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Cheesy Mini Potato Gratin Stacks (Muffin Tin)

By:Nagi
Published:25 Sep '15Updated:13 Nov '20
344 Comments
Recipe v Video v

For breakfast with eggs? As party food? As a side for a fancy dinner? The possibilities are endless. And these Mini Potato Gratin Stacks are just 85 calories per serving!

Mini Potato Gratin Stacks - great party food, breakfast with eggs or as a side for a fancy dinner. Made in a muffin tin! recipetineats.com

All you need to know is that these Mini Potato Gratin Stacks are cheesy, creamy and ridiculously irresistible. I mean, come on. Potatoes + cheese + cream + garlic + butter. BAM! That’s a home run right there!

These are inspired by the French Food Goddess Julia Childs and her classic French Potato Gratin / Dauphinoise which I posted last year. It is dangerous for me to make her Potato Dauphinoise when I don’t have company because I literally cannot stop eating it. I swear, she is single handedly responsible for the abnormal amount of stretchy clothes in my wardrobe.

French food. Butter. Cream. Butter. Garlic. Cream.

CHEESE.

SO GOOD.

Mini Potato Gratin Stacks - great party food, breakfast with eggs or as a side for a fancy dinner. Made in a muffin tin! recipetineats.com

Mini Potato Gratin Stacks - great party food, breakfast with eggs or as a side for a fancy dinner. Made in a muffin tin! recipetineats.com

By making these in mini form, you can convince yourself they are almost healthy because each mini stack only has 85 calories. Believe me when I say it DOES NOT TASTE LIKE THAT! The reason there is no photo with all 12 that this recipe makes is because I simply could not resist helping myself to 1 2 3.

It was lunch!! LUNCH! Don’t judge me!!

Mini Potato Gratin Stacks - great party food, breakfast with eggs or as a side for a fancy dinner. Made in a muffin tin! recipetineats.com

Whenever I post a recipe like this, I can anticipate the email I’ll get from my mother. “Who ate it all? Aren’t you supposed to be on a DIET?” “Did you deliver all these to the homeless? Hot?”

So this is the thing. With all the cooking I’ve been doing for my blog and also for clients, I have found myself with an extraordinarily excessive amount of food. And I have connected with the less fortunate in my area. So at the end of almost every day, I do a food delivery. I pack up the food I have made, reheat it, then do a food delivery,

Then the next day when I do my next food delivery, I request feedback. They approved of these Mini Potato Gratin Stacks. 🙂

This is a recipe for all the potato-loving cheese monsters out there. Hail to us. All the recommended food groups, right there in one little stack! – Nagi x

Mini Potato Gratin Stacks - great party food, breakfast with eggs or as a side for a fancy dinner. Made in a muffin tin! recipetineats.com

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Mini Potato Gratin (Muffin Tin) - great party food, breakfast with eggs or as a side for a fancy dinner. Freezer friendly and easy to make!

Cheesy Potato Gratin Stacks (Muffin Tin)

Author: Nagi | RecipeTin Eats
Prep: 15 mins
Cook: 45 mins
Total: 1 hr
Finger Food, Side
French
4.99 from 69 votes
Servings12
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When you combine potatoes, cream, cheese, garlic and butter, you just can't go wrong. These individual size portions made in a muffin tin are great as a side, for breakfast with eggs (and bacon!) OR as finger food for a party! Just 85 calories per piece and they're freezer friendly too! Recipe VIDEO below.

Ingredients

  • Oil spray
  • 1 kg / 2 lb potatoes, large long ones (Note 1)
  • 2 tbsp / 30 g butter
  • 2 garlic cloves, minced
  • 1/2 cup cream, heavy / thickened (Note 4)
  • 1 tsp dried thyme
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • Black pepper
  • 1 cup grated melting cheese (cheddar, gruyere, swiss, mozzarella)
  • Fresh thyme leaves for garnish, optional

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350F/180C.
  • Spray a standard 12 hole muffin tin with oil.
  • Peel potatoes. Stand upright then cut into cylinder shapes, then slice potatoes into thin slices around 2mm/ 1/10" thick.
  • Place butter, garlic, cream, salt, pepper and dried thyme in a microwave proof cup or bowl, then melt in 30 second bursts.
  • Stir, then set aside.
  • Place potato slices into the muffin tin so they go halfway up the muffin tin holes. Try to match by size to make them into neat stacks.
  • Drizzle each potato stack with 1/2 tsp of cream mixture.
  • Sprinkle HALF the cheese over the potato stacks.
  • Top with remaining potato slices. Drizzle with remaining cream mixture and remaining thyme.
  • Cover loosely with foil and bake for 35 minutes.
  • Remove from oven, sprinkle with remaining cheese and bake without foil for 10 minutes or until golden and the potato is soft.
  • Let stand for 5 minutes before removing. Use a tablespoon or butter knife to help scope them out. (Note 3)

To Serve

  • Breakfast - serve with eggs and bacon.
  • Dinner - serve as a side.
  • Finger food - serve warm as is.

Recipe Notes:

1. You need to use starchy potatoes as they breakdown when cooked, becoming nice and fluffy on the inside and golden and crunchy on the outside. The best to use are Russet (common in the US), Dutch creams, King Edwards or red delight. However, great all rounders like golden delight, coliban, red rascal and Sebago (popular in Australia - the dirt brushed ones) still works great.
I use Sebago which are the brushed potatoes you can get from any supermarket in Australia (ie. the ones with dirt on them). If you are based in the US, a great all rounder to use is Russet which I understand is one of the most widely used potatoes in the US.
Get long large ones that are suitable to cut into cylinder shapes.
2. Fantastic for making ahead! Bake per recipe then either freeze them (defrost before reheating) or keep them in the refrigerator. Them pop them in a 180C/350F oven for 10 minutes just to heat through.
3. Spraying the muffin tin + the butter and cream helps keep the gratin stacks from sticking to the muffin tin. Also, the muffin tin I use is non stick. If your muffin tin is not non stick, spray it generously with oil before putting the potato in to ensure it slips out easily! Because starchy potatoes are used for this recipe, they breakdown and become soft so they sort of bond together which helps keep these stacks upright. Some might slide slightly when you take them out but the resting time helps "set" them.
4. Any pourable cream is fine though thickened / heavy cream will yield creamiest result because they have a higher fat content.
5. Mini Potato Gratin Stacks nutrition per serving. Insanely sensible!
Mini Potato Gratin Stacks Nutrition

Nutrition Information:

Serving: 81gCalories: 85cal (4%)Carbohydrates: 11.3g (4%)Protein: 3.5g (7%)Fat: 3g (5%)Saturated Fat: 1.8g (11%)Polyunsaturated Fat: 1.2gCholesterol: 8mg (3%)Sodium: 174mg (8%)Fiber: 1.8g (8%)Sugar: 0.9g (1%)
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344 Comments

  1. Sally Fumich says

    January 4, 2021 at 7:14 am

    5 stars
    I made a vessel error and stacked my potatoes etc in jumbo sized muffin tins. I actually think the mistaken size might be good as a side. They’re more substantial! The only difference is that I used up the gruyere, cream mix quicker as instead of 12, I got 6. I had to add a little more bake time and turned on the broiler a couple of minutes to add more color to the tops. I’m testing these for an upcoming dinner with friends, I will see how they reheat and will go from there. Straight out of the oven, 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

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  2. Jessica Hwang says

    December 29, 2020 at 10:43 am

    5 stars
    My parents and grandpa loved this as a delicious change from the typical mashed potatoes for christmas dinner, thank you!

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