Italian Cream Cheese Herb and Parmesan Mashed Potato Recipe

Tuesday, January 25, 2011
If you're looking for the creamiest mashed potatoes ever, this is the recipe you're looking for.


Perfect for any meal, great on a shepherds pie and spoon licking delicious.



I have used this recipe over and over for the last 30 years and it's the best-mashed potato recipe ever.


During the last few years, we have tried other ways to prepare them, and these are truly the best tasting.


They are so good, they don't need gravy or to be doctored up in any way.


One other tip, sprinkle the top with a delicious favorite shredded cheese and broil the top for a loaded style mashed potato and even sprinkle them with crispy bacon!


The best ever, believe me!














Italian Cream Cheese Herb and Parmesan Mashed Potato Recipe


5 creamy white boiling potatoes peeled cut up and boiled till soft

1/2 teaspoon minced garlic

4 tablespoons sour cream

3 tablespoon cream cheese

1 stick of butter

1/2 teaspoon each, parsley, garlic powder, salt, pepper

1/4 teaspoon oregano, basil and dash of cayenne pepper

1/4 cup of grated Parmesan cheese

1/2 cup milk, heavy cream, half and half (light or regular any will work fine)

Italian bread crumbs and shredded mozzarella or other favorite cheese is optional

In a heavy industrial mixer, add cooked potatoes, sour cream, cream cheese, herbs, 1/2 stick of butter and garlic.

Beat till smooth, add a little milk at a time to reach desired consistency.

 Top with a Tablespoon of butter and more parsley and cheese.Optional:( Sprinkle with Italian Bread crumbs mixed with melted butter for a crunchy topping)... Bake in the oven or microwave until reheated.

30 comments

  1. Forget the meats...I'm having just this for dinner. Omg, these are heaven. Do you deliver? ;)

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  2. I'm sure no one can turn away a good mashed potato. Yours looks very creamy and delicious. My children would love this. Thanks very much for sharing. Hope you have a great day.

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  3. very fantastic this cream. I think, this is very good for meat!!
    Bye .

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  4. OMG these sound great and would be especially delicious where there was no gravy, of course none is needed!

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  5. What a wonderfully spruced up way to enjoy mashed potatoes! These sound delicious.

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  6. The potatoes sound delicious. I'm so glad I found your blog. I grew up in a town that was about half Italian and the food I was exposed to at my parents friends homes was usually cooked by the grandmothers who could barely speak English. Living where I do, there is very little good Italian, so hopefully I can learn from you how to make it at home and you can pass it on to me as well.

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  7. Amazing idea! I love how it looks and I am mashed potatoes addict:))..I Love, love your beautiful version!:)

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  8. Woooo hooo! Love your delicious looking potatoes. Now I'm drooling all the way.

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  9. Mashed potatoes are easily one of my favorite potato dishes! I often use sour cream in there (my favorite) but have never tried cream cheese! This looks so creamy and delicious!

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  10. OK Claudia, just load up the potatoes...cream cheese, sour cream, and butter...OMG, another 30 more minutes on the treadmill for me.
    So yummy, and comforting! Love, love, mashed potatoes, and yours is the ultimate, "real deal"

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  11. This makes normal mashed potato to another level. love it.

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  12. I could eat mashed potatoes like these until my stomach literally exploded. Nice visual, huh? ; )

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  13. glad to see you beating and I mean really beating your potatoes, I think it is important to bind the hot meal of potatoes with its starch creating a much better consistency - love the flavors in here, love 'em a whole lot

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  14. These are the most delicious mashed potatoes I've ever seen! So rich, I bet they just about melt in your mouth.

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  15. Yum! Comfort food at its best! I can eat these taters all on their own!

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  16. Wow these look delicious! Parmesan makes everything better :)

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  17. I love mashed potatoes. Yours sound absolutely delicious! True comfort food! :-)

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  18. Cream cheese, sour cream, Parmesan.....how could anything be more yummier. These taters look delish!

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  19. what a refined and good looking side dish! a real turn from the usual mashed potatoes.

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  20. This sounds so delicious! I wish I had some cream cheese in the fridge!

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  21. Oh, my! My family would adore a bowl of these!!! I'm always looking for various ways to make potatoes...definitely a staple of our diet. Thanks, Claudia!

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  22. I'm a mashed potato kind of girl, add extra flavour and creaminess and I love you. These are fantastic would definitely dress up some shepherd's pie.

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  23. Mmm...I love adding cream cheese to my mashed potatoes. These look so heavenly, I think I could just grab a spoon and eat that entire dish in one sitting!

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  24. Wow Claudia! These are fabulous mashed potatoes! Rich,comforting, and full of yumminess;)

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  25. Bookmarked immediately...love the sound of this!


    US Masala

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  26. Clauida,
    You are killing me with the amazing smashed taters!

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  27. I love mashed potatoes and these are so creamy, just delicious :)

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  28. I chose your recipe to make for Mom's Crazy Cooking and they were delicious! Thanks for sharing this with us:)

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