These mini baked potato monsters are super easy to create and make a really fun meal for kids! Make them yourself for a fun dinner time surprise or give the kids the ingredients to design their own munchy monsters!
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Following on from the cute Egg Flowers I shared earlier today, here's the second fun meal that I created for Heinz Ireland to celebrate the kids going back to school - Mini Baked Potato Monsters!
These baked potato monsters are great for an after school meal as they are easy to make and too much fun to resist! My boys love the cute mini potatoes served with their favourite Heinz Beanz No Added Sugar and the monster faces make them extra special.
Mini Baked Potato Monsters Recipe
Ingredients (serves 1):
- 3 small white potatoes
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- ½ can Heinz Beanz No Added Sugar
- ¼ cucumber
- 2 slices carrot
- 2 slices red pepper
- 1 slice yellow pepper
- small handful grated cheese
Method:
Preheat oven to 200°C (Gas mark 6/390°F).
Scrub the potatoes, then drain and pat with a clean tea towel or kitchen roll until completely dry.
Prick all over with a fork, then place in a roasting tin along with the olive oil.
Give the potatoes a good shake to coat them in the oil, then bake in the oven for 30 minutes.
After 30 minutes, give the potatoes another good shake and bake for another 15 minutes or until golden and cooked through.
Once cooked, remove from the oven and leave for 5 minutes to cool a little.
Whilst the potatoes are cooking, prepare the monster features ready to decorate the potatoes.
Using a mini cutter, cut two circles each from the carrot, yellow pepper and cucumber skin for the eyes (you could also use the wide end of a piping tip if you don’t have a suitable cutter). Cut smaller circles for the pupils. Cut two rounded tongue shapes from the red pepper, and spikes for the cucumber for hair.
Whilst the potatoes are cooling, heat the Heinz Beanz No Added Sugar according to pack instructions and spoon onto the plate.
Once cool enough to handle, cut a split across the top of each potato and squeeze them slightly to open them up – these will form the monster mouths.
Arrange the potatoes on the plate around the Heinz Beanz No Added Sugar.
Decorate with the vegetable eyes, tongues and hair, and add grated cheese for extra hair.
Serve immediately and enjoy!
Be sure to check out the other fun meal that I created for Heinz Ireland - Fun Flower Eggs in Pepper Rings - you'll also find my top tips for back to school meals in the same blog post.
If you enjoyed this recipe, you might like these other fun Heinz inspired meal ideas:
Fishy Boats with Carrot Starfish
Or check out all our fun food ideas over on the Fun Food for Kids page here on the blog.
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Disclosure: This blog post was commissioned by Heinz Ireland. I was compensated for my time and the cost of ingredients, however all opinions expressed in this post are my own.
Mini Baked Potato Monsters Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 small white potatoes
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- ½ can Heinz Beanz No Added Sugar
- ¼ cucumber
- 2 slices carrot
- 2 slices red pepper
- 1 slice yellow pepper
- small handful grated cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200°C (Gas mark 6/390°F).
- Scrub the potatoes, then drain and pat with a clean tea towel or kitchen roll until completely dry.
- Prick all over with a fork, then place in a roasting tin along with the olive oil.
- Give the potatoes a good shake to coat them in the oil, then bake in the oven for 30 minutes.
- After 30 minutes, give the potatoes another good shake and bake for another 15 minutes or until golden and cooked through.
- Once cooked, remove from the oven and leave for 5 minutes to cool a little.
- Whilst the potatoes are cooking, prepare the monster features ready to decorate the potatoes.
- Using a mini cutter, cut two circles each from the carrot, yellow pepper and cucumber skin for the eyes (you could also use the wide end of a piping tip if you don’t have a suitable cutter). Cut smaller circles for the pupils. Cut two rounded tongue shapes from the red pepper, and spikes for the cucumber for hair.
- Whilst the potatoes are cooling, heat the Heinz Beanz with No Added Sugar according to pack instructions and spoon onto the plate.
- Once cool enough to handle, cut a split across the top of each potato and squeeze them slightly to open them up – these will form the monster mouths.
- Arrange the potatoes on the plate around the Heinz Beanz with No Added Sugar.
- Decorate with the vegetable eyes, tongues and hair, and add grated cheese for extra hair.
- Serve immediately and enjoy!
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sapna choudhary says
This is nice and awesome thanks for share us.Fantastic Blog...I will share your blog with other people.Thank you.
Cerys says
These are fantastic - I wonder if I can get my kids to eat potatoes by making these.
Veenas says
Beautiful decor and presentation. Can not wait to try this at home.