Penguins

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 4 hard-boiled eggs
• 2 fat carrots
• 4 long toothpicks
• 4 short toothpicks (or regular size)
• 1 (6 ounce) can jumbo pitted black olives

Recipe

• 1 hard boil as many eggs as you would like penguins.
• 2 clean a "fat" carrot (first removing the green) and cut about an inch off the carrot from the top.
• 3 cut a notch (upside-down v,) in front and in back of the carrot . your carrot now looks like penguin feet.
• 4 after your eggs have cooled, peel the shell off.
• 5 take a long toothpick and put it into the center of the "feet".
• 6 slip the cooled hard boiled egg onto the toothpick, wide side down.
• 7 slip a short toothpick, through the egg. about half way up the egg.
• 8 cut a "beak" from a leftover piece of carrot
• 9 make a small nick in the middle of a jumbo pitted black olive and push the carrot (beak) into the olive.
• 10 place the olive on top of the toothpick, sticking out of the body, he now has a head!
• 11 get another black pitted olive and cut it in half.
• 12 place each half onto the "arms" of the short toothpick, penguin flippers!
• 13 they look great in the middle of a plate of deviled eggs.
• 14 no two penguins look alike and everyone loves them.
• 15 get creative, give them a scarf or cut the beak so that it's open".
• 16 (safety note) watch the toothpicks around kids, they will want to eat the penguins.
• 17 (second safety note) watch the adults too.