Delicious Twice Baked Potato Recipe

This delicious twice baked potato recipe has always been a favorite with children. I have served them at birthday parties and they are consistently a hit. There not just your plain everyday oven baked potato.

Some years back, I worked in an office. Every holiday someone in the office would coordinate what we called a “Potluck”. Everyone would bring a dish and when it was your lunch hour, you went up to the coffee run and had a little buffet of foods that your co-workers had cooked. It was quite fun. 

Well, I was always asked to bring the twice baked potatoes. No matter how many I made, there were never enough. It was the one dish that was always empty at the end of the day.

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TWICE BAKED POTATO RECIPE

How to make TWICE BAKED POTATO RECIPE ?

Prep Time15 mins

Cook Time20 mins

Total Time35 mins

Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: international

Ingredients

• 6 large baking potatoes, such as russets
• 1 tsp garlic salt or to taste
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margerine
• 3/4 cup milk or less, at room temperature
• 1 package of Velveeta Cheese (cubed)
• 3 tbls sour cream

Instructions

• Wash and scrub potatoes. Dry Potatoes well, and brush the skins with a coating of canola oil. Bake in a 425 degree oven until done, about 50 to 60 minutes. Check for doneness by piercing potato meat with a fork. If the fork goes in easily and falls easily from the fork, the potatoes are probably done.
  
• Slice the potatoes in half and scoop out potato flesh into a large bowl. Mash potatoes through a ricer if you want them creamy. Add garlic salt, butter or margerine and milk . Just add enough milk to make the potatoes the consistency of regular mashed potatoes, firm not runny. Add the cubed Velveeta and mix well with a mixer until smooth.
• Place potato flesh back into skins. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. After removing from the oven, top each potato with a dollup of sour cream and sprinkle with crumbled crisp bacon. Serve immediately.

Notes

Tip: For a tasty stuffed baked potato any time, you can make several and freeze them. To freeze them properly, let them cool completely, wrap in foil and place in plastic resealable bag. Whenever you need a side dish for dinner, just pull the potatoes out of the freezer and heat them up. They defrost in no time.