Tater candy (aka Irish potato candy or peanut butter pinwheels). Let chill in fridge at least one hour. Remove skin and mash in a bowl. Begin adding powdered sugar and mixing with potato.
Dust a board with confectioner's sugar and roll out a piece of potato-sugar dough until it is roughly square or rectangular, and about ΒΌ-inch thick.
Spread one side with peanut butter.
I've also used this potato candy recipe to make my old fashioned Easter Egg Candy.
You can cook Tater candy (aka Irish potato candy or peanut butter pinwheels) using 4 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Tater candy (aka Irish potato candy or peanut butter pinwheels)
- You need of potato.
- It's of sugar powdered.
- It's of peanut butter.
- You need of vanilla extract.
It's a traditional Irish recipe that my family made for years around the holidays. Mix sifted sugar into potatoes a little at a time by hand. (Don't panic when potatoes liquify as the first sugar is added.. See recipes for Tom Yum Linguine too.. This no bake potato candy is absolutely addictive and makes the perfect party treat or neighbor gift.
Tater candy (aka Irish potato candy or peanut butter pinwheels) step by step
- Boil 1 medium sized potato until a fork stuck in middle goes in easy. Potato should be very soft. Let chill in fridge at least one hour. Remove skin and mash in a bowl. Begin adding powdered sugar and mixing with potato. Add vanilla extract before mixture gets thick..
- Continue adding sugar and mixing until it is thick enough to spread and roll out with a rolling pin. Should be about as thick as making a pie crust..
- Spread potato mixture out on wax paper using powdered sugar to help ease of rolling out. Roll to about 1/4 inch thickness or less..
- Spread peanut butter over potato mixture to about 1/8 inch from all edges. Begin to roll up into a log..
- Wrap rolled log in wax paper and put in fridge to chill. At least one hour (longer is better).
- Cut into little "wheels", and enjoy!.
Retro Potato Candy Recipe with Peanut Butter. We're no strangers to sweet potato recipes like potato cakes (Vermont Chocolate Potato Cake) or potato candies (Maine Potato Needhams) around here, but this was a new one for me. A little research, along with the reader-submitted comment ("Mother made this when we couldn't afford store bought candy"), helped provide a little. Roll the dough out on waxed paper sprinkled with powdered sugar. Spread the peanut butter over the top of the dough.