Penguin Treats

Hi Friends!  Here's a perfect little recipe/craft for a frigid arctic-like day!  My amazing friend Beth made these little guys for her daughter's first birthday party, and they were so sweet (and tasty)!  Check out the recipe she used from allrecipes.com  Not too difficult, and ingredients you may just have on hand in your pantry.  Have fun!

Original recipe makes 18 penguins.

INGREDIENTS:

 - 18 jumbo black olives, pitted

 - 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened

 - 18 small black olives

 - 1 carrot

 

DIRECTIONS:

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.
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.

Have a crafty day!
Your friends at Fiddle & Frog