Cream Cheese Smoked Salmon Board

Butter board has been streaming across all social media platforms. If you still don’t know what’s a butter board, the simple answer is that it is butter that is spread on a board. But it’s so much more than that! It’s all about serving butter to a large group of people in a new unexpected way. Butter boards may not actually become the next charcuterie boards, but we think they will play a large part in holiday entertaining this year because they are easy to prepare, look festive, have a shock factor associated with them, and only require butter (salted or unsalted) along with any other ingredients available on hand to prepare.

What’s fascinating about butter boards is that they seem over-the-top and elaborate. We are much more accustomed to the butter is in the shape of a stick, ball, or even a flower at a fancy restaurant — anything but a flat mixture spread over the entirety of a board. However, when you grab a piece of bread and swipe some butter onto it, it starts to feel more familiar and comforting. Us, we prefer cream cheese on our bread instead of butter therefore using the concept of butter board we made a Cream Cheese Smoked Salmon Board.

Cream Cheese Smoked Salmon Board

Ingredients

200g of cream cheese

2 slices of smoked salmon

1 red onion (thinly sliced)

1 tsp of capers

garnish (sesame seeds and drills)

Methods

If you are using hard cream cheese. You want to make sure that you’re using softened cream cheese, not cream cheese straight from the fridge. Simply leave it out at room temperature for about 15 minutes, using a spatula fold the cream cheese well to remove clumps.

If you are using soft cream cheese. If you are lucky enough to get soft cream cheese, you can skip the part about leaving it out at room temperature, and move on to using a spatula to remove the clumps.

Once the cream cheese is softened, you’ll use a small knife or spoon to spread the butter as flat as possible onto any decorative board, cutting board, or flat platter you have. We like to create small swirls in the butter because it allows for small crevices that can collect the toppings you’ll add to the cream cheese board.