{"id":45553,"date":"2018-11-30T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.freshdirect.com\/?p=45553"},"modified":"2026-04-15T12:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:51:27","slug":"christmas-appetizer-cheese-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/christmas-appetizer-cheese-plate\/","title":{"rendered":"Create a Christmas Tree Cheese Platter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t need a lot of Christmas creativity to make the easiest festive appetizer platter ever. Yes\u2014ever! Swap out red for green grapes and pepper jack cheese for your other favorite, and you&#8217;ve got a unique platter. It&#8217;s pretty, it&#8217;s easy, and it&#8217;s full of cheese. What more could you want?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>What You&#8217;ll Need:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/browse.jsp?pageType=browse&amp;id=grp&amp;pageSize=30&amp;all=false&amp;activePage=1&amp;sortBy=Sort_ExpertRatingHigh&amp;orderAsc=true&amp;activeTab=product\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grapes<\/a>, red or green<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/browse.jsp?pageType=browse&amp;id=dlich&amp;pageSize=30&amp;all=true&amp;activePage=1&amp;sortBy=Sort_PopularityUp&amp;orderAsc=true&amp;activeTab=product\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cheese<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/browse.jsp?pageType=browse&amp;id=ctr&amp;pageSize=30&amp;all=true&amp;activePage=1&amp;sortBy=Sort_ExpertRatingHigh&amp;orderAsc=true&amp;activeTab=product\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oranges<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/browse.jsp?pageType=browse&amp;id=pan_crackers&amp;pageSize=30&amp;all=true&amp;activePage=1&amp;sortBy=Sort_CustomerFavoritesFirst&amp;orderAsc=true&amp;activeTab=product\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crackers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What to Do:<\/strong><br \/>\nSlice\u00a0your favorite cheese\u2014we used pepper jack\u2014into cubes. (If you aren&#8217;t into the whole cutting cheese thing (we aren&#8217;t), then buy the cheese pre-cubed. Good news: We do that for you!) Peel and segment an\u00a0orange\u2014we used a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/pdp.jsp?productId=fru_dmy_30677&amp;catId=orng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">satsuma tangerine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Arrange the grapes, orange slices, and cheese cubes into a pyramid shape. For the &#8220;trunk&#8221; of the tree, use crackers.<\/p>\n<p>Pair with other holiday appetizers or place this out for Santa! We think he&#8217;s ready for some cheese and crackers. Save the cookies for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t need a lot of Christmas creativity to make the easiest festive appetizer platter ever. Yes\u2014ever! Swap out red for green grapes and pepper jack cheese for your other favorite, and you&#8217;ve got a unique platter. It&#8217;s pretty, it&#8217;s easy, and it&#8217;s full of cheese. What more could you want?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69275,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2739,1621,1601,3241,2732],"tags":[1431,2847,1981],"class_list":["post-45553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appetizers-recipes-2","category-easy-diy","category-easy-entertaining","category-holidays","category-recipes","tag-christmas","tag-easy-diy","tag-easy-recipes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71045,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45553\/revisions\/71045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}