PERFECT Twice Baked Potatoes

October 30, 2025
|
Save & Share:

These Twice Baked Potatoes are seriously the BEST potato recipe you will ever taste! I am constantly getting requests for my twice baked potatoes with cream cheese – everyone tells me they taste just like fancy catering baked potato recipes!  Plus this is an  easy potato recipe to make ahead and the perfect side dish to just about anything. they look picture perfect every time, and they taste so creamy and flavorful! We love to eat these at Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, and other special occasions when we have guests over for a meal.

BEST Twice Baked Potatoes - this potato recipe is AMAZING! It is easy to prepare ahead, looks picture perfect every time, and tastes to yummy and creamy. This is a great side dish for Christmas, Easter, or with steak, chicken, ham, turkey, or whatever. This recipe tastes better than even the best restaurant!

Twice Baked Potatoes

One of my favorite ways to eat potatoes is by making them into this BEST Twice Baked Potatoes. I’ve been told my twice baked potatoes recipe taste better than any fancy restaurant version! Want to know a secret, they aren’t that hard to make! You simply bake the potatoes, scoop out the inside and whip up my twice baked potatoes with cream cheese, put the filling bake in the potatoes and then bake or keep in the refrigerator or freezer until you are ready for this make ahead potato recipe.
This is my families must have side dish for Christmas, Thanksgiving,  Easter, and whenever we have company. Try it once and you’ll be hooked!
We have so many yummy recipes to choose from! Plus don’t miss snickerdoodle cookies, faovorite cinnamon coffee cake,  apple cupcake recipe, dates bars, and curry indian butter chickpeas.
baked potato recipes

Twice baked potatoes with cream cheese

Start off by washing, scrubbing, and piercing your potatoes with a fork. Then cook potatoes at 375 F for 1 and 1/4 hour.

NOTE: You are welcome to microwave them for 20 minutes instead if you need to speed it up!

scoop out the inside of these baked potatoes

Fancy twice baked potatoes

Once potatoes have cooked and cooled slightly, use a spoon to scoop out the inside of each of the potatoes and reserve. They will look like little potato boats!

mix the potato with cream cheese, sour cream cheddar cheese, salt and pepper

Make ahead baked potatoes

Mix the reserved potato insides with cream cheese, sour cream, cheddar cheese, butter, and salt & pepper.

carefully spoon the mashed potato mixture back into your potato boats

Make ahead twice baked potatoes

Carefully spoon the mashed potato mixture back into your potato boats.

I like to top with oregano and cooked, crumbed bacon – YUM!

potato recipes

Bake in a 9×13 pan or baking sheet for 45 minutes at 350-375 F or until heated thoroughly. The reason I have a range of oven temperatures is these are super easy going and just need to be heated. So make the oven whatever temperature you need to cook your other dishes!

best twice baked potato recipe ever

These are seriously AMAZING! Your guests will be wowed by the beautiful look and amazing flavor. I’ve been told many times these taste better than twice baked potatoes people have had at fancy restaurants.

twice baked potatoes

These are easy to make, perfect for making ahead, and taste AMAZING!

We like to serve these at Christmas and Easter with ham, but they go great with turkey, steak, and chicken too!

 

Perfect Twice Baked Potatoes

PERFECT Twice Baked Potatoes

Beth Gorden
These are the BEST twice baked potatoes you’ll ever taste! They are easy to make ahead as the perfect side dish to anything, they look picture perfect every time, and they taste so creamy and flavorful!
No ratings yet
Print Recipe Pin Recipe
Course Main Course, Side Dish
Cuisine American
Servings 8 servings

Ingredients
  

  • 8 medium potatoes
  • 16 ounce cream cheese
  • 8 ounces sour cream
  • 1 cup cheddar cheese, shredded
  • 4 tablespoons butter, softened
  • dash salt & pepper
  • 8 slices bacon, cooked & crumbled

Instructions
 

  • Wash, scrub, prick with fork, and bake potatoes at 375 F for 1 hour  – 1 1/4 hour. Allow to cool to the touch. Scoop out the insides of the potatoes and put in a bowl. Mix the cream cheese, sour cream, cheese, butter, salt and pepper together until creamy. Spoon back into potato mangers (should be heaping over top a little). Top with cooked baton and oregano.
  • You can cook right away, or cover and store in the fridge for up to 4-5 days. When ready to cook cook at 350-375 F (whatever your other dishes need to cook at) for 45 minutes or so. Until heated thoroughly and inside looks melty and yummy!
  • It just wouldn't be Thanksgiving without the cranberry sauce! But I don't really care for the plain jane cranberry relish recipes or the canned version. Just seems like a waste of a perfectly good Thanksgiving side dish to me. So we worked on jazzing ours up so it was the best thanksgiving side dish and one that my kids really enjoyed. We made our cranberry sauce with pineapple. This super flavorful cranberry pineapple relish complements turkey so well and makes great leftover sandwiches too!
  • It just wouldn't be Thanksgiving without our family's snicker apple salad recipe! My kids go nuts over this non-traditional snicker salad they look forward to eating all year long. This quick-to-make apple snicker salad combines pudding, whipped topping, crisp apples, and snickers for an outrageously yummy thanksgiving side dish your kids won't expect.
  • One of my families favorite side dishes for Thanksgiving, Christmas dinner, Easter, and throughout the year is our green bean casserole. This easy, homemade green bean casserole uses canned green beans for simplicity along with French's fried onions for a tasty, memorable vegetable dish that everyone will love.
  • We make a lot of really yummy Thanksgiving side dishes, but the star of our table is our sweet potato casserole recipe! Over the years I perfected this recipe to the point where my kids beg for the best sweet potato casserole year-round and they know this homemade sweet potato casserole will be gone before anyone gets seconds! I love that this is a seriously easy sweet potato casserole where you can throw it together quickly, make it ahead, and it tastes fabulous every single time. you will love this sweet potato casserole with marshmallows, oats, and nut topping!
  • Does your family enjoy a Broccoli and Cauliflower Salad Recipe as part of your Thanksgiving spread? There are lots of variations on the broccoli cauliflower bacon salad out there, but this one with the sweet and tangy dressing, bacon, cashews, and red onions is not only pretty and healthy, but incredibly tasty and satisfying too! Our company always compliments our thanksgiving side dishes with this cashew broccoli salad as their favorite! Let me share our Thanksgiving salad recipes with you!
  • Looking for some Southern comfort food? Serve this delicious corn spoon bread as a side dish to your beans, tacos, or barbeque! This spoon bread recipe is quick and easy to make; just dump the ingredients, stir and bake! You will love the rich, satisfying flavor with the convenience of an EASY corn bread pudding recipe! You can man make it a Jiffy corn bread pudding or make it all from scratch with our  easy corn casserole recipe!
  • Seriously this homeamde cornbread stuffing is the BEST! The bacon, sage, and toasted corn bread make this a MUST side dish for Thanksgiving!
  • This yummy strawberry pretzel salad recipe is a delightuflly sweet and salty jello salad perfect for serving with hamburgers and more!
  • Jello salad recipes were all the rage at one point. While not a suppertime staple anymore, certain recipes have become family favorites in our house. This pistachio fluff salad is pretty, creamy, and easy to whip up! We like to eat this yummy green fluff as Christmas Salad Recipes because of how pretty and festive it plates up in red and green! Whether you've heard this called pineapple pistachio fluff or an easy watergate salad - this is truly a delicious and beautiful salad to serve around the holidays!
  • Best potato salad
  • You've got to try this YUMMY salad recipe with beet pear and goat cheese! This pretty ahd healthy salad is filled with yummy beetroot!
  • Are you looking for a yummy side dish for your meal? You will love this orange jello salad. This nostalgic jello salad recipe is made with pineapple, mandarin oranges, mini marshmallows, and cool whip. This is truly a yum yum salad your family will look forward to! Ready to learn how to make this jello salad with mandarin orages and pineapple - keep scrolling for the recipe!
  • This pretty pale green seafoam salad is created with a combination of lime Jell-O, cream cheese, whipped cream, and canned pears. Serve this jello salad along with your main dish for a pretty pop of color and a fun way to serve a pears! Kids and adults of all ages will love this sea foam salad recipe!

Favorite Sidedish Recipes

  • Make the BEST crescent rolls from scracth with this yummy angel rolls recipe! You can make these homemade dinner rolls ahead!
  • Whether you are looking for the best glazed Christmas ham or a baked ham recipe for Easter, you will love this yummy Baked ham recipe! This orange glazed ham is super flavorful, moist, easy-to-make, and picture perfect! This just may be the best Christmas ham ever! 
  • These amazing, creamy, and utterly delicious peanut butter bars are going to be a huge hit with your kids. They are sort of like a homemade peanut butter cup that is made with real ingredients from your pantry! This peanut butterc hocolate bar recipe is outrageously good and so satisfying as an after school snack or decadent dessert to take to a potluck or serve to company.
  • Yummy, healthy black bean soup recipe! This easy black bean soup is quick to make from scratch for a family-favorite lunch.
  • What do you do with extra pie crust? My grandma taught me to make pie crust pinwheels! These homemade pie crust, butter, cinnamon, and sugar treats are so yummy I've been known to whip up a batch of our best pie crust just to eat these pinwheel cookies! You've got to try this leftover pie crust recipes!
  • Have you ever tried a homemade cherry pie? If you've never tried a homemade cherry pie filling in a yummy homemade pie crust recipe you are missing out! Cherry pies made from scratch have more cherries, flakier crust, and taste better. Don't believe me? THen you've got to try our best cherry pie! You can use fresh, in season berries or  a cherry pie with frozen cherries for a truly delicious dessert that will leave you asking for a second helping!
  • Yummy fall apple hand pies with homemade pie recipe as a September dessert or as fun appetizer with carmel dipping sauce.
  • Unlike traditional Chili, this Sweet Chili has baked beans and is super EASY to make. Favorite even with picky eaters. YUMMY
  • Nothing says summer like a juice peach! But my absolute favorite way to enjoy peaches is with this incredibly easy and delicious peaches and cream ice cream! This peach ice cream is quick and easy to make with an ice cream maker or in a bag. The homemade peach ice cream is seriously such a wonderful combination of rich, creamy ice cream with sweet flavorful peach flavor.  This is a family favorite and best summer desserts we whip up frequently and a favorite of guests!
  • This pineapple cheese ball is the perfect cheese ball recipe! It is slightly sweet with an amazing flavor that will be a favorite with kids and grown ups alike. This is my favorite appetizer recipes. Yummy!
  • One of our families favorite recipes is our homemade taco pizza. I developed this copycat recipe when we moved south and could no longer get Godfathers taco pizza or casey's taco pizza.  This taco pizza recipe uses a yummy cornmeal crust topped with taco seasoned ground beef is just the beginning of your favorite new pizza recipe. Trust me - this delicious pizza recipe is so flavorful with a delicious crunch you are going to make this over and over again. Plus, this homemade pizza recipe is super easy to make with common ingredients and takes less than an hour for a quick pizza recipe.
  • Pizza Quesadilla - this easy lunch recipe is ready in 5 minutes and tastes amazing! Plus it is a kid favorite lunch idea for at home or in their lunch box #pizza #quesadillas #easyrecipes #lunchrecipes #kidrecipes #yummy
  • Refreshing lemon blueberry dessert perfect for summer! You will love the Easy Blueberry Lemon Cheesecake Bars recipes with a crumb topping!
  • Best Asian Slaw Recipe
  • Super EASY fall dessert recipe where you dump in canned pumpkin with simple ingredients to make the BEST pumpkin dessert recipes!
  • Did you know that it is super easy to make your own caramel popcorn? You can easily make your own homemade caramel corn that tastes even better than storebought, with better ingredients too! Let me show you how my family makes the best caramel popcorn in the oven.
  • One of my favorite christmas cookie recipes my family made was Mexican wedding cakes These white, powedered sugar covered, balls melt in your mouth! I love that snowball cookies have a rich buttery taste with a hint of peanuts to balance out the sugar. Plus these mexican wedding cake cookies are quick and easy to make! Come see our mexican wedding cake recipes and whip up a batch to enjoy this December or January!
  • Nothing says Christmas like a glass of this homemade eggnog! Our easy recipe makes the creamiest, best, most delicious non-alcoholic beverage
  • This yummy strawberry pretzel salad recipe is a delightuflly sweet and salty jello salad perfect for serving with hamburgers and more!
  • One of our favorite family dinners is spaghetti and meaballs. But it's not just a favorite with the kids! The wonderful flavors that combine in our best recipe for spaghetti and meatballs combined with the simple method make it one of my favorite dishes. So if you are looking for a quick and easy spaghetti and meatballs recipe to make for a weekday dinner, you've got to try this version!
  • You will love this best sweet potato casserole recipe that is so quick to make and tastes oh-so-yummy! Kids and adults alike will gobble up with sweet potato recipe easy! They love the smooth, creamy sweet potato mixture topped with the toasted brown sugar, quick cook oats, and pecans or walnut with mini marshmallows too! This homemade sweet potato casserole truly has it all!
  • Nothing say summer like lemonade, and this lemonade cake is such a light cheery summer dessert recipe that everyone will love. This quick-and-easy lemonade cake recipe is layers tall for the perfect proportions of cake icing. You can easily make it a blackberry, strawberry, or raspberry lemonade cake by topping with raspberries at the end or popping several in with the cakes for not only a pretty color pop, but to enhance the flavor too. I know this lemon cake wil be a hit with family and friends alike!
  • Pretty Broccoli and Cauliflower Salad Recipe is a holiday must! Veggies + bacon + cashews + sweet & tangy dressing = YUM!
  • Looking for a light, refreshing summer strawberry dessert? This no bake summer berry icebox cake is super easy to make and so yummy! Kids will love that this best summer desserts has a decadent oreo crust with light fluffy strawberry mixture on top. This strawberry dessert recipe is perfect for company or family Sunday dinner.
  • It's summer, that means picnics with fried chicken, hamburgers on the grill, and of course a good potato salad recipe! There are lots of different potato salad recipes out there, but my family is picky and doesn't like too much mayo. I came up with eh best potato salad and they beg for this recipe all the time! This homemade potato salad has bacon and egg, plus some other tasty southern tricks to make the best potato salad ever!
  • Nothings says summer like a fresh salsa recipe. Whether you are making homemade salsa to go along with chicken, top your tacos or carnitas, or to serve as a chips and salsa appetizer - salsa from scratch is always a hit! This pineapple salsa is a tropical twist that is bursting with flavor! You can make it spicy by adding jalapenos for a spicy pineapple salsa or keep it a mild pineapple pico de gallo if you prefer - either way it is abolutely delicious!
  • You've got to try this YUMMY salad recipe with beet pear and goat cheese! This pretty ahd healthy salad is filled with yummy beetroot!
  • Super yummy homemade chicken salad recipe that combines traditional favorites with the refreshing crunch of grapes. Super EASY summer lunch!
  • walnut ham and cheese o my pasta
  • Learn how to make the best Spanish rice with our quick homemade recipe to make this yummy, one dish meal in less than 30 minutes.
  • Introducing the most delicious and indulgent treat you've ever tasted - caramel popcorn cupcakes! These mouthwatering caramel cupcakes will satisfy all your sweet and salty cravings in one bite. Just imagine moist and fluffy homemade cupcakes topped with a generous swirl of creamy caramel frosting, perfectly finished with a sprinkle of crunchy caramel popcorn. It's a match made in dessert heaven! Get ready to delight your taste buds with the best homemade cupcakes ever. 

Recipes EVERYONE Asks For

Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of 123 Homeschool 4 Me. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! With over 20 years educating children, she has created over 1 million pages of printables to help teach kids alphabet, math, science, English grammar, history, and so much more! Beth is also the creator of 2 additional sites with even more educational activities and FREE printables - www.kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com and www.preschoolplayandlearn.com. Beth studied at the University of Northwestern where she got a double major to make her effective at teaching children while making education FUN!

Similar Posts

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating