Cheese, Cheese, and more Cheese. That’s what I like to hear when I come to a Super Bowl Party and these Doritos Encrusted Bacon Cheddar Potato Fritter Footballs will satisfy your every salty need.
So yesterday I shared my recipe for Bacon Cheddar Beer Bread Footballs baked with a bacon crust. I don’t know how to top that, really. Bacon crust. What more could you ask for in a Super Bowl appetizer?
Well, you know me, I can’t stop creating just because I’ve come up with something as good as a bacon crust, plus I promised you more bacon cheddar recipes.
I’m pretty sure this one wont disappoint.
Yep, this time I made a Doritos crust.
I have to admit that I much prefer sweets over salty snacks, but if you put a bag of Doritos in front of me, I will never, ever, turn them down.
The nacho cheese flavor and crisp texture adds so much to these potato fritters.I didn’t forget about the bacon and cheese. They are in there too.
I mixed them with Bob Evans mashed potatoes (my favorite mashed potatoes,) added crushed Doritos, baked them in a silicone football mold, then fried them to a deep golden brown.
When I set out to make these, I thought I could just shape them and fry them, but they didn’t hold together well in the hot oil. When I baked them first in the football shaped mold, they held together perfectly.
They actually tasted pretty good right out of the oven, but they weren’t as crispy as I wanted and were a bit more orange than I liked, so I fried them and they became crunchy and brown. If you like, you can serve them right out of the oven.
The great thing about this recipes is that you can bake them, refrigerate them for several days, then fry them just before serving. If you really want, you can even fry them ahead of time and reheat them before serving. This way you can relax and enjoy the game.
Dorito Crusted Bacon Cheddar Potato Fritter Footballs
These Dorito Crusted Bacon Cheddar Potato Fritter Footballs are great for Super Bowl, football, and sports parties.
- 24 ounces Bob Evans Mashed Potatoes or homemade
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- 4 slices cooked bacon finely chopped
- butter to grease molds
- 8 ounces Nacho Cheese Flavored Doritos crushed into fine crumbs
- vegetable oil for frying
- 1-2 tablespoons sour cream
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Stir together mashed potatoes, egg, cheddar cheese, and bacon.
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Grease the football cavities with butter. Sprinkle about a tablespoon of crushed Doritos into each football cavity.
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Spoon an even layer of mashed potatoes into each football (about 2 tablespoons.)
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Sprinkle more Doritos crumbs over the mashed potatoes. Press the crumbs into the potatoes using your fingers.
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Bake for 15 minutes. Remove footballs from mold.
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Heat a thin layer of oil over medium heat. Fry footballs until golden brown, about 30 seconds on each side. Drain on paper towels.
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Pipe sour cream laces and stripes onto footballs. Serve hot.
Special Supplies Needed:
optional, food processor
3 Wilton Mini Football Silicone Molds
frying pan
How to make Dorito Crusted Bacon Cheddar Potato Fritter Footballs
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Crush the Doritos into fine crumbs, using a food processor, or by smashing them using a rolling pin, meat mallet, or the back of a pan.
Stir together mashed potatoes, egg, cheddar cheese, and bacon.
Grease the football cavities with butter. Sprinkle about a tablespoon of crushed Doritos into each football cavity. Spread the crumbs out to cover the entire bottom surface.
Spoon about 2 tablespoons of mashed potatoes into each football. I used a #30 ice cream scoop.Then smooth it out into an even layer.
Sprinkle more Doritos crumbs over the mashed potatoes. Press the crumbs into the potatoes using your fingers.
Bake for 15 minutes.
Run a knife or metal spatula around the footballs. Carefully turn the mold upside down over and allow the footballs to fall out. They will fall out quickly, so be sure you turn it over close to the pan so you don’t break them.If you plan to serve them after baking them, you might want to leave them in the oven for another 4-5 minutes until a bit more browned.
Heat a thin layer of oil over medium heat. I used a 12 inch skillet and started with 1/4 cup of oil, which I cleaned and replenished as needed. Fry the mashed potato fritters until deep golden brown, about 30 seconds on each side.I suggest you clean the oil after frying half of the football fritters. As you fry them, the Doritos crumbs will get really dark and will stick to the footballs. I poured the hot oil through a strainer then added it back into the pan along with a small amount of fresh oil.
Set fritters on a paper towel to drain any excess oil.
To decorate your football fritters, spoon a tablespoon or two of sour cream in a small zip top bag, snip off the tip and pipe on some stripes and laces. Best served hot.You can bake these and even fry them ahead of time, then reheat for 5-8 minutes in a 350 degree oven. I reheated some of these for my husband for dinner tonight and he loved them, as I expected.
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More Super Bowl Party Food Ideas
from Hungry Happenings
Bacon Cheddar Beer Bread Footballs
made using the Wilton Football Silicone Mold
Football Fritters for Super Bowl
Super Bowl Prosciutto and Asiago Rice Cake Footballs
Madeira Mushroom Football Tart
Footballs Shaped Hamburgers Served on Football Shaped Buns
made using the Wilton Football Silicone Mold
Chocolate Chalkboards featuring Football Plays
If you want more tailgating or homegating party ideas for the college football season,
be sure to check out my Football Party Food ideas.
Hmm these look delicious, thanks for posting up this recipe, looks quite simple to make.
Simon
They are quite tasty! Thanks, Simon:)
Hi Beth,
Your delicious recipe has been nominated as one of the "Top 100 Best Potato Fritters Recipes on the Internet". You can view it and vote for it here: http://potato-recipes.org/best-potato-recipes/best-potato-fritters-recipes-internet/ (position #30).
Even easier: replace the mashed potatoes with toaster hash browns (found in the freezer case) and you will save the baking step and improve the texture.
These look super cool and they sound yummy!
Thanks for sharing at Tell Me About It Tuesday! I can't wait to see what you share next week!
these are so cool and would make great appetizers
Thanks for linking up at Tell Me About It Tuesday. We hope you hop over and share with us again next week.
Bacon, cheese and Doritos … I probably didn't need to know about these, but so happy that I do! Pinned 🙂
Yep, sometimes you just have to have this amazing combo together and what better time than at a Super Bowl party!
Okay, I would have a football party and I would invite you and then you would have to bring all these bacon
treats. It would be the best football party in town!
Done deal! I'll be there to root for the Broncos with you, ya know just in case they make it all the way:)
another winner! girl you have scored another touchdown with these. 🙂
Believe me, this would be the only touchdown I've ever scored. I laugh to think of myself running down a field with a football and people trying to tackle me. I'll stick to the kitchen:)
Oh my goodness, these look so good! I remember one summer back in Kingsport, Tennessee, my big sis and I were spending the day with our MeMaw. She bought us each our own snack. I chose a full size bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos. I ate the entire bag..no regrets. I can only imagine how good your kitchen smelled!
It's a grandma's job to spoil her grandchildren! Oh, I wish I could go back to a time when eating an entire bag of Doritos would not lead to regret. It was so fun to eat as a child and not ever think about calories. Oh, how I miss those days.
My kitchen did smell pretty amazing while these were frying. I had one hot out of the oil, and it was wonderful!