Super Buttery Mashed Potatoes
This Mashed Potatoes recipe is oh-so-buttery and flavorful. If you want to make memorable mashed potatoes, this recipe is the one!
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Why You Will Love These Mashed Potatoes
Ingredients Needed for These Whipped Potatoes
Ingredient quantities for this easy mashed potatoes recipe are located in the recipe card at the end of the post.
- Yukon Gold potatoes (or yellow or gold potatoes; see note below)
- Cream cheese
- Butter
- Heavy whipping cream
- Salt
- Pepper
- Garlic powder (optional)
- Milk (optional; to thin)
- Fresh parsley (optional; for garnish)
Yukon Gold potatoes are my #1 favorite for mashed potatoes because of their buttery flavor and creamy texture. If you can’t find them, you can use any yellow or gold variety.
How To Make Mashed Potatoes
The steps below are just a quick overview of how to make the recipe. The full process in detail is located in the recipe card at the end of the post.
Add peeled and cubed potatoes to a large pot. Cover with water and 2 tbsp salt, then bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer for 15-20 minutes or until fork tender.
While the potatoes are cooking, in a small saucepan over medium-low heat, combine cream cheese, butter, heavy cream, remaining salt, and pepper (add garlic powder if desired). Whisk occasionally until melted and combined, then turn off the heat.
It’s okay if the cream cheese doesn’t melt fully in the saucepan – leaving some small bits of cream cheese is 100% okay. It will all get mashed into the potatoes soon!
Once the potatoes are cooked, drain them and add the warmed mixture.
Mash with a potato masher, food mill, or ricer. (Here’s the potato masher I use.)
These mashed potatoes are quite dense because of the type of potato used. In contrast, Russet potatoes produce fluffier mashed potatoes, but they lack the deliciously buttery flavor of Yukon Golds. If you want to thin out the final result, add a small amount at a time of warm milk until the potatoes reach your desired consistency.
Optionally garnish with fresh parsley. (You can also add pats of butter if you’d like.) Serve and enjoy!
🥔 To store: Refrigerate within two hours of cooking. Refrigerated mashed potatoes will last 3-4 days in the fridge.
Favorite Thanksgiving Sides
Mashed potatoes are perfect for any Thanksgiving foods menu. Here are some more Thanksgiving side dish recipes and appetizer recipes:
- This Buffalo chicken dip is an appetizer that gets the event started and is exciting to your guests. There will be minimal cleanup because this dish will be devoured! The popularity of this dish ranges from Halloween menus to football game day food menus.
- The best sweet potato casserole recipe will make you a rockstar to all of your guests and family!
- Another winning holiday starter is sausage balls, and they will get eaten up as quickly as the buffalo dip!
- A delicious homemade cranberry sauce brings an element of freshness to the holiday table. It is sweet, tart, and delicious!
- Green bean casserole isn’t the first dish to jump into your mind when you think of Thanksgiving foods, but it makes it onto millions of dinner tables! The reason for that is it is creamy, delicious, and those French onions on top–so good!
- Bacon green beans are a dish that will amaze your guests after they taste it. It is smokey, sweet, and sensational!
- A sausage stuffing recipe that is good enough to be its own meal is the best kind of stuffing.
- Corn casserole is another classic dish that brings a delicious cornbread flavor to the Thanksgiving dinner table!
- This cheesy potato dish is another super-popular holiday favorite with cheese and bacon as toppings. And this mega-classic baked mac and cheese will bring childhood feelings of joy to your guests!
Just look at that buttery deliciousness down there 😍
Easy Holiday Dessert Recipes
Looking for dessert ideas that will wow your guests and earn you heaps of compliments? Dive into one of these dessert recipes:
- Craft a memorable Thanksgiving with a classic pecan pie or traditional pumpkin pie. These tried-and-true recipes will meet and elevate your holiday expectations!
- Elevate your holiday dessert game with a filling and fabulous pumpkin cheesecake. This dessert takes your holiday flavors to a whole new level—it’s simply amazing.
- Any festivity provides the perfect opportunity to indulge in a chocolate pudding pie. Its creamy texture and rich chocolate flavor make it irresistible.
- Short on time but craving something sweet? Whip up a delectable no-bake pumpkin cheesecake that combines speed and flavor effortlessly!
- Delight the pumpkin lovers in your life with pumpkin bars with cream cheese or pumpkin cookies with chocolate chips. Why not offer both? And don’t skip the cream cheese icing—a luscious treat on its own.
- For another pumpkin lover’s delight, try the pumpkin cheesecake fluff dessert. This fluffy pumpkin recipe might just become the new family favorite, requested every year! Serve it as a delightful dip or a light dessert.
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Mashed Potatoes
Ingredients
- 3 lbs Yukon Gold potatoes (peeled and cut into 1” pieces; see notes for substitute options)
- 1/3 cup cream cheese (cubed)
- 1/2 cup butter (cubed)
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
- 2 tbsp + 3/4 tsp salt (divided)
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 3/4 tsp garlic powder (optional)
- warm milk (optional; to thin)
- fresh parsley (optional; for garnish)
Instructions
- Add peeled and cubed potatoes to a large pot. Cover the potatoes with water and 2 tbsp salt, then bring the water to a boil. Reduce the heat to a simmer and simmer for 15-20 minutes or until fork tender.
- While the potatoes are cooking, in a small saucepan over medium-low heat, combine cream cheese, butter, heavy whipping cream, remaining salt, and pepper (plus garlic powder if desired).
- Whisk occasionally while the mixture melts and combines. Once melted and combined (it’s okay if small bits of the cream cheese remain), turn the heat off while the potatoes finish cooking.
- When potatoes are cooked, drain them and immediately add warmed mixture. Mash with a potato masher, food mill, or ricer. (If potatoes are too thick, thin with small amounts of warm milk at a time until you reach your desired consistency.)
- Optionally garnish with fresh parsley. Serve immediately and enjoy!
Notes
- Yukon Gold potatoes are my #1 favorite for mashed potatoes because of their buttery flavor and creamy texture. If you can’t find them, you can use any yellow or gold variety.
- If you need to thin the potatoes, add a small amount of warm milk at a time until you reach your desired consistency.
Nutrition Estimates (Per Serving)
Nutrition Disclaimer
Nutrition Estimates are per serving and included as a courtesy only. They are accurate to the best of our knowledge based on the ingredients and brands used, but their accuracy is not guaranteed.
