Have you heard of potato candy?
By yarnprty
@yarnprty (56)
United States
January 2, 2013 3:44am CST
It is so good. My grandma used to make it all the time when I was a kid, and I would remember helping her with it. Now I make it every year! I made a couple batches of it this year for Christmas.
If you have heard of it, do you like it? And if you make it, how do you go about making it? Like, what all do you add to it? I'm looking into some different ways to make it and adding extra stuff. Right now, I just do the basic potato candy recipe with a small to medium sized potato boiled and mashed, then slowly adding confectioners sugar til it's a dough-like consistency. I roll it out and spread peanut butter on it, then roll it up and slice into pieces! Ah, so good, I want to make some more now.
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
2 Jan 13
I never heard of Potato Candy so I searched for a recipe and this one looks remarkably like the process you describe: http://www.southernplate.com/2010/12/old-fashioned-potato-candy.html
What puzzles me about it is the use of potato. I suppose that it is more or less the same as using cornstarch (which is sometimes used to make fondant-type candies less sweet, I believe). Mashed potato is almost pure starch.
I would like to try this confection using raw or muscovado sugar and maybe include some pecans or walnuts, maybe processed to make a smooth 'butter' instead of the peanut butter (but it would then be quite a different thing). It would also be interesting to use sweet potato instead of the potato, though it might require draining to get rid of some of the moisture because sweet potato is more watery than potato.
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@sunshinesophie (794)
• China
2 Jan 13
I’ve never heard about it,but it looks really tasty.Is it a candy made of potato?It is sweety,right?Can you share the making steps with me?Thank you in advance.Have fun!
@yarnprty (56)
• United States
2 Jan 13
It is really tasty. :) Yes, you just boil a potato and then mash it once it's done. You'll add a whole lot of confectioners sugar (this candy is really sweet). It will become a dough like consistency and then that's when you roll it out. Then spread a layer of peanut butter on it. After that, roll it into a log and then slice it into half inch/one inch pieces.
Here, I found a great site that has the step by step with pictures. It might help explain things better. http://www.southernplate.com/2010/12/old-fashioned-potato-candy.html
If you decide to make some, I hope it turns out good for you!
@yarnprty (56)
• United States
2 Jan 13
It is very delicious, you should try it sometime! Yes, cooking is great. It's something that I want to get better at but I don't have much patience when it comes to that lol. This candy is very sweet, a lot of sugar in it so this would probably put you in a great mood then! :D
@arnold1428 (125)
• India
3 Jan 13
i too never heard of this candy . I checked the site sounds interesting. I will try it.
@YuleimaVzla (1505)
• Maracaibo, Venezuela
10 Aug 19
I have heard enough of these sweets, which idea that a vegetable or tuber becomes a sweet, I think that the potato is a very noble food you can turn it into duce or salty, on the other hand, here in Venezuela it is common to make sweet Sweet potatoes, delicious!
