How to style your festive cheeseboards

Vary your varieties 

If you want to serve a few different cheeses, choose a mixture of soft varieties, such as Boursin^® Garlic & Herbs, harder options, and blue ones, such as Boursin^® Blue Cheese Flavour. Alternatively, you could take inspiration from Boursin^®’s boards and make one cheese the star of the show.

Pick your pairings

Contrasting flavours and textures are essential to any cheeseboard, so you’ll want to find the right balance of sweet, savoury, soft and crunchy components. For example, a tangy blue cheese works wonderfully with juicy red grapes, while a creamy soft cheese tastes delicious with crunchy pecans or a punchy caramelised onion chutney.

Create a colour palette

To really wow your guests, try marrying up the colours and flavours of your cheeseboard to create a unique theme. Boursin^®’s Ultimate Umami board, for instance, features the earthy tones and tastes of thinly sliced beef, roasted mushrooms and Boursin^® Truffle, while the Green Goddess board has a green, plant-based palette, with pesto, vibrant veggies and Boursin^® Plant-Based Garlic & Herbs.

Master the art of arranging

It’s best to spread your cheeses out first, leaving plenty of space for complementary ingredients around each one. Then, you’ll want to roll or fold any meats and position them in clusters between the cheeses, before filling any gaps with little pots of chutney and handfuls of fruit, nuts or olives to create a perfectly packed board.