Monster Mash Halloween Potatoes
Twice baked potatoes become the perfect Halloween side dish when you add fun monster faces, making them Halloween potatoes!
It might seem a bit early for a Halloween recipe, but in my mind, it's never too early to start planning.
You see, with every late September comes the same conversation between Tim and I. "It's almost October. We need to start thinking about Halloween costumes..."
Some people start this early because they're known for their crazy and over-the-top costumes. Not us. It just takes us that long to decide.
We're typically indecisive people, but our indecisiveness is un-matched when it comes to Halloween costumes.
I know we're the ones to blame. We just can't justify spending a ton of money on costumes and props for one night. But, being creative with what we have on hand tends to take a lot of laborious thinking.
Halloween food, on the other hand, that's something we get excited about.
Bring on the marinara sauce blood, bread-stick fingers and soups that look like boiling cauldrons of unidentifiable items.
Halloween Side Dishes
Halloween main dishes like mummy calzones are super fun, but sometimes you need a fun and festive Halloween side dish to go along with your party spread.
That's where these Halloween potatoes come in!
Halloween Potatoes
To make our Halloween potatoes, we start with a basic twice baked potato concept of taking the insides out of baked potatoes and seasoning them like mashed potatoes before putting them back into the potato shells.
Rather than baking our potatoes again, they get decorated with veggies to create monster faces. Green peppers become teeth, olives with pimentos are scary eyes. Chive or carrot curls can be hair.
And, don't forget the ketchup 'blood'.
Let the kids get creative decorating their own monster. They'll even forget it's all about veggies!
Monster Mash Potatoes
Ingredients
- 6 russet potatoes
- 3 tablespoon sour cream
- 2 tablespoon milk
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon onion powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ⅛ teaspoon ground white pepper
- 6 black olives
- 1 small green pepper
- 3 mini colored sweet peppers
- Ketchup
- Chives
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 450F.
- Scrub the potatoes and prick them with a fork. Place the potatoes on the rack of your oven and bake for 45 minutes, until the potato is tender and a fork can be inserted into the potato easily. Remove the potatoes from the oven and let cool until they are able to be handled.
- Cut a 1 inch wedge out of the potato and carefully scoop out the white flesh, leaving enough of a wall so that the skin holds its shape.
- Mash the potato insides with sour cream, milk, garlic, onion, salt and white pepper.
- Carefully spoon the mashed potatoes back into the baked potato shells.
- Arrange black olives in the mashed potatoes of three of the potatoes. Use slices of colored peppers for pupils.
- For the other three potatoes, cut triangles out of the green pepper and arrange them like teeth in a mouth. Decorate with ketchup ‘blood’ and chive ‘hair’ as desired.
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Disclosure: This post was sponsored by the Idaho Potato Commission. All opinions are our own.
Sarah founded Curious in 2010 as a way to save her recipe creations and share culinary experiences. Her love for cultural cuisines was instilled early by her French Canadian Grandmother. Her experience in the kitchen and in recipe development comes from over 10 years working in professional kitchens. She has traveled extensively and enjoys bringing the flavors of her travels back to create easy-to-make recipes.
These are great! I'm sure my kids would gobble these up!
Thanks Amy! We gobbled them up pretty good!
Sarah, These are so cute! Love the olive eyes, pepper teeth and the ketchup blood. Perfect for a Halloween party or potluck at work. 🙂
These would be so fun to bring to a work pot luck! Super portable! Thanks Isabel!
Awww - these mashed potato monsters are seriously fun!!!!
Thanks Katie! We had fun making them!
Haha I love these creepy little guys. So creative 🙂
Thanks Bobbi! We weren't sure if they'd come across more creepy, cooky or cute! But we loved them!
Those teeth are adorable! Great recipe.
Thanks!
Eep! These are ridiculously adorable! Absolutely love those faces!
We tried to give each one their own 'personality.' We probably sounded so crazy talking about how to put them together!
Your monsters look great!
Thanks!
Love your monster potatoes! Such a creative idea.
Thank you!
How cute are these little guys! I love their teeth!
They may look fierce, but they don't bite!
I love these monsters!! What a wonderful easy idea to do with kids too!!
I bet kids would have so much fun decorating their own monsters. That would be a great idea for a Halloween party!
These would look so good on at a Halloween dinner!
Everyone's food this week would make for such an incredibly spread!
What a great idea! They are so cute! I love it!
Thanks Jennifer!
HaHaHa! Too fun! I love the way these monster mash potatoes look.
Thanks!
Besides being just adorable (and spooky, of course!), your monsters look delish!!
Thanks Liz! It's so hard to separate the cute and spooky from Halloween food!
So cute! And tasty too.
Thanks Renee!