California Olive Reindeer

  • Total
    5 Minutes

Ingredients

    • 2- 4
      Won ton wrappers
    • Cooking spray
    • 2
      Sandwich-sized reclosable plastic bags
    • 4 ounces
      (120 g) cream cheese
    • Scissors
    • 8
      colossal California Black Ripe Olives
    • 8
      large California Black Ripe Olives
    • 1
      bamboo skewer
    • 16
      pretzel sticks
    • Paring knife
    • Tiny pieces of carrot and raisins
    • Powdered sugar, optional
    • Kale, optional
    • Mushrooms, optional

Instructions

    1. With a small, sharp knife, cut wonton wrappers into “antlers.” Place on a baking sheet and coat with cooking spray. Bake for 3 to 5 minutes at 350 °F (175 °C) or until lightly browned.

    2. Place cream cheese into two sandwich-sized reclosable bags. Snip 1/8-inch (3 mm) off the corner of one and 1/16-inch (1.5 mm) off the second. With the bag and the 1/8-inch/3 mm hole, squeeze cream cheese into colossal olives.

    3. Using a bamboo skewer, make a hole in the large olives.

    4. Break a pretzel stick in half and press into hole and into colossal olive. Press together to form the head.

    5. Make four holes in the colossal olive with a bamboo skewer and push four broken pretzel sticks in to form legs.
    6. Squeeze cream cheese with the small-hole to form eyes.

    7. Make tiny slits with a paring knife in the top of the head and insert wonton antlers.

    8. Make a hole in the large olive (head) and insert a small sliver of carrot for the nose.

    9. Use a small piece of raisin to create pupils.

    10. To create a winter setting, dust kale leaves with powdered sugar and snip the tops off mushrooms to simulate large boulders.