Cream Cheese Penguins

Name: Cream Cheese Penguins
Prep time: 35 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 18
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 18 smalls black olives; 1 carrot; 227 grams package cream cheese, softened; 18 jumbos black olives, pitted

You can never have too many hor d'oeuvre recipes, so give Cream Cheese Penguins a try. One portion of this dish contains around 1g of protein, 6g of fat, and a total of 56 calories. This recipe serves 18. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free, primal, fodmap friendly, and vegetarian diet. If you have olives, carrot, jumbo olives, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 35 minutes.

Instructions

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.

Ingredients you will need

Cream Cheese

Carrot

Olives

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.

Ingredients you will need

Cream Cheese

Carrot

Olives

Equipment you will use

Toothpicks