Butter Boards are taking the internet by storm. But I’m more a fan of the Cream Cheese Schmear boards variety. These two autumn-flavored harvest cream cheese spreads should be at the top of your menu plan for any fall parties or Thanksgiving feasts.
I recently hosted a bagel bar brunch for a group of moms, and these Harvest Cream Cheese Schmear Spreads were the perfect centerpiece for our fall bagel buffet.
But we also added a fun Harvest punch to the mix that I’ll list below as well; three fall recipes to make over and over!
Pumpkin Bagel Schmear Board
Ingredients
- 1 8 oz tub cinnamon cream cheese
- ¼ cup pumpkin or apple butter
- ½ a granola bar
- Pumpkin pie spice
Instructions
- Spread cream cheese in a pumpkin shape onto a wooden board or platter.
- Swipe the spreader through the cream cheese to make waves.
- Top the cream cheese with pumpkin butter.
- Break off half of the granola bar to make a stem.
- Sprinkle sparingly with pumpkin pie spice (as a dusting).
- Serve with bagels, apples, or vanilla wafers.
Savory Harvest Cream Cheese Schmear
Ingredients
- 1 8 oz tub garlic and chive cream cheese
- ¼ cup dried cranberries or golden raisin blend
- 1 clementine or orange
- 2 tablespoons of honey
Instructions
- Spread the cream cheese in a rectangle or season shape onto a wooden board or platter.
- Sprinkle with dried cranberries.
- Using a microplane, zest 1-2 teaspoons of orange zest.
- Sprinkle across cream cheese.
- Drizzle with honey.
- Serve with bagels, toasted baguette slices or crackers.
Harvest Punch
Ingredients
- 1 gallon apple cider
- 1 2 liter ginger ale
- 1 bag fresh cranberries
- 1 red apple
- 1 green apple
- 1 orange
- Cinnamon sticks star anise, clove pods, optional
Instructions
- In a drink canister or pitcher, combine cider and ginger ale.
- If the flavor is desired, add cinnamon sticks and spice pods, or sprinkle with cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice.
- Stir together with wooden spoon before adding fruit.
- Add cranberries.
- Using a mandoline, slice apples crosswise (across the middle).
- Add to top of pitcher.
- Using a knife, cut orange crosswise and add to pitcher.
- Serve over ice or not if ingredients are chilled.
- You could keep a bowl of fruit near the pitcher to garnish each cup.
Notes
If you are looking for more butter board and fall ideas, check out these recipes:
- Its’ Fall Y’all Snack Mix
- Autumn Schmear Cream Cheese Spread Board
- Candy Bar Cake Bars – great for leftover Halloween candy
- Bagel Butter Board with Cream Cheese Spreads
- Pineapple Au Gratin Casserole – great Thanksgiving side
- Graveyard Pudding Pie
- Stone Soup
- Garlic Herb Cheeseball – easy holiday gathering appetizer
- Slow Cooker Beef Stew
- Stockpile Stew
- Slow Cooker Mexican Chicken Stew
- Rustic Italian Chicken Stew – tastes like my Grandmommy’s chicken soup
- No Nut Snack Mix
- Dollar Store Snacking Tray
- Biscuit Butter Board
- Savory Cream Cheese Spread Board
- Caramel Apple Butter Board
- Caramel Apple Nachos
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