Crack Potatoes – the ORIGINAL recipe!! Potato casserole made with sour cream, cheddar cheese, real bacon bits, ranch dip mix, frozen shredded hash brown potatoes. Can make ahead and freeze for later. Everyone RAVES about these yummy potatoes! SO good!! Make them tonight!
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Pin This RecipeOne of our favorite dips is Cheddar Bacon Ranch dip, or what I refer to as “Crack“. I usually only make it during football season because it is HIGHLY addictive. I only made this once this football season and I forgot to take it to the tailgate. I left it in my parent’s refrigerator! I was devastated!
I took the dip back home and started thinking about what to do with it – other than eat it all by myself. I decided to mix the dip into a big bag of frozen hash browns. The result? A fantastic potato casserole! We absolutely love this! Chicken Legs requests this all the time. I divided the potatoes up into 3 disposable foil pans and froze them so we always have potatoes when we need them. We just finished off the last pan, so I guess I need to add this to my grocery list this week.
Crack Potatoes
Ingredients:
- 2 (16-oz) containers sour cream
- 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
- 1½ cups cooked chopped bacon (about 1½ pounds bacon)
- 2 (1-oz) packages Ranch Dressing mix
- 1 (32-oz) bag frozen shredded hash brown potatoes
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 400ºF. Lightly spray a 9×13-inch pan with cooking spray.
- Combine sour cream, cheese, cooked bacon and ranch mix. Stir in hash browns and mix well. Pour into prepared pan.
- Bake uncovered for 45 to 60 minutes.
Notes:
Steph
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Crack is so outdated….you should call this Oxycontin 🙂
Yeah, everything in this is good, how could it miss? Definitely going to try it (And not count the calories!)
ok, this sounds crazy good. I'm going to make up a batch for Sunday breakfast.
I love cheesy potatoes in any way shape or form. This looks perfect!
Haha Love the name of these potatoes! They look and sound delicicous : )
Sounds positively MAGICAL, Steph! We have a delicious hashbrown casserole recipe that everyone loves, but it doesn't have BACON in it. I. DIE.
Can I use non shredded hash browns?
YUM, just added to my saved folder for future reference! 🙂
This recipe was awesome. We
did add more bacon and cheese to the top of it. We loved it
I luv remaking stuff in order to not waste it.
Cool idea and they sound fantastic.
Awesome. I can't wait to make these. Thank you so much for sharing. :0)
Sue – I did not cook the potatoes before I froze them.
I'm always looking for new potato recipes, and this sounds fantastic!
And, congrats on the win last night!!
Good morning,
If I am making them for Thanksgiving can I mix all of it together put it in the pan and then in the frig and put them.in the oven the next day
Thank you
Natalie
Absolutley! You can even mix it together now and freeze it unbaked. Just thaw the day before and bake.
Just sinful how good that looks! 😉 Excellently titled as crack..ehehe.
This looks fabulous. One question. Do you cook them before you freeze them?
I guess you folks are really happy today. I watched about 5 minutes of the game last night before falling asleep, and I just finished watching my recording of it – sure was exciting and I got to fast forward thru the commercials. Congrats to Auburn, their fans, and the SEC.
Looks really yummy. A great way to eat hash brown potatoes other than fried! Thank you for sharing.
These babies sound fantastic and we'll have to try them as soon as we can.
Oh that sounds fabulous!