dad's potato candy

Ingredients

• Servings: 24
• 1 potato, peeled
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 6 cups confectioners' sugar, or more as needed
• 1 cup peanut butter, or more to taste

Recipe

Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 30 mins Ready Time: 1 hr 50 mins


• place potato into a pot and cover with salted water; bring to a boil. reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until very tender, about 30 minutes. drain. transfer potato to a large bowl and mash until smooth. stir vanilla extract into mashed potato.
• stir confectioners' sugar gradually into mashed potato until consistency is like cookie dough; add more confectioners' sugar if candy is too runny.
• sprinkle a large piece of waxed paper with confectioners' sugar and roll potato candy out into a rectangle 1/4 inch thick. spread peanut butter candy. roll candy and peanut butter into a tight spiral; wrap candy log in waxed paper. refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour. cut into slices to serve.