Cherry flavor dominates these Amish Friendship Bread cupcakes! You may make the ideal Valentine’s treat for a classroom celebration by adding a few white chocolate chips to the icing.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 45 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
| Yield: | 8 servings |
Ingredients
- 3 ¼ pounds russet potatoes
- 1 pound unsalted European-style butter
- salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- ¼ cup hot milk
- 1 pinch cayenne pepper, or to taste
Instructions
- Peel potatoes and cut into quarters. Transfer to a bowl of cold water and rinse to remove starch. Drain and transfer to a pot of cold water. Very generously salt the water and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat and simmer until potatoes are soft and the tip of a knife goes in easily, 20 to 25 minutes.
- While the potatoes are cooking, cut butter in chunks and let come to room temperature.
- Drain potatoes thoroughly and return to the pot. Set over medium-low heat and mash with a potato masher until potatoes. Season with salt and pepper and add ¼ of the softened butter chunks. Mash until butter just about disappears.
- Add another 1/4 of the butter and mix with a wire whisk until it just about disappears. Whisk in the remaining butter in 2 additions as before; potatoes will be light and creamy after all the butter has been mixed in.
- Whisk in hot milk until incorporated. Add cayenne and more salt if needed. Serve immediately.
- Use russet potatoes. This will not work with red potatoes as they are too waxy.
- Thanksgiving gravy warning: For obvious reasons, these aren’t very sturdy mashed potatoes, so be careful with the gravy. If you totally drench them, they’ll basically melt.
Reviews
Luxuriously creamy mashed potatoes that are perfect for a holiday dinner.
Amazing mashed potatoes with such few ingredients. Made this last Thanksgiving and it was a hit. This will be my go-to Thanksgiving Mashed Potatoes recipe from now on.
This tastes REALLY good! I am on a diet though, so I really had to cut back on the butter. Seriously… add some rosemary and oregano and it tastes even better! (I had this on Thanksgiving) I suggest this to people who are not on a diet 🙂 I also think his best potato recipe was the baked potato puffs, but that’s just me… Thank you Chef John!!