Cream Cheese Penguins

From: LexiGirl 2

On Dec 21, 2008

How cute can you get? Everyone loved them! To make them easy, use whipped cream cheese and put it into a ziplock bag. Make a small snip in the corner of the ziplock bag and you're ready to pipe the cream cheese into each olive. Very easy. Another trick is to make a larger notch in the carrot, take the piece you cut out and cut that in half. Now you have 2 beaks. If your beaks are too thick to put into the olive head, make the beak thinner. For presentation I took a mirror and sprinkled some powdered sugar on it to look like snow. Add the penguins and you have a great centerpiece.

From: ItalianMomof2

On Oct 17, 2008

Thank you so much for posting this wonderful "recipe" or should i say idea? These little guys were the hit of the party and although they were very time consuming to make, it's so worth it! Everyone loved them fromthe kids to adults! Thanks again!

From: Chef Dee

On Mar 26, 2007

This is one of my favourite Zaar recipes. The time it takes to make these little critters is easily balanced by the joy they bring your guests. I added a little garlic powder to the cream cheese to kick up the flavour a notch. To save time, I mixed up the cream cheese the night before to save time. I recommend using a tub of soft cream cheese to more easily stuff the olives. I also cut up the carrots the night before and stored them in the fridge on paper towel in a covered container. I made up the penguins in an assembly line order, all of the feet, then all of the bodies etc. I served them on an invered trifle bowl so they could be closer to eye level. The penguins themselves stood on a round mirror which resembled an ice surface. Thank you for posting Kelly !!

From: karen in tbay

On Mar 30, 2006

I thought I had rated these - awesome - I have a male friend still raving months after xmas about these used as a centerpiece with a sugarcube igloo -finally found the superjumbo size olives which made it much easier to assemble these penguins