Best Grandma Shufelts Potato Candy Recipes

GRANDMA'S POTATO CANDY

Steps:

• Place the cooled mashed potatoes into a large bowl. Add the butter and beat with an electric hand mixer until smooth. Add the vanilla and stir in until combined.
• Slowly add in the powdered sugar 1 cup at a time, fully mixing in the first cup before adding the next. How much you use depends on how watery your mashed potato is as well as humidity, etc.
• You want the consistency to be like cookie dough that you can roll out. When you put a little bit in your fingers you should be able to press and mold it together.
• In this step, you have to work pretty quickly because it can dry out. Layout a large piece of wax or parchment paper, dust it generously with powdered sugar. Place the potato mixture on the paper, add a generous amount of powdered sugar on top.
• Roll it out to ¼ inch thick. Try to get this into a rectangle shape as well as you can.
• Smear the peanut butter all over the top leaving a half-inch border.
• Tightly roll into a long log. Place on a piece of plastic wrap and roll the log up and tuck the ends under. Place in the refrigerator for 10 minutes to set.
• Unwrap on a cutting board and cut into ¼-½ inch slices to serve.

POTATO CANDY

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients in a large bowl.
• Roll into logs and wrap in wax paper.
• Store in refrigerator.
• Cut in slices to serve.

YAM CANDY (AKA) SWEET POTATO CANDY

Steps:

• Bake sweet potato as you would a plain potato.
• When done use only insides of potato.
• Measure out 1 1/2 potato let cool completely.
• In a bowl Sift sugar, mix well with margarine, milk , cinnamon, almond extract, vanilla extract and cooled sweet potato.
• Knead until smooth with your hands until mixed well.
• Add coconut.
• Shape into balls about 1 1/2 inches round.
• Dust with powdered sugar.
• Refrigerate.
• makes around 25-30 balls.

MASHED POTATO CANDY

Steps:

• Place sugar, salt, coconut in bowl with softened butter.
• Add potatoes and vanilla and mix well by hand.
• Pack mixture into 9 x 13 pan.
• Cool in fridge.
• Cut into 1 1/2 inch squares.
• Melt chocolate, chocolate chips and paraffin wax -- stirring til no lumps appear. (ALWAYS exercise caution when heating paraffin -- I use a large well washed tin can and put it in the double boiler).
• Using a toothpick, dip the squares in melted chocolate and place on waxed paper to set.

MASHED POTATO CANDY

Steps:

• Beat powdered sugar into the mashed potato. Keep adding powdered sugar until mixture is at a dough like consistency and is no longer sticky.
• Turn the potato "dough" out and knead for about 5 minutes; add more powdered sugar if necessary.
• Roll the potato "dough" out to about 1/4 inch thickness and spread with peanut butter or jelly or both.
• Roll the dough up like a jelly roll and cut like cookies.

POTATO CANDY

Steps:

• Peel hot potato and smash it up real good with a fork, about 1/2 cup mashed.
• Add 1/4 teaspoon vanilla.
• Add enough powdered sugar to create a stiff dough. You may need more sugar.
• Roll out on powdered sugar, spread with peanut butter.
• Roll up from one end, pinwheel fashion, slice into 1/4 inch slices.

IRISH POTATO CANDY

Steps:

• Combine mashed potatoes and vanilla.
• Adding one cup at a time, blend in enough confectioners' sugar to form stiff, non-sticky dough. (Just how much sugar is needed will depend on moisture of potatoes. Baked potatoes tend to be drier than boiled; leftovers tend to be drier than fresh.)
• Working with about 1 teaspoon of mixture for each candy, shape into small irregular spheres (like new potatoes) and set out on wax paper to dry slightly before coating.
• Toss candies a few at a time, in a plastic bag with ground cinnamon.
• Shake off excess cinnamon.
• Store candies in cool place or refrigerate.