Slow Cooker Ultimate Baked Potato Bar allows for a unique DIY dinner experience and takes hands-off cooking to the next level! The greatness of slow cookers should not be ignored – you will have perfectly baked potatoes ready when you walk in the door. Gather fun and tasty toppings for each person to create their own baked potato masterpiece, and voila! Dinner is served.
This recipe is Week 3 of our new “What’s For Dinner?” meal series, consisting of 10 weeks of delicious and fun meals for busy weeknights. Check back each week for inspiration to help you decide what’s for dinner!
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Make it a Meal!
Drinks
- Raspberry White Wine Spritzer – Refreshingly sweet to cool your mouth after some hot potatoes.
- Homemade Lemonade – A classic that should always be at your dinner table
Sides
- Roasted Red Pepper Feta Dip– Try this ON your potato for an epic combo!
- Cornbread Without Cornmeal – A light bread to go with your hearty meal
Dessert
- Chocolate Chip Cookies – After a filling meal these cookies satisfy your “something sweet” cravings
- White Chocolate Party Chex Mix – A few bites of this is all you need to round out your meal
How to: Make Slow Cooker Ultimate Baked Potato Bar
Who knew baked potatoes in the slow cooker could be so easy??
You need about 5 minutes of prep and a few hours of cook time for steamy baked-to-perfection potatoes.
As usual before baking a whole potato, you should pierce each potato multiple times with a fork. This allows hot air to escape and prevents any potato explosions.
Drizzle with olive oil and rub in with your hands until the entire potato is covered. Sprinkle with a little salt and pepper for a little flavor.
Wrap each potato in foil and place in the slow cooker. Cook until soft, about 4 hours on high and 8 hours on low. When done, carefully remove from the slow cooker with tongs and let cool until you can touch them.
Here comes the fun part!
Create your ultimate baked potato bar with an assortment of toppings to make your potatoes shine! I’m talking about everything from sour cream and chives to bbq, salsa, jalapenos and more.
The possibilities are endless – I like to think, if it would work on nachos then it’ll work on the baked potato bar! Enjoy and have some fun!
Ingredients Needed
Materials Needed
Slow Cooker Ultimate Baked Potato Bar
Ingredients
- 4-6 medium sized russet potatoes
- 2 tbsp oilive oil
- 1 tsp each salt and pepper
Various Toppings
- shredded cheese
- bacon bits
- sour cream
- hot sauce
- chives
- shredded meat
- BBQ sauce
- jalapenos
- crispy onions
- corn
- salsa
- cilantro
Instructions
- Pierce each potato multiple times with a fork and rub with olive oil. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and wrap in foil. Cook on high for 4-5 hours or on low for 8 hours, until soft.
- Carefully remove from the slow cooker and allow the potatoes to cool until you can easily unwrap the foil. Split each potato and serve with an assortment of toppings.
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I’m pretty much a human baked potato because I love them so much — thanks for this great idea, I love it!
Awesome idea! I love baked potatoes and this would be a really fun way to eat them. I love all the topping ideas!
This looks absolutely delicious and so easy to make! I’ve added it to my list and going to make this one soon
What a great way to use the slow cooker!
I love potatoes and your post and suggestions are just perfect as I am trying to figure out what to do for breakfast. Thank you for the inspiration.
Great ideas. Looking forward to trying this next week.
What? I would never have considered making a baked potato in the slow cooker. What a great idea! And, who doesn’t love a loaded potato. I just got a slow cooker again and will have to add this to the list of things I want to try out!
~Cassie
Love this DIY meal! Excited to try it for our dinner.
I love baked potatoes! Cooking them in the slow cooker is genius, too!
I absolutely love baked potatoes and have never thought to cook them in the slow cooker! Thank you I can’t wait to try this!
This is the first time I have used the slow cooker to make baked potatoes, they turned out great! The toppings were perfect and everybody loved making their own loaded potato.
I love making baked potatoes in the crock pot. I often add foil wrapped potatoes on top of meat when cooking it in the crock pot. They come out perfectly cooked every time.
I have never thought of cooking potatoes in the crockpot. I tried this recipe and loved their texture! Perfect recipe!
Omg 100% need to do this. We have baked potatoes all the time and they’ve gotten a bit boring – need to mix it up a bit. I’ve saved this as a pin – thank you for the dinner inspiration!
Great idea for using the slow cooker. I love the slow cooker – you can get SUCH great meals from them! You can’t go wrong with a baked potato, either!
I don’t know how to use a slow cooker, but this recipe looks as good as it sounds and probably tastes amazing!
I absolutely love this idea!!! So fun!
I LOVE potatoes – especially jackets in the winter for lunch, such a winter warmer!
Rosie
I don’t think I would have ever considered using the air fryer to do baked potatoes! My mind is blown right now!
Excellent idea. I will make this on Friday. I love baked potatoes and this looks like a fun dinner for my family too. Thanks!
Totally loving this slow cooker baked potato bar! It was so delicious!
My mouth honest to goodness began to water when I read this post! I’m (very sadly) allergic to white potatoes, but I could totally do this with sweet potatoes. It’s been ages since I’ve really loaded up a baked sweet potato and that sounds SO GOOD to me now. Catch me adding sweet potatoes to my shopping list this week (plus all the “fixings”)! Great idea here!
I love potatoes – lots of great potato ideas
Firstly, I didn’t know you could bake a potato in a slow cooker. Secondly, this looks delish and I can’t wait to try it
As a potato lover, I have to applaud you for this creation. The photos are literally making me droll 🙂
This looks delicious, I need to try this! 🙂
I’ve never done a baked potato in a in a slow cooker! But I love baked potatoes so much! What a great idea, thanks for sharing 🙂
This is such a great idea. It’s definitely a way to make baked potatoes fun! I’ll be doing this in a few weeks for a family gathering!
This is such a fun idea! I love baked potatoes!
This looks absolutely amazing, I immediately pinned it for later!