Hi bold bakers, in 2018 I went to Kansas Bread Festival where I'm at bakers from all across the
country competing in a bread competition. Now one of the girls there, Lauren Katz made this
amazing bread. It was loaded baked potato bread everything you love about loaded baked potato in
a bread. I mean what's not to love? I'm actually going to share that recipe with you today because
I know you're going to love it too. So here I have my bowl of all purpose flour, plain
flour into this. I'm just going to add my raising agent, my baking powder and some salt and I just
give this a quick mix together. So this bread is a quick bread. What's known as a quick bread. It
is not leavened with yeast. It's leavened with baking powder, so it's much faster to make.
OK, set that over to the side. We're going to bring in our Big bowl and we're going
to mix together all of our yummy ingredients. So First off, we have some leftover Mashed potato
to add into our bread. This just gives kind of meatiness to it. It makes it really delicious so
in there now you can't have a baked potato without some cheddar cheese. Irish cheddar cheese. Nice
and salty. Add that in. I'm going to keep a little bit extra for the top of the bread. Can't have a
loaded baked potato without scallions, so add those in there. Be generous with those guys.
Bacon, I mean seriously, what's a baked potato without bacon? Add a lot in there. Lovely and sour
cream since I came to America is the first time I really had sour cream on potatoes. In Ireland we
would only ever have butter, I love sour cream now so put a big nice big dollop of that in there.
Then just follow that with some milk. And an egg. And then just give all that nice mix together.
So those are wet ingredients. We're going to add in our dry ingredients. All you want to do is just
fold those in until it's just combined. And the very last thing we're going to fold in is some
melted butter because you can't have a baked potato without melted butter. So in that goes.
And of course that's nice Irish salty butter. Just a quick fold. And then you want to get it straight
into your tin. So here I have a 9 inch springform pan that I've lined with parchment paper.
You do need a big pan for this because it's a big old loaf of bread. Before I put into the oven,
I'm just going to scatter over those little bits that I reserved. Some green onion. Some cheddar
and a few pieces of bacon. Just add the top and make it look extra. OK lovely now because this
is a quick bread, once the wet hits the baking powder it starts to react. So we want to get
this into a nice hot oven. Bake it off at 350 degrees Fahrenheit or 180 degrees Celsius for
roughly 60 to 70 minutes. Like I said, it's a big loaf of bread so it does need some time. So our
loaded baked potato bread is done and it is, in a word, impressive. Look at the size of
it. It's really heavy. It looks gorgeous. It's lovely Golden Brown on top and when you push
it down with your finger, it's firm underneath. So that's how you know it's beautifully baked.
This is absolutely gorgeous. Usually I like to let breads rest. However, this is a different type of
bread, so we're going to make different rules, and I'm going to cut into this while it's nice
and warm, but just check this out as they say in Ireland that there is eating and drinking in this.
It is a whole meal. Absolutely, I mean seriously cheddar, bacon, green onions
all the way through. As this bread is meant to be shared and saying that I'm going to call in Kevin.
Gemma, that is a meal in a in a bread. yeah? Check that out. Enjoy it warm. Oh wow.
It's soft, almost gooey like you're you know, spooning into
a baked potato. Oh my gosh. There it is. Seem not to choose. Oh yeah. It's absolutely delicious. It
is full of the lovely flavors of a loaded baked potato and they give you a hard push
to find somebody who wouldn’t love this. So fresh. Absolutely, it's great to share.
We gotta love this recipe. If you make it, upload a picture on biggerbolderbaking.com
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