Recipe: Halloween Meatloaf Mice

HALLOWEEN MEATLOAF MICE

FOR THE EARS AND TAILS:
carrots
FOR THE MICE BODIES:
6 oz ground beef
6 oz ground turkey
2/3 cup oats
1 onion; chopped fine
1/2 cup catsup
2 egg whites, beaten
salt and pepper (to taste)
FOR THE GARNISH:
spaghetti noodles, uncooked
raisins
spaghetti sauce (to serve)

TO MAKE THE EARS AND TAILS:
First cut 2 coins per mice out of the carrots for ears. Then make long thin strips out of the remaining carrots for the tails, one for each mouse. Steam until they are crisp tender. DON'T OVERCOOK!! Set aside.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Mix together the ingredients for the mice bodies and shape into 4 little mice shaped loaves on baking sheet. Make them shaped to a point in the front and rounded in the back.

Bake for 45 minutes or until desired doneness.

In the top of each baked meatloaf cut little slits for the ears about 1/3 from the pointed end. Place the carrot coins in the slits for the ears. Make a tiny slit in the rounded wide end for the tail and place one of the carrot strips in the slit for the tail. Use the raisins for the eyes. Break the uncooked spaghetti noodles into pieces and place around the "nose" (pointed end) for whiskers.

Heat the spaghetti sauce. Place a large spoonful of sauce on a plate. Place a meatloaf mouse on top of the spaghetti sauce to serve.

Servings: 4
Adapted from source: Cindy Rowzee