These little guys are what is left of a herd of them Marg and I made for Thanksgiving Dinner appetizers. With the leftover cream cheese, Marg seasoned it up a bit and made an igloo out of it on a plate. Then we put around 2 dozen of these guys around the igloo.
Large or jumbo olives for the body.
Small olives for the heads.
Cream cheese for the stuffed shirt.
Slim carrots for making feet and beaks.
Toothpicks.
Cut the peeled carrots into 1/4 ” rounds. Cut a wedge out for the feet. Cut said wedge into several beaks…. Smoosh some softened and beat up cream cheese into the openings you cut out of the jumbo olives. Top with small olive. Center on a carrot/ foot base and ram that toothpick all the way down through the little critter–don’t worry-he likes it. Carefully get a small sliver of carrot right in the face center and you’re done. Some get strips of pimento peppers (or sundried tomatoes in oil) and fashion scarves around their necks.
Oh, gosh — they’re adorable. I would never have guessed that they were little veg-heads!!