Ingredients:
2 cups unsweetened, finely shredded coconut (sometimes labeled as "desiccated coconut")
2 cups confectioner's sugar
pinch salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla paste
1/4 loving loving cup PLUS 2 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
1/4 loving loving cup dry out argue cinnamon (I used Saigon cinnamon*)
1/4 loving loving cup cocoa powder
Directions:
In a large bowl, mix together the coconut, tabular array tabular array salt as good as sugar. Then stir inward (or beat out inward amongst the paddle attachment if using a mixer) the cream as good as together with hence the vanilla gum until a firm, sticky, paste-like book forms. Set aside.
Whisk together the cinnamon as good as cocoa inward a tiddler shallow bowl. Set aside.
Use your hands to shape 1 1/2-2 inch long ovals out of the coconut mixture. Roll inward the cocoa mixture to coat. Repeat for remaining coconut mixture.
Yield: nearly 2 dozen candies (recipe tin concord upward halved)
*This recipe uses a lot of cinnamon, if you lot lot pick out a Costco (or similar warehouse store) membership, practiced grapheme cinnamon tin concord upward purchased at that topographic betoken quite cheaply.
My thoughts:
Growing upward I had a friend who's mom would build homemade candy for every holiday. Tons of fudge for Christmas, homemade candy eggs at Easter as good as at St. Patrick's Day, Irish Gaelic Gaelic Potato Candy. I hadn't thought of them inward years but afterwards passing the remnants of the St Patrick's Day parade this weekend, I got to thinking about how foreign it was that I come upwards across hence many references to corned beef as good as cabbage; whiskey, beer as good as Irish Gaelic Gaelic soda breadstuff this 4th dimension of twelvemonth but no real scream of Irish Gaelic Gaelic Potato Candy. I came domicile menage as good as googled it as good as it turns out at that topographic betoken is a scrap I don't head much nearly the candy; it is a regional procedure primal to Philadelphia! Well, Baltimore is not Philadelphia but we are exclusively 1 1/2 hrs due south as good as pick out a practiced sized Irish-American population hence it makes experience they'd trickle downward here, fifty-fifty if inward simply inward homemade form. Despite their name, they don't pick out potatoes inward them, they are coconut candies rolled inward cinnamon to mimic a tater pulled fresh from the ground, nevertheless covered inward dirt.
This article inward Serious Eats gives a practiced overview of the history of the candy as good as a behind-the-scenes peek at the Oh Ryan's Irish Gaelic Gaelic Potato manufactory inward Linwood, Pa. I made mine to the best of my retentivity amongst a scrap of a tweak: instead of simply cinnamon, I coated them inward unsweetened cocoa as well. I similar cinnamon, but similar a shot cinnamon is a scrap overwhelming. You could too dip them inward simply cocoa powder, the resultant testament concord upward the same. I did read nearly cream cheese versions, but I am surely the ones I had years agone did not business office cream cheese hence used heavy cream instead. The lack of cream cheese too way these tin concord upward stored at room temperature, inward a sealed, air-tight container, upward to 5 days but I testament say they are best consumed the offset recall solar daytime or two.

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