, pecans or almonds to fill glasses more and add texture.

Switch out the cheddar for some gouda, mini brie wheels or mini mozzarella balls.

Instead of crackers, you could use mini breadsticks, mini pita chips, salted pretzels or even mini cookies.

Instead of a traditional charcuterie board, make these individual easy charcuterie cups for game day.

Throwing a Thanksgiving party? Use the paper cups, and add these candies instead!

Looking for bridal shower charcuterie cup ideas and bridal party appetizers? Grab some of these bridal shower charcuterie cups – they come in lots of different colors. Add one of these bridal cupcake toppers to each cup!

If you’re hosting baby showers or baby gender reveal party, you could add these adorable skewers to each of the cups!

Serve these as cocktail hours finger foods or summer cocktail party snacks – anytime you’re entertaining a crowd and looking for individual serving food ideas.

 

 

 

Vegetable Substitutions

Want a more veggie heavy option? 

Add vegetables like:

• mini pickles
• small grape tomatoes
• baby carrots

Fruit Substitutions

Use fresh fruit like different berries – they add a great pop of color!

• raspberries
• red grapes
• cranberries
• cherries 
• strawberries
• blackberries 
• or dried apricots