I was raised on Potato candy and made it for my children and grandchildren. We would put butter, vanilla, mashed potato, powdered sugar and a little milk. At Christmas we would put red or green in it before rolling it out. Decorative for the holiday!!

I am from Washington, Pa. & can remember back as far as 5 years old watching my mother making this candy & I have passed the recipe on to my daughter & grand children, they all love it. I am now 50 years old.

This is my favorite recipe of all time. As a kid we used to make it whenever there were leftover potatoes from dinner - either boiled or baked. My sister and I always made rolls of potato candy for Girl Scout bake sales. We just wrapped a 3-inch length of slices in cellophane and sold them for a quarter. They were often the first candy to sell out. We always used peanut butter. The sweeter spreads made an already VERY sweet candy TOO sweet for us anyway. My granddaughter puts the potato in the microwave to cook. I like to use a small food processor for the first part. When it gets too stiff for the blades to manage I scrape it out onto the waxed paper. I roll it a bit thinner than 1/4-inch. The other day I had 2 leftover purple potatoes that were each about the size of a walnut. The result was really yummy lavender colored candy. BTW love the bittersweet chocolate idea. I'll have to try it.

I have never seen this recipe before, however my Granny use to make it all the time one of my childhood favorites! thanks for the awesome memories this brought back!

I'm from WVa. and my mother always made this at Christmas. Needless to say, she passed it on to me and now my children make it. We always boil the potato, mash it with a fork drain it well and keep adding the powdered sugar until you can form a ball and roll it out. The more dryer the potato the less powered sugar you will need. I just stumbled on this site looking for no bake oatmeal cookies. Needless to say I have now will have it in my favorites.

Me and my dad made this for a school bake sale for our summer class trip and we put food coloring in the potatoes to make them different colors. They sold out very fast can't wait for my girls to get older so I can do it with them.

Once again I two thought that my family made it up and everyone that I talked to looks at me like I have two eyes but its soo good. I grow up on it as well have to make a lot at Christmas time!

My Grandma who was born in 1910 used to make this recipe. I loved it as a little girl. She made it around Christmas time. I have been searching for this recipe a long time. My Mom didn't remember it had mashed potatoes in it. But Grandma would color it and add some kind of flavoring to it. She would wrap the whole log and chill it before she sliced it.

My grandmother from Va always made this potato candy for Christmas, but I have not had it in 20 years. I needed a fun no bake recipe for a children's workshop and thought of this...but...didn't have the recipe. Thank you so much for sharing this recipe!!! I know that the children will love making and eating this delicious candy!

I also make this for Christmas. You can add cinnamon or any extract to 'dough' before mixing. I have made banana, lemon, vanilla, cinnamon, peppermint and orange-to name a few.. If you make several flavors at one time color code them by adding a drop of food color.. Ex. Cin-red, peppermint-green... Also makes it more festive for Christmas.. Enjoy

I have not tried this recipe yet, but I remember friends of the family making this in Pennington Gap, Virginia about 50 years ago! I thought it was yummy then, and can't wait to try it!

My gosh this sweet potato peanut butter roll is the bomb. I have been cooking for 25 years never heard of the recipe with potato and peanut butter. I guess I will just have to try this one diff.Ingredients but im sure it will be just as good.

My mother made this candy for us as children. It was passed down to her by her mother who called it "depression" candy. It is rich, good with crunchy peanut butter.

I am 46 and my mother made this for us kids years ago, and we (me and my sisters) still make it today we are from Maryland and when we moved to TN. no one had ever heard of it. I always make at Christmas time and i love making it for people who has never heard of it. I didn't think my family invented it but I did think it was a northern recipe. I also add vanilla in mine.

Thank you Dana for clarifying HOW to make this candy. I read all of the comments, and you are the only one who stated how to prepare the potato (I would have considered instant, or even left over's from dinner...but this would be a NO-NO!) I do like the idea of variations, whether it be coconut, Chocolate, or something else. My son LOVES Chunky peanut butter, I will try to make it with the Chunky kind. Does anyone know if a certain type of Potato is better to use? (Russer/Baking/White/Yellow Gold)...and do you think that this could possibly ever be made using a SWEET POTATO? Please comment! Thanks!!!!!