Are you looking for veggie tray inspiration for Christmas this year?
Honestly, one of, if not the best thing about festive periods is the food, there’s really nothing that gets us more excited than festive foods.
The preparation of it can be difficult this is true, however it is worth all the stress and planning.
Christmas veggie tray is suddenly at the top of our list of festive foods for the year, not only are they healthy, look beautiful, and taste great, they would also immediately put you in the festive mood.
And unlike some festive foods, veggie trays are actually easy to put together, while also being healthy meals that would bring the whole party together.
We have gone out our way to create this guide of some of the best Christmas veggie trays we could find, so let’s take a look at them shall we.
Christmas Veggie Trays
1. Broccoli Christmas Tree Veggie Tray
A veggie tray that brings the Christmas spirit everywhere it’s made.
It has an arrangement designed like a Christmas tree, the tree is made of broccoli florets, and it’s decorated with small cherry tomatoes, a yellow star-shaped vegetable is placed at the top, baby carrots, sugar snap peas, celery sticks, and cauliflower florets are arranged around the tree.
2. Red & White Caprese Salad Veggie Tray
This is a type of Italian salad that is arranged in a circular shape made to look like a wreath, the red and white color brings the Christmas color and vibe to the tray.
It’s made up of cherry tomatoes, basil leaves, and mozzarella, and a bowl of balsamic glaze at the middle of the tray.
A delicious Christmas appetizer for salad lovers.
3. Christmas-Themed Charcuterie Board
Normally, a charcuterie board isn’t a typical veggie tray, but it serves as a solid option for those who want a more meat based tray.
It shows a Christmas tree arrangement made with pretzel sticks, fresh rosemary sprigs, assorted cheeses, cured meats, olives, blackberries and raspberries.
4. Santa Veggie Tray
For a festive Christmas veggie tray, it really doesn’t get better than this.
The tray features a Santa hat made from cherry tomatoes and mozzarella pearls, the face is made from a white bean dip, the beard is made of cauliflower florets, while baby carrots, broccoli, and green and black olives are set around the Santa’s face.
5. Snowman Veggie Tray
The tasty dip of this veggie tray is what creates the stylish Christmas theme.
This is a snowman made out of three bowls of ranch dressing dip, black olives for the mouth and baby carrots for the nose, with red bell pepper for the scarf and black olives for the buttons, while broccoli, cherry tomatoes, bell peppers, and cucumber surround the snowman.
6. Christmas Wreath Veggie Tray
Creating a wreath style veggie tray is genius, the style has been around for a while, but it’s still amazing to see always.
We have a wealth made of snap peas, sliced cucumbers, and broccoli florets, cherry tomatoes make up the decorative berries, red bell peppers are styled to look like a bow, and at the center of the tray sits a bowl of ranch dressing.
7. Guacamole & Salsa Dip Veggie Tray
Having a veggie tray with no specific decoration can also work for Christmas, after all it’s how tasty the veggies are that truly matters.
The tray features two dips, guacamole and salsa, with lots of veggies like broccoli, carrots, green beans, bell peppers, celery, cucumber, cauliflower and cherry tomatoes.
8. Multiple Dips Veggie Tray
Create a fully stacked veggie tray that houses not only different vegetables, but also different dips as well.
The tray has lot’s of fresh veggies like carrots, broccoli, cucumber, radishes, celery, bell pepper, and different type of cauliflower, and then different types of ranch dips.
9. Red & Green Holiday Veggie Tray
The red and green color of the vegetables incorporate the holiday colors of Christmas nicely.
This tray has three ranch dips arranged stylishly in the middle, while vegetables like snap peas, cauliflower, bell peppers, cherry tomatoes, and cucumber.
10. Christmas Veggie Platter
Easy Christmas tree-themed vegetable tray.
This tray has a tree that’s made up of broccoli florets, a garland of yellow bell pepper strips, and ornaments of red cherry tomatoes.
It also has baby carrots and snow peas arranged around a bowl of dip at the bottom, the yellow star at the top is made from yellow bell pepper.
11. Celery Christmas Tree Veggie Tray
There is almost no end to the ways you can create a Christmas tree veggie tray.
This one features an arrangement of celery and green beans, with garlands of sliced carrots, and ornaments made of cherry tomatoes, and cucumber, while cauliflower florets decorate the base in form of snow.
12. Santa Dip Veggie Tray
Now this is a beautiful way to incorporate the dip into the veggie tray’s decoration.
The dip at the middle of the tray forms the Santa’s face, cauliflower florets make up the beard, cherry tomatoes and cauliflower florets make up the hat, while carrots, celery, broccoli and black olives sit around the Santa.
13. Standing Christmas Tree Veggie Tray
While the other Christmas tree-themed veggie tray have all featured the trees flat on the tray, this one has it stand like an actual tree.
This is a tree constructed out of broccoli, cauliflower florets, cherry tomatoes, cubed cheese, a star shaped piece of cheese at the top, and lots of carrots surrounding the tree at the base.
14. Crudité Veggie Tray
Typically known as the crudité platter, a classic French appetizer, it can serve as a simple Christmas veggie tray despite the lack of Christmas décor.
The central dip is styled with large red bell pepper, and surrounded by carrots, cucumber, broccoli, cherry tomatoes, and cauliflower florets.
15. X-Shaped Veggie Tray
A veggie tray that stylishly creates an X-like shape, X for Xmas which is another name for Christmas.
This tray features cherry tomatoes at the middle, sliced cucumbers on both sides, celery, yellow bell pepper strips, and red bell pepper strips form the hands of the X, baby carrots and cauliflower florets complete the veggies on the tray.
16. Holiday Veggie Tray Wreath
The wreath style is done around the central ranch dip, with vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower florets, celery, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, yellow and white cheese stars all around the wreath and a small checkered bow all surrounding the dip.
17. Grinch Veggie Tray
You’ve not had a complete Christmas celebration if there’s no Grinch-themed décor involved.
This tray features the Grinch face made of broccoli and Romanesco broccoli florets, the hat is made of red bell pepper and cauliflower florets, while black olives, red pepper, and lemon slices make the eyes, eyebrows and mouth, heart-shaped radish at the bottom represent the heart.
18. Gingerbread Veggie Chalet Tray
Nothing really tops this veggie chalet tray, and unlike the other trays on the list, this one is a bit difficult to put together.
This tray shows a house made from carrots and white spread dip, the roof is made from cucumber and celery, yellow bell pepper star, and cherry tomatoes on top, the door is red bell pepper, and pathway cucumber slices, and two snowmen made from mozzarella balls, black olives and carrots.
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Conclusion
When hosting a festive party like that of Christmas, it’s very important that you have things out that guests can snack on, and what’s better than healthy veggie tray meals that everyone can enjoy as the celebration goes on.
Parents would even appreciate the fact that their kids can eat as much healthy snacks as they want without getting worried, all before the main meal of course, so no one ends up waiting on an empty stomach.
What else is left to say, with our list of Christmas veggie trays, you can now prepare as much healthy snacks and appetizers for everyone while you prepare the main course.
Cheers to a wonderful Christmas celebration.
