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Candies for Everyone

Potato Candy Ingredients 1/2 cup mashed potatoes, cooled to room temperature 2 tablespoons salted butter, softened 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 6-8 cups powdered sugar plus extra for dusting 1/3 cup creamy peanut butter 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 inc...

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