Best Make Ahead Cheez Whiz Mashed Potatoes Recipes

MAKE-AHEAD CHEEZ WHIZ MASHED POTATOES

Steps:

• Place potatoes in saucepan and cover with water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium and cook 25 to 30 minutes until tender. Drain.
• Mash potatoes with hand masher or electric mixer. Stir in remaining ingredients. Refrigerate until just before serving time.
• To reheat, microwave at HIGH for 5-7 minutes, stirring occasionally.

A MOUNTAIN OF MAKE-AHEAD MASHED POTATOES

Steps:

• Place potatoes in large pot, cover with water, and bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat, cover, and cook for 20-25 minutes or until potatoes are tender.
• Drain potatoes, place in large bowl, and mash with sour cream, cream cheese, onions, salt, and 4 tablespoons of butter, stirring until butter and cream cheese have melted.
• Spread potatoes into greased 13 x 9 baking dish.
• Melt remaining butter and drizzle over potatoes.
• Sprinkle with paprika, cover, and refrigerate until ready to use (you can bake these right away, of course).
• Refrigerated potatoes need to sit at room temperature for 30 minutes before baking.
• Cover with tin foil and bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes, then remove foil and bake for another 20 minutes.

MAKE-AHEAD CHEESY MASHED POTATOES

Steps:

• Place potatoes in a 6-qt saucepan; add enough water to cover potatoes. Heat to boiling over high heat; reduce heat to medium. Cook uncovered 15 to 18 minutes or until tender; drain. Mash potatoes in saucepan with potato masher or elecric mixer on low speed.
• Meanwhile, in medium bowl, beat cream cheese, cheddar cheese and parmesan cheese with elecric mixer on low speed until smooth. Beat in sour cream and garlic salt.
• Heat oven to 350. Stir cheese mixture into mashed potatoes until well blended. If potatoes are too still, stir in milk, 1 tablespoon at a time, until desired consistency. Spoon into ungreased 13X9 inch glass baking dish.
• (If not baking right away, cover and refrigerate. Remove from refrigerator 30 minutes before ready to bake and then bake as directed.).
• Bake uncovered 35 to 40 minutes or until hot and top is lightly browned. Sprinkle with paprika and chives.

THE BEST MAKE-AHEAD MASHED POTATOES

Steps:

• Adjust an oven rack to the middle position and preheat to 450 degrees.
• Microwave the potatoes on high for 16 minutes, turning them over once.
• Transfer potatoes to oven and place directly on the oven rack. Bake about 30 minutes, turning once, or until a skewer glides easily through the flesh.
• Remove from from oven and cut each potato in half lengthwise.
• Using an oven mitt or folded kitchen towel to hold the hot potatoes, scrape out the flesh into a large microwave-safe bowl.
• Use a fork, masher, or spatula, break the potato flesh into small pieces.
• Transfer half of the potatoes to a mixer bowl and beat on high speed with the paddle attachment until smooth, about 30 seconds. (I used a hand mixer with the standard beaters and it worked fine but definitely use a stand mixer if you have it.)
• Gradually add the rest of the potatoes to incorporate until no lumps remain, 1 to 2 minutes.
• Remove bowl from mixer and gently fold in 2 cups of the cream followed by the butter and 2 tsp of salt. (This will look way too wet at first but keep folding and it will all come together without being soupy).
• Fold in up to 1/2 cup more cream as needed to reach desired consistency.
• Once desired consistency is reached, fold in an additional 1/2 cup cream. The potatoes will be quite loose at this point but this is neccesary to prevent them drying out overnight. You may skip adding the additional cream if you want to serve the potatoes immediately.
• Add any additional seasonings you desire (I like adding parmesan and roasted garlic).
• TO STORE: Transfer the potatoes back to the large microwave-safe bowl and cover tightly with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for up to 2 days.
• TO SERVE: Poke lots of holes in the plastic wrap and microwave at 75% power until the potatoes are hot, about 14 minutes, stirring gently halfway through.