Having a house party or going to a pot-luck and making your own charcuterie boards? Ditch the regular crackers and assorted cheese on the sides, and make it a cheese canvas instead. This new trend is spiralling on the social media and many have started incorporating this novelty to elevate their dishes. If you haven’t tried the cheese-on-the-canvas yet, it’s time you caught up!
Making a cheese-on-the-canvas isn’t very difficult or time consuming. All you would need is a canvas, food colours (optional) and cream cheese or thick cheese. The first step would be to get your cheese to a cheese spread consistency and ideally stick to any one type of cheese. Once the cheese is malleable enough, spread it on a surface, take a canvas and put butter paper. Do a patch test to see if the consistency holds. If it slips, then make the cheese more compact; and if it stands still, then continue with the current spread.
For a basic canvas, just spread the cheese in a layer on the canvas and enjoy it with crackers or olives. If you want to experiment slightly, then have a decorative image in mind, say a tree with two flowers. Divide the cheese spread in three bowls and add food colours to the spread. Go artsy and make a regular or white cheese background. Then spread a flower stalk which is green in colour. And lastly, sculpt some flower petals in pink, red or yellow. And your floral cheese canvas is ready.
The cheese-on-the-canvas is not just a basic charcuterie upgrade but also a creative DIY in group activities. In fact, many cafes and restaurants are having DIY cheese-on-the-canvas sessions where you can unleash your creativity on the canvas and then eat up the delicious snack. One can also go all out and take the canvas to a park or picnic spot and get down to recreating all that they see around themselves on this eatable canvas.
Home or parties, luxe or pocket pinch, the cheese-on-the-canvas style is definitely winning hearts and space on the gram.
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