Penguin Appetizers

I mentioned the fabulous New Years Eve party that we went too! Our friends cleared out their house and hung disco balls, they had a karaoke machine, and blasted dance music! Each person brought an appetizer! It was fabulous. We brought a chocolate fountain and these little penguins. They were a hit! And I just loved all the attention they got!

Want to make some of your own? They are super easy, and well worth it. To make two cans worth of olives it took me about an hour. (keep in mind I have to sit and work slow because I'm not feeling so great.)

Grab yourself a carrot stick. Cut it into slices. 

Take a knife and carefully cut out a little v shape from each carrot slice.

Now take an olive and place one of the small triangle pieces into the whole in the olive.

Then take another olive. With that olive carefully cut out a small section in the front. You can discard the front section, or call in your boys, they will devour them!

Take some cream cheese and stuff it inside your olive.

Then take a toothpick. Place the toothpick in the top of the olive that you have put the small carrot piece into. Put it in from the top to the bottom.

And then slide it through the olive that you stuffed with cream cheese.

Then slide it carefully into the carrot slice, turning it so the v-cut out is in the front.

I placed all my penguins around my tea-cup and saucer display that I had previously made. I took the top of the teacup and filled it with the remainder of cream cheese. I had wanted to use a white cheese ball and form it into an igloo for the top, but we couldn't find a white cheese ball, and I just wasn't up to making one. So this was a great option.

I then poured salsa over the top. Nothing is better than salsa and cream cheese on crackers. Really. It's delicious.

On the second row I filled it with wheat thins.

And there I had it! A fun and easy and creative appetizer for a Christmas/Winter get together!

Go on give it a try and let me know what you think! I only had one left on the plate when the night was over! And had multiple comments on how "cool" they were from both kids, adults, men and women!