Taco bowls for the taco bar.

Whenever I do a taco bar I like to add these tortilla bowls to the buffet linefor those that prefer their taco makin's salad style...so they can eat it with a fork. And I love these little bowls because they are baked...not fried!

To make these bowls just press a flour tortilla into theses handy forms Using fresh or warmed tortillas makes it easier to shape them to the form without any cracking or splitting. I also use one form to press the tortilla into the other form. Bake at 350° for about ten minutes. I do spray to forms with Vegelene or Pam, not to keep the tortilla from sticking , but to help the bowls brown nicely.

I only have three of these handy little shell bakers...so one day when I was making about 50 of these little guy, I tried to improvise to speed up the process. This worked fine. But of course the finished product wasn't as uniform...and that day I was being a bit of a perfectionist. So I went back to just using the forms.

But this time I would just bake the tortillas just long enough in the forms for them to hold their shape (about 4-5 minutes), take them out of the forms and just set them on the oven rack to finish baking and start browning. Then I could start the next batch of shells in the forms. This really sped up the process. But with some country western music playing and chopping other items for the buffet at the same time...making 4 or 5 dozen shells goes pretty fast.


Oh yes... I discovered these taco bowl forms at the Bosch Store when I worked there. But they are available on Amazon.com.