Baked Tacky Mashed Potatoes – Cookies and Cups

My straightforward, baked, Tacky Mashed Potatoes would be the facet dish hit of your dinner or vacation desk. Creamy, wealthy, and excellent to make forward, this mashed potato recipe is all the time requested and everybody’s favourite! 

Be sure to take a look at my Slow Cooker Mashed Potato Recipe too!

Why Are These Tacky Mashed Potatoes Are Our Favourite Aspect Dish?

• A lot taste! These mashed potatoes are unbelievably creamy and flavorful. I eat these as a facet dish and even topped with hen nuggets, corn and a few gravy for a mashed potato bowl!
• Two sorts of cheese! You employ cream cheese within the potatoes together with grated cheddar cheese, plus extra cheddar on high in order that they’re additional tacky! 
• Straightforward to make forward! The wonderful thing about these mashed potatoes are they’re versatile. You can also make them and luxuriate in instantly, however you may as well make them forward and pop them within the oven if you’re able to serve, which is a improbable choice for holidays or entertaining.  

What Sort Of Potatoes Are Greatest For Mashed Potatoes?

• Russet Potatoes. I usually use russet as a result of they all the time produce excellent outcomes! They’re extra starchy and provide the creamiest mashed potatoes. Russet potatoes take in the butter and milk properly making the silkiest texture, and the smoothest mashed potatoes ever.
• The subsequent most suitable choice are Yukon Gold. They’re barely extra waxy (however not as waxy as Pink) and gives you a pleasant taste. You might need just a few extra lumps with gold potatoes, so once I use these, I all the time run them by means of my ricer.
• Keep away from Pink Bliss potatoes when making creamy mashed potatoes, as they’re essentially the most waxy, go away essentially the most lumps, and don’t take in your add-ins as properly. Nevertheless, when you want extra of a “country-style” or rustic mashed potato that has extra lumps, with the pores and skin left on, mashed solely by hand, pink will work.

What Sorts of Cheese Do You Use?

For this tacky mashed potato recipe I exploit a mix of cream cheese and gentle or sharp cheddar cheese. I discover these cheeses soften superbly and provides the potatoes a gentle tacky taste. Should you’re on the lookout for a cheese that can add extra taste strive these:

• Asiago
• Gouda
• Gruyere
• Provolone
• Taleggio
• Parmesan Cheese

OR you’ll be able to mix just a few completely different cheeses to give you your personal mix. However I don’t advocate skipping the cream cheese, as that provides richness and creaminess with out including a ton of taste.

How To Make the Greatest Mashed Potatoes

Discover the total and printable recipe on the backside of this publish!

Peel your potatoes and reduce them up into chunks. I normally quarter the potatoes relying on the scale, Simply make sure that the chunks are the identical dimension in order that they boil evenly! As soon as they’re fork tender drain them rather well!

Place all of your potatoes right into a bowl and mash them up! You should use an electrical hand mixer, a stand mixer, a potato masher, and even use a potato ricer. As soon as they’re all mashed stir in your butter, cream cheese, bitter cream, seasonings, egg, and among the cheddar cheese. The heat of the potatoes will soften the cheeses.

Now you’ll be able to cease there and luxuriate in instantly, OR you’ll be able to unfold the potatoes right into a greased casserole dish and high with extra cheddar cheese and bake! Baking the potatoes will get them tremendous heat and melty, melts that additional cheese on high, and brings all of it collectively! Plus, this technique is nice for making them forward! Sprinkle them with bacon, chives, inexperienced onions, or parsley for taste and presentation!

TIPS

I’ve just a few tricks to share to make sure excellent outcomes each time! 

• I’ve transitioned into utilizing a potato ricer each time I make mashed potatoes. I really feel prefer it produces the silkiest and creamiest outcomes, but it surely completely isn’t vital. Should you do select to make use of a ricer, you have to peel your potatoes. So when you want mashed potatoes with the skins, use a hand masher or a mixer!
• Be sure all of your add-ins are room temp! Utilizing room temperature cream cheese could be very key, as a result of if it’s chilly you’ll find yourself with lumps of cream cheese all through your potatoes. Every part at room temp means the creamiest and smoothest potatoes!
• Use recent grated cheese. I do know it’s tempting to purchase the pre-grated, recent grated melts finest and makes your potatoes easy and silky.

Can You Make These Potatoes Forward?

Completely. That’s the good half about this recipe. You can also make it and serve straight away, OR you can also make it hours forward, and bake earlier than serving. It’s what makes this recipe so nice for holidays and entertaining.

Do You Have To Bake Them?

You don’t! Baking permits the additional cheese on high to soften, whereas giving the flavors an opportunity to mix and meld. However they’re completely fantastic with out being baked!

Can You Freeze Mashed Potatoes?

Yep! Make the potatoes up till the step the place you bake them. Enable them to chill and canopy them with plastic wrap, after which once more with foil. Freeze for as much as 30 days.

To cook dinner from frozen: Enable the potatoes to thaw out within the fridge earlier than baking. After which pull them out of the fridge 20 – half-hour earlier than baking to take the chilliness off.

Identical works for leftovers

Retailer any leftover mashed potatoes in an hermetic container and refrigerate for as much as 5 days or freeze utilizing the steps above.

What Can You Serve These Baked Mashed Potatoes With?

Mashed potatoes are an amazing facet dish and go along with tons of meals from on a regular basis dinners to your  Thanksgiving desk! Listed here are just a few on my website that these pair effectively with:

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