Recipe: Eating on a Dime Easy Twice Baked Potato

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Easy Twice Baked Potato. Then slice them in half lengthwise. Using a spoon carefully scoop out the potato, leaving a little on skin so they don't break. After initially baking the potatoes I took other's advice and put them in the freezer to cool-and scooping was so easy.

These easy twice baked potatoes get their creamy texture from a rich cream cheese filling.

Double the recipe if you're having guests over or want leftovers.

Choose russet potatoes because their flesh is starchy and will whip up to be nice and fluffy.

You can have Easy Twice Baked Potato using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Easy Twice Baked Potato

1. Prepare of potatoes.

2. You need of potatoes.

3. It’s of shredded cheddar cheese.

4. You need of heavy cream.

5. Prepare of minced garlic.

6. It’s of butter.

7. Prepare of salt and pepper.

8. It’s of bacon diced.

9. It’s of diced green onion.

How to Make the Perfect Baked Potato Base.

To make Twice Baked Potatoes, you need to start out with perfectly baked potatoes.

Get your russet potatoes out and scrub them thoroughly under warm running water.

Twice Baked Potatoes are basically a way to eat mashed potatoes in a cute little potato boat.

Easy Twice Baked Potato instructions

1. Peel, dice, and cook potatoes. While potatoes are cooking fry diced bacon drain and set aside..

2. Strain potatoes and mash. Add garlic, butter, and heavy cream until you get mashed potatoes consistency. Add salt and pepper to taste. I use mixers for this step..

3. Stir in cheddar cheese with a spoon..

4. Grease a 9x13 baking dish with butter. Pour potatoes in and spread evenly. Sprinkle bacon on top. Bake for 30 minutes. Remove and sprinkle green onions over top..

The first bake is roasting the potatoes so they are nice and tender and the outside is crispy.

Simply put, twice baked potatoes are baked potatoes that have the potato inside scooped out and added to yummy things like cheese, bacon and green onions and then that filling is mixed all together and then put back into the crispy potato skin and baked with EVEN MORE cheese, bacon and green onion.

Basically, what you do is you bake some potatoes, scrape out the insides, then add a bunch of yummy stuff and mix it together.

Then you fill the scraped-out potato shells with the new potato mixture, top with cheese, and bake again, just to warm it up.

When cool enough to handle, cut a thin slice off the top of each potato and discard.