Cindy's Deviled Mice

Linda's Busy Kitchen's Note:

Let these cute lil meeces adorn your next Halloween Party! Let the kids help make them with you. They get a kick out of making their own little mice!

• Total Time: 55 mins
• Prep Time: 30 mins
• Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 16 mice

• 8 eggs
• ¼ cup mayonnaise
• 2 teaspoons prepared mustard
• ½ teaspoon onion powder
• 6 large lettuce leaves
• 16 pimento stuffed olives
• 1 tablespoon chocolate sprinkles

Directions:

1. Hard boil the eggs.
2. Gently crack the eggs against a hard surface, then carefully peel off the shells.
3. Slice each egg in half lengthwise. Scoop out the yolks, and put them in a small bowl.
4. Mash the yolks with a fork until they are crumbly.
5. Add mayonnaise and blend.
6. Carefully fill the empty egg whites with yolk mixture.
7. Cover a platter with lettuce leaves, setting a leaf or two aside for garnish.
8. Arrange the egg halves, yolk side down, on the leaves. These are your mice.
9. bodies.
10. To give them each eyes and a nose, pull the pimento out of an olive and cut it into 3 small pieces.
11. Cut 32 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.
12. Out of the remaining olives, cut 32 small triangular ear pieces.
13. To Garnish.
14. Tear small pieces of lettuce and position in front of the mice's mouths.
15. As a final touch, heap a pile of mouse droppings (chocolate sprinkles) on the platter to re-create an authentically tidy mouse toilette.

Reviews

[JuJuBeJen]

I made these cute little mice along with the recipe for Spooky Eyeballs, and they were both a huge hit among my party guests. They were so cute, everyone loved them. I will definately be making these again next year. Thank you Linda for posting this here on Zaar!