Potato-Chocolate Candy

6 ingredients
4 steps

Ingredients

  • 1 lb semisweet chocolate, chopped
  • 1 cup mashed potatoes
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 2 lbs confectioners' sugar
  • 2/3 cup flaked coconut

Directions

  1. 1
    Melt chocolates by heating them in the top of a double boiler, stirring it occasionally, until melted and smooth. Or you can melt chocolate in a microwave.
  2. 2
    In a mixing bowl, mix potatoes together with salt, vanilla and coconut flakes. Drizzle confectioners' sugar over potatoes, stir and add sugar gradually about 1 cup at a time. Mixture will get like liquid when first sugar is added then will begin to thicken.
  3. 3
    When mixture becomes the consistency of stiff dough, knead it even if not all the sugar has been added.
  4. 4
    After kneading, cover it with a damp cloth and chill until you can roll the candy into a ball, use a spoon to pick it up and roll them into small 1/2 inch balls. Then if you like roll balls in melted chocolate then then you can roll in peanuts or coconut.

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