This Spring Charcuterie Board with lemon poppy seed muffins and brownie bites is such a cute and fun snack idea! This grazing platter is perfect for kids after school snack or a baby shower.
Combine the cake mix, yogurt, applesauce and poppy seeds until combined. Spray the molds with nonstick spray. Fill them ⅔ full and bake the mini muffins for 15 minutes and the large spheres for 20-25 minutes, until a tooth pick comes out clean.
Allow to cool completely.
In a small bowl, whisk the glaze ingredients together. Add more water if you want a thinner glaze. Use less water if you want a thick glaze.
Make the Brownie Bites:
Make brownies according to the box instructions. I chose to make them more cake-like than fudgy.
Place the batter in a greased mini sphere mold to make little mud balls. Bake for 10 minutes or until a tooth pick comes out clean.
[Alternate method: You can also make a pan of brownies (cook according to the box directions) and use a melon baller to create mud balls.]
Blanch the Asparagus:
Bring water to a rapid boil. If your asparagus is thin then boil for 2 minutes. If it is thicker than boil for 3 minutes.
Quickly transfer it to an ice bath of cold water and ice cubes till completely cooled. Dry the stalks on a paper towel and cut them to desired length.
Assemble the Charcuterie Board:
First, lay the "dirt" using the dessert hummus. Spread it out on the bottom of the board.
Wash and cut the celery to the desired length and place them on the dirt as the stalk of the flower.
Next, add the lemon poppy seed muffin as the head of the flower.
Prepare the flower "petals." Wash and dry some raspberries for the first flower. For the second flower, take an apple slice and cute out stars with a vegetable cutter. Soak the cut apple slices in lemon juice to keep them from browning. Pat them dry and place them on the board. For the third flower, use mandarin oranges and pat them dry on a paper towel. Place them around the muffins.
Arrange your snow peas as "leaves" on the flower stalks.
Add asparagus as grass.
Using a flower shaped vegetable cutter, cut cheese into additional flowers.
Slice your cucumber and add them along the dirt line.
Add your gummy worms and brownie mud balls to the “dirt” dessert hummus.
Cut and wash florets of cauliflower and add them as clouds and place the classic hummus in a small bowl as the “sun”.
Serve mini muffins, M&Ms, and any additional food items in other dishes with the board.