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This Loaded Baked Mashed Potatoes recipe is a cheesy, delicious side dish suitable for holiday or family dinners throughout the year. It’s loaded with plenty of cheese, bacon, and roasted garlic for comforting goodness in every bite!
 Loaded Baked Mashed Potatoes Recipe

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Mashed potatoes are one of my top favorite foods. Big surprise, right? I mean, I know I’m not the only one. They are a total comfort food for me. I’m also not picky on how I have them. A touch of butter and some salt and pepper is very nice. Adding some roasted garlic and cheese is extra nice.

As a teen, one of my favorite lunches was some instant mashed potatoes. If we had cheese slices, I would cook up the potatoes and press a slice of cheese on top and let is sit for a few minutes so it would semi-melt. Then I would mix it all into the potatoes. Of course, this worked well too if there was some leftover mashed potatoes in the fridge, but that was less common.

These Loaded Baked Mashed Potatoes are my way yummier version of my teenage lunch. This isn’t health food…if you want that, you’ll want to move along. Loaded means loaded with delicious goodness like butter, cream cheese, and sour cream. We don’t have this side dish very often, but when we do it’s a special occasion. Everyone goes crazy for it.

While I love the cheese and all, I think the star of this mashed potato side dish is the roasted garlic. I’m so crazy about roasted garlic and even my former garlic-hating husband loves it.

Ingredients Needed for Loaded Baked Mashed Potatoes:

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Roasted Garlic for Loaded Baked Mashed Potatoes

The potatoes, garlic, cheese, sour cream, butter, and cream cheese are all mashed up together, placed in a baking dish, and topped with more Cheddar cheese.

Oh, and I have to share my love of my azure blue Emile Henry casserole pan. I love it so much. I won it back in 2010 in a blog giveaway on La Fuji Mama’s blog. Back then, I had never even heard of Emile Henry cookware, but now? I’m a total fan. It’s so durable, easy to clean, and everything bakes beautifully in it.

Loaded Baked Mashed Potatoes

Ok, back to the Loaded Baked Mashed Potatoes recipe — if you are feeling crazy, you can also top with some bacon and sliced green onions like I do. It’s baked in the oven until perfection.

Loaded Baked Mashed Potatoes

Loaded Baked Mashed Potatoes Recipe

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Loaded Baked Mashed Potatoes Recipe

Loaded Baked Mashed Potatoes

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  • Author: Brandie Valenzuela
  • Yield: 12 servings 1x
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This Loaded Baked Mashed Potatoes recipe is a cheesy, delicious side dish suitable for holiday or family dinners throughout the year. It’s loaded with plenty of cheese, bacon, and roasted garlic for comforting goodness in every bite!

Ingredients

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  • 5 lbs russet potatoes (skin peeled & cut into chunks)
  • 2 heads of garlic
  • Olive oil
  • 1/2 cup butter (1 stick, cut into pieces)
  • 8 ounces cream cheese (cut into pieces)
  • 1/2 cup sour cream
  • 3 cups Cheddar cheese (shredded and divided)
  • 1/2 cup milk (more or less)
  • Salt & pepper (to taste)
  • pieces Optional toppings: real bacon and sliced green onions

Instructions

  1. Place potatoes in a large pot, cover with water and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to medium and simmer until potatoes are tender. Drain well and return potatoes to the pot.
  2. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Cut off the top quarter of the garlic head and set garlic head, cut side up, on top of a piece of foil that is large enough to wrap around the entire garlic head.
  3. Drizzle the top (cut area) with olive oil. Wrap foil around the garlic head. Bake for 35-40 minutes or until the garlic cloves are very tender and soft. Carefully unwrap garlic head. Squeeze out roasted garlic or use a small knife tip or fork to “pop” out the cloves. Set aside roasted garlic and discard skins.
  4. With a potato masher, mash potatoes well. Then mash in the butter, cream cheese, sour cream, roasted garlic, and 2 cups of Cheddar cheese until all ingredients are combined with the potatoes. If needed, mix in some milk to ensure that the mixture is smooth and creamy. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
  5. Spray a baking dish (approx 13×9″) with cooking spray. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spoon loaded mashed potatoes into a baking dish. Top with remaining Cheddar cheese. If desired, top with sliced green onions and bacon. Cover with foil and bake for about 15-20 minutes. Remove the foil and continue baking until the cheese is melted and the top begins to brown.
  • Category: Side Dish
  • Method: Baking
  • Cuisine: American

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  2. Jennifer says

    Just made this for our Christmas Party. The only bad thing was that I didn’t make two. I was a little worried about the garlic but everything was perfect and this was the first dish to go. Will be recommending this to everyone! Thank you for the recipe. It was great!!

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  3. Jeremy says

    Thank you for the recipe. Made this for Thanksgiving and it was great. I also mixed bacon inside and added fried onions on top. Great dish!

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  4. HaleyHaley says

    The roasted garlic is truly key to this recipe. Don’t be afraid of the seemingly large amount used in the recipe. When you roast the garlic it takes on such an amazing flavor profile! It loses it’s strong flavor and just blends so well in this recipe! I now find myself constantly roasting garlic for numerous other recipes.
    I made these for Christmas dinner and they stole the show! I’m not at all exaggerating when I say Best Mashed Potatoes EVER!
    I just told my SO that I’m making them with Easter dinner and I think he almost fainted with joy.
    Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful recipe!



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  5. Miz Helen says

    Your Loaded Baked Mashed Potatoes will be a great side dish for the holidays! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Full Plate Thursday and come back to see us real soon!
    Miz Helen



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  8. Sonia Wilson says

    Talk about delicious! I have never heard of this dish until December 2017. While living in Jordan Montana back then. My boss had a Christmas party at his ranch and his girlfriend made this dish. I’ve been looking for this recipe and now I’ve found it! You are awesome! Thank you!

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  10. Heather Hebert says

    We made these for Thanksgiving this year, and they were amazing! They are definitely on the list for Christmas dinner too. Thank you so much.



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  11. mia says

    Wow do these look amazing. yum. Planning on doing this Thanksgiving for my first time hosting. Would it be possible to make these ahead of time? I want to get a head start as much as possible.



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  12. Crystal says

    This looks incredible! I’m always looking for new side dishes to add into the rotation especially when it comes to holiday gatherings. I think this is what I’ve been looking for!

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  21. Serena says

    There’s no way this uses two whole heads of roasted garlic. Do you mean two cloves?? Two heads would be extremely too much garlic!

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    • brandie says

      Yes, the recipe is correct. It uses 2 heads of garlic, not 2 cloves of garlic (which would be hardly noticeable with 5 pounds of potatoes). You’re welcome to reduce the garlic if you would prefer less.

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  22. Miz Helen says

    Your Loaded Baked Mashed Potatoes look fabulous! Thanks so much for sharing your awesome post with Full Plate Thursday and hope you are having a great day!
    Come Back Soon!
    Miz Helen

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  23. Sarah @ The Gold Lining Girl says

    Brandie, what a coincidence! I was just over at Inside BruCrew linking up to her party, and saw these potatoes featured and my jaw dropped because they look SO GOOD. I looked to see what blog they were from, and saw that it was your blog that you just told me about on our Hangout today! Too funny! These look incredible! I sooo wish I had them in front of me right now instead of a boring ol’ hamburger.

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  24. Donella says

    This looks AMAZING. I love mashed potatoes, but getting the garlic right is tricky. Seriously, these look so, so good… and now I’m starving. LOL Pinning this one!

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    • Kelly says

      This dish looks delicious! I have a question about the bacon. Does the bacon need to be cooked first? Thanks!

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  29. Hayle says

    I love this recipe, but am not a big fan of having to roast the garlic (I hate the smell). Is there anyway I could substitute it?

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    • Ivan says

      I HATE Garlic – However, I LOVE Shallots – Whenever any recipe calls for disgusting garlic – I substitute it with chopped Shallots. Period.

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  33. Angela says

    Stopping by from Pin It Party. Looking forward to following along here, great blog!!! Angela @ LeMoine Family Kitchen {http://lemoinefamilykitchen.blogspot.com}

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  35. Miz Helen says

    Your Loaded Baked Mashed Potatoes look wonderful, we will just love them. Thanks so much for sharing your great recipe with Full Plate Thursday and enjoy your Thanksgiving week!
    Come Back Soon
    Miz Helen

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  39. Lori @ A Bright and Beautiful Life says

    Yum, yum, and yum. I’m with you on the mashed potato love. I love the way your full casserole dish looks loaded with your delicious potatoes. I can hardly wait to make them. Would you be willing to share this recipe post and any of your other great ones at our Making Monday link party? We would love it and think our readers will, too. Thanks. Have a fantastic day. http://www.abrightandbeautifullife.com/making-monday-14/

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  41. claudia says

    Hi
    The casserole sounds delicious. Just one question,after I’ve removed the roasted garlic cloves and set them aside, do I just leave them there or at some point will they be included into the recipe?

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    • brandie says

      Hi Claudia,
      Thanks for asking! The roasted garlic will be added when you mash in the rest of the ingredients. While I mentioned it in the text of the post, I failed to list it in the final recipe. Hope that helps!

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