Best Olive Penguins Appetizer Recipes

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OLIVE PENGUINS APPETIZER



Olive Penguins Appetizer image

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

Provided by Carol Perricone

Categories     Other Snacks

Time 30m

Number Of Ingredients 4

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

Steps:

  • 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.

OLIVE PENGUINS CREAM CHEESE APPETIZER



OLIVE PENGUINS CREAM CHEESE APPETIZER image

Categories     Condiment/Spread     Olive     Appetizer     No-Cook     New Year's Eve

Yield 18

Number Of Ingredients 4

18 Jumbo black olives
1 (8 os.) package cream cheese, softened
18 small black olives
1-2 carrots, cut for rounds for feet,

Steps:

  • Cut a slit from top to bottom, lengthwise into side of each jumbo and small olive. Carefully insert about 1 teaspoon of rolled up cream cheese into each olive. Slightly smaller balls for the smaller olives. 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 to press in the center of small olive to form thhe beak. If necessary, cut a small slit into each olive before ilnserting the beak. Set a large 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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