How to Make Potato Candy for a Unique but Simple Christmas Treat

With Christmas coming, everyone is looking for simple, unique candy recipes. You can't go wrong with Potato Candy. This candy is very easy to make, uses just three basic ingredients, and is a change from the pervasive chocolate. Also, it can be served at a party or given as a gift. Follow the easy instructions and you'll have a unique candy for Christmas.

Potato Candy

Ingredients:

1/2 cup cooked, fork-mashed potatoes, seasoned with butter and salt
1 box plus 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1/4 cup peanut butter

Optional: cinnamon-sugar, crushed nuts, colored sugar, sprinkles.

Peel, wash and quarter about four potatoes. Put in a saucepan, cover with water, and boil until potatoes are tender when poked with a fork. Drain, season with salt and butter, and mash with a fork, or a hand-held potato masher. Measure out about a 1/2 cup of mashed potatoes.

Mash about half of the sugar in to the potatoes.

Add peanut butter to the mix. Work it through well.

Work in the other half of the sugar until the mixture is stiff.

Roll the mixture in to rolls about the diameter of a silver dollar and no longer than six inches.

You can roll the rolls in to toppings such as cinnamon-sugar, crushed nuts, colored sugar or sprinkles if you wish.

Slice the rolls in to 1/4" pieces.

Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Put the sliced pieces on the cookie sheet and refrigerate just until set. Store in Tupperware, or in a tin.

Serve on a festive tray, or give as gifts in holiday themed containers.