Shrunken Potato Heads are the Halloween dinner side we didn't know we needed. The potato recipe made it onto Pinterest's list of its top 10 Halloween recipes of 2019, and I made all 10 recipes, to see which rose to the top of the cauldron.
Recipe IRL:
This recipe was overall pretty simple with very little ingredients and cooking skills required!
The carving of the potatoes was the hardest and most time-consuming part of this recipe. One thing I learned from making this recipe was to buy a pumpkin carving kit and use pumpkin carving tools to carve the potatoes vs. a knife which is a little more cumbersome to carve with. I got my carving tools in a kit at Michaels and they worked great. I also ended up using black sea salt to season the potatoes instead of regular salt as I thought the black specks gave the potatoes an even spookier vibe.
I think the potatoes turned out as ghoulish as I wanted them to and they definitely tasted good - who doesn't love a good ol' baked potato!
The avocado sour cream mixture was also a good pairing with it. I'm more of a standard baked potato, sour cream, butter and chive type of girl though so if I was making it again, I'd probably just dye sour cream green with food dye rather than making the avocado mixture. I will say though that I can't picture anyone eating these at Halloween parties as baked potatoes aren't really a party snack. I'd say this recipe works better for a Halloween dinner or small gathering.
I also used Yukon Gold Potatoes because I couldn't find Charlotte Potatoes.
Recipe reprinted courtesy of Tesco.
Happy haunting!