Can you make potato candy with instant potatoes?!
Thanks for any help!
Answers: I know that making it out of an actual potato would be best, but is there a recipe for making it with instant potatoes? My step daughter wants to make it and I have no potatoes in the house and I really do not feel like packing up both of my kids and going out in the cold for a couple of potatoes.
Thanks for any help!
I would make mashed potatoes out of the flakes and then follow the recipe below. If you don't want it to be too - too sweet, I would make the mashed potatoes with a little less liquid than called for.
POTATO CANDY
1/2 cup mashed potatoes
powered sugar
peanut butter
Combine 1/2 cup mashed potatoes and powder sugar till is firm enough to roll. The mixture will become very wet; just keep adding powdered sugar. roll out on powdered sugar like noodles. Cover with peanut butter. Roll into jelly roll cut into small pieces.
Yum!!!
Sorry I can not help you. I have never heard of Potato Candy.
But I copied the recipe of the first ans. and will try it.
Thank you
I am a former chef and learned this from a kosher place I worked at, they made a suagr syrup with pure cane sugar, as it can not be beet sugar, add some corn syrup or glucose, and brought it to a boil and a temp of 220 d F on a candy thermometer.
Then added potato powder or flakes, the when cool add flavours like pure vanilla, rum or fruit extracts, kneading some powdered sugar into it (the texture should be almost like pie dough) so they could form small balls, then adding nuts or chopped fruits like glazed cherries and making the final shapes, chilling them and the dipping in pure chocolate, dark or milk is you choice, place yours on waxed paper.
Just make sure you melt your chocolate right not to hot and stir it for a few minutes off the heat to temper it before dipping the pieces, the amount is up to you for 24 small chocolates I would use 2 1/2 cups of water, 1 cup of sugar, 1/2 cup of corn syrup or 4 tablespoons of glucose, I buy my potato flakes at a bulk place by the pound, but one box of plain Ore-Ida non flavoured will do with about 2 cups of powdered sugar. As for your chocolate coating get as good as you can afford, it come out in the final product if it is not.
And do not refrigerate the final product, keep them in a sealed container at room tep after coating has solidified, or they will get a whitle spotty coating from the cocoa butter cooling to fast.