Description
Dress up your baked potato with an assortment of veggies to make an edible Mr. Baked Potato Head.
Ingredients
- Baked Potatoes (and/or sweet potatoes and yams)
- Toothpicks, optional (depending on age of kids)
Assortment of veggies:
- Carrot sticks
- Carrot slices
- Shredded carrot
- Sliced cucumbers
- Bell peppers, sliced or cut in chunks
- Mini bell peppers
- Sliced mushrooms
- Snap peas
- Cherry tomatoes
- Edamame
- Green peas
- Baby corn
- Whole olives
- Sliced olives
- Broccoli
- Black, pinto, garbanzo or kidney beans, drained and rinsed
- Shredded cheese
- Spinach leaves, etc.
Additional condiments for eating:
- Salsa
- Chili
- Sour cream
- Butter
- Ranch dressing
Instructions
- Wrap the potatoes individually with foil (for softer skin) or leave them unwrapped for slightly crisper skin.
- Place the potatoes on a baking sheet and bake them at 400-425 degrees for 45 minutes – 1hour, until they are fork tender.
- Remove them from the oven and let them cool.
- (If transporting them to serve for a group, place the wrapped potatoes directly from the oven into a large pot and cover the pot with a lid to keep the potatoes warm.)
- Once cool enough to handle but ideally still warm for eating, decorate the potatoes like Mr. Potato Heads using the veggies (and toothpicks when necessary).
- For small kids and large groups you can cut the potatoes in half and decorate either side of the potato. (In my son’s preschool class I cut the potatoes in half and it was easy for the 3 and 4-year olds to decorate the soft white inside without having to use toothpicks.)
- Or, you can decorate whole potatoes and even use the top slice of a bell pepper with the stem (or another alternative) as the feet stand.
- Prep Time: 30 mins
- Cook Time: 1 hour