Potato Candy

5 ingredients
10 steps

Ingredients

  • 1 medium potato
  • 1 Tbsp. butter
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1 lb. powdered sugar or more
  • peanut butter (smooth or crunchy)

Directions

  1. 1
    Have powdered sugar, butter and vanilla ready.
  2. 2
    Boil potato with skin on.
  3. 3
    Peel and mash while hot.
  4. 4
    Add butter and vanilla while potato is still hot.
  5. 5
    Continue adding sugar as long as mixture will absorb it.
  6. 6
    Mixture becomes like pie dough.
  7. 7
    Roll out with rolling pin on wax paper sprinkled with powdered sugar. Spread with peanut butter and roll up like jelly roll.
  8. 8
    Slice off 1/2 inch slices.
  9. 9
    Candy should be refrigerated if not used at one sitting.
  10. 10
    At Christmas, red or green food coloring can be used.

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