Charcuterie Carrots
Charcuterie and cheese stuffed into an edible buttery and flaky crescent roll is exactly what you need to make for your Spring and Easter get togethers! A fully edible hand help appetizer that levels up your classic charcuterie board 🧀🥕
The great thing about Easter hosting, is that you can bring family and friends together to share in laughs, bites and sips. Making these hand held appetizers perfect, so guests can grab one and hold it in one hand and nibble with the other as they chat around with loved ones. The crescent roll carrot cones holds all your cheese, charcuterie & accompaniments perfectly- you can add in whatever you’d like but this is truly an appetizer that will be loved by both adults and kids!
Ingredients for Charcuterie Carrots
This appetizer requires minimal ingredients and you can add in anything you’d like. Serve them on a tray and add in some parsley or dill to make them look like REAL carrots. Here’s a list of ingredients that I used to make mine:
Crescent rolls
Egg
Blueberries
Salami
Gouda cheese
Havarti cheese
Grapes
Fresh parsley or dill
When creating the edible carrots, make sure you start adding on your dough strips to the smallest part of the foil cone first and then work your way to the top. The strips do not need to be perfect- when it bakes it comes out looking great every time!
Do not substitute the crescent roll dough with puff pastry for this recipe. I tried to use puff pastry for one of my trial runs of this and the nests did not hold up well in the oven and broke. Puff pastry also isn’t as flavorful as crescent roll dough is.
TIP: make sure you spray your foil cones WELL with olive oil spay to ensure that the crescent roll dough doesn’t stick to the foil while it bakes. If you spray enough oil then the foil should wiggle right out of the cone after they cool down a bit after baking. DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP!
I LOVE using Roth Creamy Havarti & Gouda for these! They are always crowd pleasers for kids and adults. You can find Roth cheese at a grocery store near you.
SHOP THE REICPE
This is what your crescent roll carrots should look like before going into the oven!
This is what they will look like after baking- golden brown!
Charcuterie Carrots
Charcuterie and cheese stuffed into an edible buttery and flaky crescent roll is exactly what you need to make for your Spring and Easter get togethers! A fully edible hand help appetizer that levels up your classic charcuterie board.
Ingredients
- Foil
- 2 packages of crescent roll dough
- 1 egg (egg wash)
- 6 oz Havarti cheese
- 6 oz Gouda cheese
- 6 oz Salami
- Grapes
- Blueberries
- Fresh parsley or dill (garnish)
Instructions
- First, heat your oven to 375F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper
- Cut a square piece of foil (mine were around 7" x 7", yours can be bigger or smaller if you'd like) and roll them into a cone shape to mimic a carrot shape (Mine were long at the end so I crumpled the extra foil into a ball at the top- see picture below.
- Roll out your crescent roll dough and fold any cuts in it to become one big sheet of dough
- Using a knife or pizza cutter, cut the crescent dough into strips that are about ¾ of an inch wide
- Spray olive oil on the outside of your foil carrot cones as this will prevent the dough from sticking. *do NOT skip this step* very important so that the dough doesn't stick to the foil while it bakes
- Add dough strips to the outside of each foil ball starting from the middle of the foil ball to the bottom (I added around 2-2 1/2 strips per cone). These don't have to go on perfectly, add the strips on from the pointy end of the cone to the wider part
- Place each carrot cone on the baking sheet
- Brush on egg wash on each cone so it gets golden while baking
- Bake for 15-20 min or until golden brown
- While they bake, cut your cheeses, fold charcuterie and add onto skewers
- Let cool for 5 min and THEN wiggle the foil out carefully (I wiggle the foil out back and forth a few times then gently pull out)
- Add in your cheese & charcuterie items to each carrot cone. Start with your smallest items being the blueberries and then add in your bigger items
- Put on a serving tray and enjoy!
Notes
Make sure you add on olive oil spray to each foil ball before adding on your strips of crescent roll dough
This is what my foil carrot cones look like- the top part I had extra foil so I just crumpled it into a ball, as the cone part is what really matters for the shape
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Charcuterie and cheese stuffed into an edible buttery and flaky crescent roll is exactly what you need to make for your Spring and Easter get togethers! A fully edible hand help appetizer that levels up your classic charcuterie board.