If you’ve never tasted potato candy before, you don’t know what you’re missing. No, it doesn’t taste like potatoes. It tastes like peanut butter candy, actually. It’s so fun to make it, too! You get to play with mashed potatoes and powdered sugar and watch the magic of the powdered sugar turning the potatoes into a liquid! Then you keep adding the sugar until you have a dough. After that, you roll it out and spread peanut butter on it, then roll it up into a log. Then you chill it and slice it.

If you like peanut butter, you’ll like this candy. I think it tastes better than peanut butter fudge. You would think that all that sugar would make the dough taste sweeter than it does. Yet, some kind of chemical reaction must occur when the potatoes meet the sugar, rendering the taste and texture unique and not overly sweet. continue reading »