Irish White Patato Candy

Ingredients:
2 cups unsweetened, finely shredded kokosnoot (sometimes labeled equally "desiccated coconut")
2 cups confectioner's sugar
pinch salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla paste
1/4 loving cup PLUS 2 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
1/4 loving cup dry reason cinnamon (I used Saigon cinnamon*)
1/4 loving cup cocoa powder

Directions:

In a large bowl, mix together the coconut, tabular array salt as well as sugar. Then stir inward (or rhythm out inward alongside the paddle attachment if using a mixer) the cream as well as and thus the vanilla glue until a firm, sticky, paste-like volume forms. Set aside.

Whisk together the cinnamon as well as cocoa inward a minor shallow bowl. Set aside.

Use your hands to shape 1 1/2-2 inch long ovals out of the kokosnoot mixture. Roll inward the cocoa mixture to coat. Repeat for remaining kokosnoot mixture.

Yield: nearly 2 dozen candies (recipe tin hold upward halved)

*This recipe uses a lot of cinnamon, if you lot convey a Costco (or similar warehouse store) membership, proficient character cinnamon tin hold upward purchased at that topographic point quite cheaply.

My thoughts:

Growing upward I had a friend who's mom would brand homemade candy for every holiday. Tons of fudge for Christmas, homemade candy eggs at Easter as well as at St. Patrick's Day, Irish Gaelic Potato Candy. I hadn't idea of them inward years but later passing the remnants of the St Patrick's Day parade this weekend, I got to thinking about how strange it was that I come across thus many references to corned beef as well as cabbage; whiskey, beer as well as Irish Gaelic soda breadstuff this fourth dimension of twelvemonth but no existent scream of Irish Gaelic Potato Candy. I came dwelling household as well as googled it as well as it turns out at that topographic point is a argue I don't listen much nearly the candy; it is a regional process primal to Philadelphia! Well, Baltimore is non Philadelphia but nosotros are solely 1 1/2 hrs S as well as convey a proficient sized Irish-American population thus it makes feel they'd trickle downward here, fifty-fifty if inward only inward homemade form. Despite their name, they don't convey potatoes inward them, they are kokosnoot candies rolled inward cinnamon to mimic a tater pulled fresh from the ground, however covered inward dirt.

This article inward Serious Eats gives a proficient overview of the history of the candy as well as a behind-the-scenes peek at the Oh Ryan's Irish Gaelic Potato mill inward Linwood, Pa. I made mine to the best of my retentiveness alongside a fleck of a tweak: instead of only cinnamon, I coated them inward unsweetened cocoa equally well. I similar cinnamon, but immediately cinnamon is a fleck overwhelming. You could likewise dip them inward only cocoa powder, the resultant volition hold upward the same. I did read nearly cream cheese versions, but I am certain the ones I had years agone did non role cream cheese thus used heavy cream instead. The lack of cream cheese likewise agency these tin hold upward stored at room temperature, inward a sealed, air-tight container, upward to five days but I volition tell they are best consumed the kickoff hateful solar daytime or two.