Potato Candy

  In West Virginia everyone makes Potato Candy for Christmas and I honestly thought it was a common thing everywhere, ha wrong! We was stationed in Upstate New York and boy the looks I got when I talked about it! Needless to say they were clueless and even some of the Southerners were too! You bet I enlightened them right away and they were happily surprised. It's a very simple candy to make, no thermometers, no watching closely, and it's only 3 ingredients- Win!!!

Ingredients:
2 medium potatoes
1-2 lbs powdered sugar
creamy peanut butter

 You want to start off peeling the potatoes and chop them into pieces for cooking.  Boil them in salted water until tender. Drain and cool.

Once cool mash to eliminate all the lumps. Add powdered sugar a cupful at a time, and mix well.  Do not be alarmed when it gets gooey, that is totally normal see!

 Keep adding and mixing in the powdered sugar until it represents fondant, you want to be able to roll it out with a rolling pin.

 Once your at that stage make a ball and place on a surface dusted with powdered sugar, roll out into a rectangle about a 1/8th of an inch thick.  Using a knife spread a coat of creamy peanut butter over the whole rectangle.  Roll up like a jelly roll and slice into pieces. Enjoy this family heirloom treat!