Cindy's Deviled Mice

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 8 eggs
• 1/4 cup mayonnaise
• 2 teaspoons prepared mustard
• 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
• 6 large lettuce leaves
• 16 pimento stuffed olives
• 1 tablespoon chocolate sprinkles

Recipe

• 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.