Best Chocolate Potato Candy Recipes

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CHOCOLATE POTATO CANDY



Chocolate Potato Candy image

Provided by Food Network

Categories     dessert

Number Of Ingredients 4

1 medium potato, peeled
1/2 cup melted semisweet chocolate
4 cups confectioners sugar
1 cup peanut butter

Steps:

  • Boil potato until very tender. In small bowl, mash potato with fork or masher. Add 3 1/2 cups of confectioners' sugar slowly until thick dough like consistency. Spread remaining sugar on flat surface and roll out dough evenly. Spread on peanut butter and chocolate.Roll into log and cut into 1 inch pieces! Yummy!

CHOCOLATE POTATO CANDY



Chocolate Potato Candy image

This is a recipe that came from my 1934 Hershey Cookbook. Wanted to share it.

Provided by donna morales

Categories     Chocolate

Number Of Ingredients 8

1 medium baking potato
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp salt
4 c powdered sugar
1/3 c hershey's cocoa
CHOCOLATE GLAZE
1 square hershey's unsweetened baking chocolate
1/2 tsp butter

Steps:

  • 1. Place wax paper on cookie sheet; set aside. Bake potato then mash, should have approximately 3/4 cups. Mix together potato, vanilla and salt. Slowly add the cocoa and the powdered sugar. Beat till the mixture is stiff enough to be shaped into balls, approximately 1" in diameter. Refrigerate for two hours. Dip them into glaze one at a time while still cold. Let excess drip off and place on wax paper and refrigerate till chocolate is set. Store in refrigerator in a sealed container.
  • 2. GLAZE: In top of double boiler over hot, not boiling, water melt chocolate and butter; stir till mixture is smooth. Cool slightly.

POTATO-CHOCOLATE CANDY



Potato-Chocolate Candy image

This is a wonderful real chocolate-like potato candies that you will love and can't stop eating them. They are best when chilled. Simple mashed potatoes are used, following bag directions, microwate instructions. You could also use those left over mashed potatoes.

Provided by tennca2001

Categories     Candy

Time 25m

Yield 36 approx. 36/48 balls-depends on size of balls., 12 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 6

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

Steps:

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • When mixture becomes the consistency of stiff dough, knead it even if not all the sugar has been added.
  • 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 ½ inch balls. Then if you like roll balls in melted chocolate then then you can roll in peanuts or coconut.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 521.5, Fat 21.2, SaturatedFat 13.5, Cholesterol 0.3, Sodium 173.9, Carbohydrate 92.3, Fiber 7, Sugar 76.4, Protein 5.4

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