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The best Easter bunny craft ideas are the ones you can eat! This Easter cheese board will be the cutest addition to your holiday feast–serve it as an adorable appetizer or make it the centerpiece. It features a brie Easter bunny, lemon and goat cheese “flowers”, cheddar “carrots”, fresh berries, and butterfly-shaped crackers. It doesn’t get much Spring-ier! 

Making holiday-themed charcuterie boards has become a staple around here, and brie is my favorite way to bring characters to life! Plus, brie is always a crowd-pleaser. I have a skeleton for Halloween, Santa for Christmas, and now a bunny for Easter!

For more egg-cellent ideas, try my Easter Candy Dessert Board, Easter Cheese Board in a Basket, Easter Carrot Cake Cupcakes, Veggie and Goat Cheese Board, and English Muffin Breakfast Board.

Easter Cheese Board Recipe

As with all of my recipes, I want you to make this bunny board your own! Feel free to swap in different ingredients and flavors, like orange curd instead of lemon, gouda or colby jack slices instead of cheddar, camembert instead of brie, flavored goat cheese (honey would be delish!)–you get the idea!

Ingredients

• 3 (13-ounce) brie wheels
• 2 mini brie bites
• 3 pink candy almonds
• 2 black M&M’s
• 5 Raincoast Crisp crackers (flavor of your choosing)
• 2 ounces goat cheese
• 1 ounce lemon curd
• 1 celery stalk
• 3 cheddar slices
• 5 parsley leaves
• 20 butterfly crackers
• 12 ounces blueberries
• 2 ounces blackberries

Directions

• Cut two bunny ear-shaped pieces off the sides of one brie wheel.  
• Place two whole brie wheels at the bottom and in the center of the board to create the head and body of the bunny (they should be touching). Add the two ear-shaped cutouts above the center brie wheel.
• Place brie bites on the center brie wheel (head) to create the cheeks, then add a pink candy almond, horizontally, above them to create the nose. Place the two M&M’s towards the center of the same wheel to create the eyes. Place the remaining pink almonds vertically on the ears.
• Form 1 teaspoon-size balls of goat cheese and chill in the fridge for 30 minutes. Place one chilled goat cheese onto each Raincoast Crisp cracker, then gently press with your thumb to create the flower shape with a well in the center. Carefully spoon the lemon curd into each thumbprint.
• Cut 5 very thin slices of celery from the stalk and place on the bottom of the board to create flower stems, then place the flower crackers at the top of each stem.
• Cut the cheddar slices into 5 carrot shapes. Arrange the cheddar carrots along the bottom of the board between the celery “stems.” Garnish each cheddar carrot with parsley leaves to create the carrot greens.
• Place butterfly crackers along the top edge of the top, layering them to fit.
• Scatter the blueberries on the top half of the board to create the sky and nestle in the blackberries, being sure to space them out evenly. Enjoy!

Pro tip: Make this board a kid-friendly Easter craft! Start by doing all the slicing, then once the knife work is done, pull up a step stool and put those little hands to work assembling this creative board. It’s edible art (and a whole lot less messy than dying eggs)!

How to Make Lemon & Goat Cheese Bites

Make these adorable Spring-themed flower crackers whenever you want a snack! The savory goat cheese paired with the bright, zesty lemon and semi-sweet, crispy crackers will be a staple all year round. 

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Note: This recipe makes more than the 5 we used for this board.

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Easter Cheese Board Substitutions

Here are some ideas for ingredient swaps to suit your dietary needs:

Dairy-free:

• Make your bunny with Rebel Cheese’s vegan brie or The Uncreamery’s cashew-based brie (Note: these are only 5 ounce wheels and will make a smaller bunny!)
• Use non-dairy goat cheese for the flowers, like Treeline’s Vegan Goat-Style Cashew Cheese 
• Good Planet Foods Sharp Cheddar Style Slices or Follow Your Heart Dairy-Free Medium Cheddar Style Slices make great non-dairy carrots!

Nut-free:

• Skip the almonds and opt for pink strawberry yogurt covered raisins, pink jelly beans, pink M&M’s, or really any pink, ideally oval, substitute you can dream of!

Gluten-free:

• Make your “flowers” with these Maine Crisp Buckwheat Crackers or Mary’s Gone Crackers

Brie Easter Bunny Video Tutorial

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Easter Candy Additions

For something sweet, pair this board with my Peeps S’more Bark or  Easter Candy Dessert Board. Alternatively, add (or swap on) some of your favorite Easter sweets to this board:

• Carrot gummies or marzipan
• Gummy flowers
• Peeps
• Chocolate eggs
• Dove Caramel & Milk Chocolate Flowers
• Annie’s Bunny Grahams
• Easter cookies

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Easter Beverages

Here are some of my Spring-time faves:

Alcoholic

• Bloody Mary’s (try my Bloody Mary Bar!)
• Prosecco or sparkling wine 
• Whiskey Sour (there’s egg white in here!)
• Easter Mimosas
• Peeptinis or Cadbury Creme Martinis (for the Easter candy lovers!)

Non-alcoholic

• Lemonade
• Iced tea
• Curious No. 9 Nonalcoholic Sparkling Rosé Cocktail
• Easter Brunch Punch

Show Me Your Easter Cheese Boards 

I hope this post inspires you to make this Easter bunny charcuterie. Nothing makes me hoppier than seeing the snacks and apps you create from my tips. If you make something inspired by this post, please tag me at @ainttooproudtomeg so I can see and share! 

And, If you liked this recipe, please rate and review.