Cream Cheese Penguins

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.

Ingredients

Original recipe yields 18 servings

The ingredient list now reflects the servings specified

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

Time Details

PREP :

COOK : 5 mins

TOTAL : 35 mins

SERVING : 18

YIELD : 18 penguins

Step 1

Cut a slit from top to bottom, lengthwise, into the side of each jumbo olive. Carefully insert about 1 teaspoon of cream cheese into each olive. Slice the carrot into eighteen 1/4 inch thick rounds; cut a small notch out of each carrot slice to form feet. Save the cut out piece and press into center of small olive to form the beak. If necessary cut a small slit into each olive before inserting the beak.

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Step 2

Set a big olive, large hole side down, onto a carrot slice. Then, set a small olive onto the large olive, adjusting so that the beak, cream cheese chest and notch in the carrot slice line up. Secure with a toothpick.

Per Serving: 57 calories; protein 1g; carbohydrates 1.2g; fat 5.5g; cholesterol 13.7mg; sodium 104.2mg.