This kind of potatoes are usually made for a special occasion, holiday or just to impress someone. These are those OMG potatoes………..You have to start out with perfectly baked potatoes. Let them cool. Then slice a quarter- third off the top and carefully scoop them out so you have a shell. With the use of a potato ricer the filling will be fluffy and free of lumps. Egg yolks, butter and heavy cream make these potatoes an indulgence. You can even build it up slightly more by serving these potatoes with either warm parsley or thyme butter and a crack of fresh salt and pepper.

Ingredients for 4 generous servings or 8 diet servings

4 russet style poatoes – medium sized and washed

4 russet style potatoes – small sized and washed

4 Tablespoons canola oil – for cooking all the potatoes

2 teaspoons kosher salt – for cooking the medium potatoes

6 Tablespoons butter – unsalted – room temperature

1/4 cup heavy cream

4 XL egg yolks

1 teaspoon sea salt

1/4 teaspoon white pepper

few grates fresh nutmeg

pinch cayenne

a crack of fresh ground sea salt

a crack or two of fresh ground black pepper – for seasoning potato shell and on top if desired

Directions

Set oven at 350 degrees F

All the potatoes get priced with a fork all over and get a light sprinkle of oil.

The larger or medium sized potatoes get a light sprinkle of kosher salt all over.

All the potatoes go on a baking sheet(s) in the oven for about one hour.

The potatoes should look like this. The skin is thin and slightly winked and is dry to the touch.

Leave the potatoes cool till enough so you can cut them and then peel the small potatoes and put them in a bowl to collect. Then slice the upper quarter off the tops of the four larger potatoes. Scoop remaining potato from the tops and add it to the bowl with all the other dug out potato.

Then carefully hollow out the potatoes with a teaspoon leaving about a quarter inch shell like this and add a crack or two of salt and pepper to season the potato shell.

Now rice all the potato in the bowl.

When done set to the side.

In a small bowl mix together egg yolks, heavy cream, 1 teaspoon salt, white pepper, nutmeg and cayenne.

Use a fork and mix it in to the potatoes.

Spoon the potato mixture to the top of the potatoes like this.

Now with a pastry bag with a #6 tip attached fold the bag halfway down and add one quarter of the potato mixture.

Decorate anyway you like. I just applied pressure and made a circular motion over the potatoes sort of like an imaginary cork screw.

Put them in a 350 degree F oven for 20 minutes and they looked like this.

I didn’t add fresh hot parsley or thyme butter but did add a crack of fresh sea salt and pepper.

Forking Crazy Good Potatoes!