Pretend you’re in Italy and do pick the olives off this delicious appetizer tree!
Green Olive Tree
- Prep Time 60 min
- Total 4 hr 0 min
- Servings 1
- Ingredients 11
Ingredients
- 5 jars (7 ounces each) pitted queen-size green olives, drained
- 3 cups olive or vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup shredded orange peel
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 1 cup orange marmalade, melted
- 1 cone-shaped florists' foam topiary with dowel and base, 8 inches tall
- Flowerpot to fit topiary base, about 5 inches in diameter
- Rocks to weight flowerpot
- Toothpicks
- Tissue paper
- 2 cups honey-roasted peanuts
Instructions
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Step1Mix olives, oil, orange peel, orange juice and marmalade. Cover and refrigerate 3 to 4 hours to blend flavors.
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Step2Press topiary base securely in flowerpot (glue if necessary). Fill pot 2/3 full with rocks. Insert toothpicks into topiary cone; place olives on toothpicks.
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Step3Line top of pot with tissue paper; cover with peanuts.
Nutrition
65
Calories
6 g
Total Fat
2 g
Protein
2 g
Total Carbohydrate
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 3 Olives and 1/2 Tablespoon peanuts
- Calories
- 65
- Calories from Fat
- 55
- Total Fat
- 6 g
- Saturated Fat
- 1 g
- Cholesterol
- 0mg
- Sodium
- 450 mg
- Potassium
- 50 mg
- Total Carbohydrate
- 2 g
- Dietary Fiber
- 1 g
- Protein
- 2 g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 2%
- 2%
- Iron
- 2%
- 2%
Exchanges:
1 1/2 Fat;Tips from the Betty Crocker Kitchens
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