Please don't eat me; I'm just a cute widdle penguin
Help! As you can see, I'm a penguin made of black olives, cream cheese, and carrot. I'm wearing a cucumber scarf. You might think that I'm sad because my body parts are secured with toothpicks. But I'm sad because my brothers are missing.
A woman made us for a birthday party. But it's not my birthday, nor is it any of my brothers'. She didn't even make us a cheese igloo or a saran wrap frozen ocean! At least she had the decency to attach mozzarella ice floes to our feet. (Mine is not shown, but you can see them in the picture below.)
But before we knew what was happening, she separated a bunch of my brothers and crammed them unceremoniously into a plastic container and drove away with them. I never saw them again.
I fear that my brothers may be lost. Here is a picture of them at a "sister-in-law's" house (their last-known whereabouts):
A woman made us for a birthday party. But it's not my birthday, nor is it any of my brothers'. She didn't even make us a cheese igloo or a saran wrap frozen ocean! At least she had the decency to attach mozzarella ice floes to our feet. (Mine is not shown, but you can see them in the picture below.)
But before we knew what was happening, she separated a bunch of my brothers and crammed them unceremoniously into a plastic container and drove away with them. I never saw them again.
I fear that my brothers may be lost. Here is a picture of them at a "sister-in-law's" house (their last-known whereabouts):
Grammar Matters
Cooking Monkey
To make the penguins, you'll need black olives (one smaller size for the head, one larger size for the body), carrots, toothpicks, cream cheese (any kind), and any other items for extras like scarves. I used garlic cream cheese as the filling, but I imagine any STURDY light-coloured dip might work.
Chop a peeled carrot and make a V cut into the discs. The small triangular part will be the beaks and the larger pac-man shape will be the feet. (Refer to the pic.)
Stick the smaller beak pieces into the ends of the smaller olives.
Make vertical slit into a large olive, and spoon cheese into it, enough to make it plump.
Cut mozza (or other light-coloured cheese) to make ice floes. I found that I really needed them to make the penguins stable.
Assemble the penguins! Keep refrigerated til serving time. They sat at the appetizers table for a bit and they were fine.