Deviled Mice
- 8 large eggs
- 4 1/2 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 6 large lettuce leaves
- 16 each pimento stuffed green olives stuffed
- 1 tablespoon chocolate sprinkles
- Gently place the eggs in a saucepan and fill it with water until the eggs are just covered.
- Bring the water to a boil over high heat.
- Turn the heat down to medium and allow to simmer for 10 minutes.
- Remove the pan from the heat and carefully drain off the oht water into the sink.
- Cover the eggs with cold water and set aside for five minutes.
- Gently crack the eggs against a hard surface, then carefully peel off the shells.
- Slice each egg in half lengthwise.
- With clean fingers, scoop out the yolks and put them in a small bowl.
- Mash the yolks with a fork until they are crumbly.
- Add mayonnaise and blend.
- Crefully fill the empty egg whites with yolk mixture.
- Cover a platter with lettuce leaves, setting a leaf or two aside for garnish.
- Arrange the egg halves, YOLK SIDE DOWN, on the leaves.
- These are your mice bodies.
- To give them each eyes and a mose, pull the pimento out of an olive and cut it into three smal With an adults help, cut thirty two thin, lengthwise strips from several of the green olives.
- Stick two of these strips end to end onto the back end of the mouse to form the tail.
- Out of the remaining olives, cut thirty two small triangular ear pieces.
- You To garnish: Tear small pieces of lettuce and position in front of the mice's mouths as if they have been noshing.
- As a final touch, heap a pile of mouse droppings (chocolate sprinkles) on the platter to re-create an authentically tidy mouse toilette.
eggs, mayonnaise, lettuce leaves, chocolate sprinkles
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/deviled-mice-40688 (may not work)