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Cream Cheese Penguins

Just imagine a cute display of penguins, made with black olives, carrots and cream cheese! You can add scarves and hats by using fresh red pepper strips, or canned pimentos cut into different shapes. Use frilly toothpicks if you can.

Submitted by Valerie Cain Cuff

Prep Time: 30 mins

Cook Time:

Total Time: 35 mins

Servings: 18

Ingredients

  • *18 jumbo black olives, pitted
  • *1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
  • *18 small black olives
  • *1 carrot

Directions

Step 1

Create a lengthwise incision from the top to the bottom on one side of every jumbo olive. Carefully place approximately one teaspoon of cream cheese into the gaps within each jumbo olive.

Step 2

Divide a carrot into 18 slices, each 1/4-inch thick; remove a small, wedge-shaped piece from every slice to create feet. Keep the removed carrot scraps; push these bits into the middle of the smaller olives to serve as beaks. If needed, create a tiny cut in each small olive before inserting the beak.

Step 3

Position a jumbo olive, with the larger opening facing downward, onto a carrot slice. Then, place a small olive on top of the jumbo one, aligning it so the beak, the cream cheese chest, and the foot notch in the carrot slice are all in a straight line. Use a toothpick to fasten them together.