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Make Ahead Loaded Mashed Potatoes
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These Make Ahead Mashed Potatoes are one of my most favorite recipes ever. Cheese, bacon, potatoes – I mean seriously, how can you go wrong? You can’t.
Make ahead foods are very close, dear friends of mine. When those make-ahead foods involve potatoes, cheese, & bacon – I’m all over it! The only thing is though, the rest of my family is all over ’em too. Even the baby!
These are so good that I have dreams about them. I always make extra too, cus mashed ‘taters for breakfast is the best.
Make Ahead Loaded Mashed Potatoes
Ingredients
- 3 pounds potatoes peeled & cubed
- 1 stick of butter
- 1 cup of milk
- 10 oz Italian Cheese & Herbs Cooking Creme or 8oz cream cheese, softened & double the spices
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 tbsp garlic powder
- 1 tbsp onion powder
- salt & pepper to taste
- 12 oz-16oz of bacon cooked to a crisp – broken into small pieces
- 2 cups sharp shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 bunch green onions diced
Instructions
- Cook the potatoes in a pot of boiling water until fork tender. Drain.
- Beat the potatoes with the butter, milk, cooking creme (or cream cheese), sour cream, & spices until creamy.
- Scoop the potatoes into a baking dish, and spread evenly. Sprinkle with the cheese, bacon, & green onions.
- Cover & refrigerate up to 36 hours. Set it on the counter about 30 minutes prior to baking. When you are ready to eat, bake uncovered at 350 for 40 minutes.
I love Make Ahead Mashed Potatoes. And these look so fantastic!
Yum-o!! Talk about comfort food!! That looks delish!
OH Momma!!! That looks so delicious!!! I MUST follow you! 🙂
This looks delicious!!! I will have to make these soon! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
We LOVE mashed potatoes in my family and these look amazing. Thanks so much for linking to Saturday Swap!!
oh.my.gosh. these potatoes look INSANE!!!! *must have now!!* you can bet i’ll be making these this week, for sure!
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Uuummm! OK…YUMM! If i could just get my spoon through the computer screen!!! Uuug!
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I just stumbled onto this and OH MY GOSH! Its 10 in the morning and I am about to make them, I can’t wait for dinner 🙂
Woohooo!!! Let me know how they turned out!
OK, silly question, but I am just not getting it sorry. When you say: “Beat the potatoes with the butter, milk, cooking creme (or cream cheese), sour cream, & spices until creamy” do you mean the spices that follow in the recipe?? The garlic and onino powder??
Yes, exactly!
OK, this is extra sad, I asked the wrong question?? :->
10oz Italian Cheese & Herbs Cooking Creme (or 8oz cream cheese, softened & double the spices) This is what I meant to ask with double the spices , is it the spices listed below to double. Not sure I should cook since I can’t ask the question correctly. Thanks so muchQ
Oh – ok, I see what you mean! The spices listed are not already doubled. So, if you are using regular cream cheese instead of the cooking creme, you should double the spices listed in the recipe. If you are using the cookie creme, you use the amount of spices called for in the recipe.
Cream Cheese – Double the spices in the recipe
Cooking Creme – Don’t double them
Thank you so much and Happy Thanksgiving!
You’re quite welcome – and Happy Thanksgiving to you as well!!
OMG! Talk about rich and delicious! So good!
Have you ever frozen this dish? I wonder about the texture of the potatoes, but it sounds worth trying. Thanks for sharing at URS!
I never have – but if you do, let me know how it turns out.
OH my word, have mercy, these look amazing!
How many people will this dish feed? I have a family four and I want to try it out of them first better I cook it for my extended family?
About 8 – and it’s great reheated too!
Ok great!!! I am so excited to make this!!!!!
holy cow – these will be my new favorite for pass around dishes. I have been making this for years without the bacon and onion and they have been a huge hit…this will make it even better and I didn’t realize I could keep them in fridge for 36 hours. Thanks for sharing!
Gonna try this at the firehouse!! Thanks for posting!
what is Italian Cheese & Herbs cooking cream? Do you mean heavy whipping cream or do you mean like an Alouette or Rondele Italian herbed cream cheese.
Thanks – they look amazing.
It’s a kind of cream cheese put out by Philadelphia Cream Cheese. It should be where the cream cheese is kept in your local grocery store.
What is a “stick of butter”?
Seriously? You really don’t know what a stick of butter it? If you buy a pound of butter, there are 4 sticks of butter in it. A half-pound has 2 sticks in it.
Funnily enough there are one or two humans who DON’T live in the USA and do not understand strange American terms!!
We tend to go by weights!!
A stick of butter is equal to 8 tablespoons. 🙂
I am a full time caregiver for my wife and I do everything that gets done. I love your recipe s
Most are easy to follow. Thank you so much.