Potato Candy Recipe

This tastes much better than it sounds

Ingredients:
1 medium Idaho potato
1/2 cup margarine
2 pound bag confectioners sugar
cinnamon for rolling dough balls in
pinch of salt

Directions:

Peel potato, cover whole potato with water in medium saucepan, add pinch of salt and boil until done. Do not overcook the potato or you will have to start over with another one. Remove potato from pan and place in large bowl. Mash the potato with a fork, (Do not whip with electric mixer until it’sliquid), add stick of butter and mash together, then add all the confectioners sugar and mash/stir until all combined. You’ll reach a point where your fingers do better at the mixing than anything else.
Knead this “dough” until all the sugar is incorporated there may be small lumps of potato still visible.

Now form the “dough” into the shape you want. We always make “logs” about an inch and a half long OR you can make small balls. Then you roll the shapes in a small bowl of cinnamon and make sure they’re covered completely.

Storage: Potato candy hardens quickly so it must be stored immediately in jars with tight fitting lids. We always make this at Christmas time. Will do best if you actually wrap each piece of candy in a bit of plastic wrap and then put them in large jars topped with more plastic wrap before putting the lid on.

If you’re making it to give as a gift in a box with cookies and such at Holiday time, it’s a must to wrap in plastic wrap. Otherwise this candy gets hard and you don’t want that. It’s really best eaten the same day it’s made.

This recipe for Potato Candy makes 18 pieces of candy

By: Barb Gary