Coconut Mashed Potato Candy #sp5

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup simply potatoes traditional mashed potatoes, cold
• 4 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
• 4 cups shredded coconut
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 4 ounces semisweet chocolate or 4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped

Recipe

• 1 combine cold mashed potatoes and confectioner's sugar in a large bowl. thoroughly combine. mixture will begin as a stiff dough and loosen up as the sugar mixes with the potatoes. add the coconut and vanilla and mix thoroughly.
• 2 form into triangular peaks, using about 1 rounded teaspoon of mixture for each. put on waxed paper lined cookie sheet. let dry for 20 minutes.
• 3 melt chocolate in bowl over simmering water (or in microwave in one minute intervals until melted).
• 4 dip base of each candy in chocolate. let stand on waxed paper to set.
• 5 store in covered tin in the refrigerator.