Halloween Decorations - Icky Bugs

Water Bugs

Ingredients: Makes 5 Bugs

• 5 Kalamata olives
• 30 long fresh rosemary leaves
  

• 10 short fresh rosemary leaves

• These have just enough zippy flavor that you might stick out your tongue and hope for more. For each bug, roll 6 rosemary leaves between your fingers so they have a long, rounded shape.
  
  
• Pierce the olive with a toothpick in 3 places on each side for legs. Insert 1 rosemary leaf into each hole.
  
  
• Insert 2 short rosemary leaves in front for the antennae.

Roaches

Ingredients: Makes 5 Roaches

• 4 teaspoons cream cheese, softened, plus more for attaching legs and head
  
• 1 T. chopped walnuts

• 5 pitted dates
• 3 dried cherries

• These roaches are sweet, crunchy and curiously chewy. To create your
  own, stir together cream cheese and walnuts.
  
  
• Cut 1 cherry in half and cut 6 thin legs from 1 half; use the other half to cut 5 roach heads.
  
  
• Cut 12 thin legs from each of the 2 remaining cherries.
  
  
• For each roach, pipe the cream cheese mixture into the hole at one end of the date. Attach the head and legs to each roach using more cream cheese.