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olive penguins appetizer

(1 rating)
Recipe by
Carol Perricone
Massapequa Park, NY

I found this recipe in a magazine and forgot about it. I discovered it again in my recipe file, and decided to make it. They are so cute. My photos

(1 rating)
yield 18 penguins (or more as you wish)
prep time 30 Min
method No-Cook or Other

Ingredients For olive penguins appetizer

  • 18
    jumbo black olives, pitted
  • 18
    small black olives
  • 1 pkg
    (8 oz) cream cheese, softened
  • carrots

How To Make olive penguins appetizer

  • 1
    Cut a slit from top to bottom into one side of jumbo olive. Carefully insert 1 tsp. cream cheese into olive.
  • 2
    Cut carrots into 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 beak. If necessary cut a small slit in olive before inserting the beak.
  • 3
    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.
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