RECIPE # 4292 - CONFETTI SANDWICHES - Wednesday, April 1, 2009 - NewsChannel5.com | Nashville News, Weather & Sports

ANN COX EASTES / KROGER

6 hard-cooked eggs, chopped

1 (8-oz) pkg neufchatel cheese, softened

1 (7-oz) jar pimento stuffed olives, drained (reserve 14 whole olives and 1 tablespoon olive juice)

14 slices wheat sandwich bread, crusts trimmed

Slice olives in half.  Combine in a large bowl chopped eggs, cheese, sliced olives and olive juice.  Mix completely. Cut each slice of bread in half.  Spread 1/4 cup of filling on 7 bread slices and top with remaining slices.  Insert toothpick in top of each sandwich with whole pimento-stuffed olive.   Yield:  14 party sandwiches.

**May make breakfast or lunch sandwiches by leaving the crusts on bread slices and adding thinly sliced ham or crisp cooked bacon.