DIY Old Fashioned POTATO CANDY & Irish Potatoes Taste Test 

My grandmother and I used to make potato candy (pinwheels) together, when I was younger. We would make it durring Christmas time, doing batches of red and then green. She passed over a year ago and I miss her terribly..... this was a real treat today, in everyway. Great Video! Much Love 😁💚

A piece of potato candy and a slice of beef fudge...you've got a whole meal! lol

in germany especially in the dbr where marzipan was too expensive, they take potato, mash it, mix it with sugar and some water, boil it, and add bitter almond flavour, and let it cool down. to make fake marzipan. looks similar

I'd be tempted to fill the spirals with an unsweetened chocolate ganache so that the sugar of the candy would be offset by the bitterness.

Real Potato candy doesn't taste like coconut! The peanut butter one is what it's supposed to taste like! I am 60 years old, been eating it since I was a little boy!

Similar to Scottish Macaroons which are made with mashed potato and icing sugar. Roll the mix into balls and cover in melted chocolate and then dusted in toasted coconut. Also, in Scotland we have "Lucky Tatties" which are like flat versions of the sweets you tasted today. They're made with cassia and dusted in cinnamon. Back in the 50s and 60s they would contain a toy hidden in the filling. No toy nowadays though.

In Germany, we have something that looks a bit similar, but it's actually made of Marzipan and is usually eaten around Christmas time :D

Hi Emmy, I liked your potato candy. I’ve never had any or heard of it before, but it looked good to the taste so I made some. I have not tried it, I have just finished rolling it up and placing it in the fridge. I used a larger potato than u suggested, and it made a huge serving of potato dough. I had too much left over. I will let ya know the the outcome of the taste test when the fridge does it part. I used peanut butter as the filling. Mmmmm it’s Gooood!

you can add a couple tablespoons of cocoa powder to the first amount of powdered sugar that you add to the potatoes. it doesn't change the texture but it does offset the sweetness a bit and make for a reese cup vibe

I grew up in Philly, so I make Irish potatoes every year. In fact, there is literally a batch in my kitchen on a sheet pan which I just finished rolling out about 20 minutes ago. As I was rolling them, I started wondering if you made a video of it. I’m so happy you made one.

In Germany we have a traditional candy called "Marzipankartoffeln" which are looking just like those Irish Potatoes but they are made of marzipan. I need to try those Irish ones, they sound delicious.

When I was a child (I'm now 65) my Mother and Aunt made a version of the "potato" ones. Instead of adding vanilla extract, they would add peppermint extract. They would roll the candy mix into balls and dip in chocolate. A year ago as a tribute to them both (they are both gone now) I tried to make the same thing they did. Mine sure came close to theirs. Just have to get a better chocolate for dipping them in. Thanks for a great video Emmy.

I’m going to share this video with some people I know who keep super strict kosher for Passover rules, as these candies can work well for them to make and enjoy: no flour, no leavening agents. I bet they’d like it!

I can picture cinnamon in the peanut butter candies. In the 70s there was a brand of flavored peanut butter called Koogle. I loved all the flavors: chocolate, cinnamon, banana and vanilla.

They look exactly like the “Marzipan Kartoffeln” (marzipan potatoes) in Germany. They are made of marzipan are also coverd in cinamon and are eaten around christmas time🤗

i had no idea this recipe was irish. i am born and raised in montréal (franco) and my grandmother would make these ! 'bonbons aux patates' :D ! wow, such a nice memory for me. thanks for the video !

Best regards from Ireland. Roasted potatoes mixed with butter and as a kid I took out my roast potato insides, mixed them with meat, butter and carrots and whatever else was on my plate and stuffed as much as I could back into the roast potato. This isn't a traditional thing, it's just what I did as a kid playing with my food and it's delicious. The now stuffed roast potato I then ate like you would a burger and it was awesome. Plus the extra bit of roast potato that couldn't fit back in when mixed with butter and the other ingredients on my plate was also great too. Again, this was me as a kid playing with my food here in Ireland. Nothing special about it. Great videos. I don't know if I have ever had any of these foods mentioned in this video, but I might try them sometime in the future if I remember to. Take care and God bless from county Cork (yes, I know that's one letter misspelling away from meaning something else, lol) , in the Republic of Ireland.

Everytime I’m upset, I can always tune into an Emmy video and she can always brighten my day with her positivity and light.

Potato candy is such a great memory for me. For Christmas, we would always go to my grandma's house to bake/cook. We always made potato candy with peanut butter and cinnamon glass candy.

We used to make the potato-like candies when I was a kid in the 60s. I like sculptting them into realistic russet potato shapes and carefully shading them with cinnamon.

Lived in South Jersey my whole life & also thought they were everywhere! Grew up eating & making these 😍 🥔

I grew up in Indiana, w/ a grandma from Kentucky, and other family friends from Kentucky & Tennessee. They were always bringing us homemade potato candy, along w/ other homemade candies, at Christmas time. My mom would also make it sometimes. In recent years I've been trying to make it myself, here in Texas (where nobody knows about it). I hadn't seen the little "baked potatos" until a couple days ago. TFS

My goodness! I am glad I found this. My papa would always make this for Christmas and I had to ask him how to make it. He just told me and I had to figure it out on my own. Now I will update the way I make them and even make the ones that look like potatoes! This is fantastic. I am also not a big fan of peanut butter any more but I love it in this candy.

Fudge Kitchen! They're from my hometown of Cape May, NJ! :)

Notatoes?

I wish I had thought to send you an Idaho potato candy bar. Again they are mostly marshmallow, coconut, and chocolate. Maybe next year😉

My mother always used everything. When she had some mashed potatoes left over, she would make potato cakes/fritters or these Peanut Butter Potato candies. We loved these so much.

Man, my grandma used to make potato candy every year for Thanksgiving and Christmas. This video brought back some good memories with my grandma.

💜 the entire video, but that ending had me 😂😂😂!

We also have the Oh Ryan's Irish Potatoes in Maryland. I never realized they weren't nationwide. Emme have you had Berger Cookies? I feel like I've seen you try them. But I'm not certain. They are from Maryland. I don't think they are sold in many other states. Maybe bordering ones....I would gladly send you a package.

This video is proof positive that you cannot judge a recipe by it's contents. I'm glad you did both versions.

I have been making potato candy, around Christmas time for years. My kids love it. I add cinnamon to my potato mixture. I have used a peanut butter Nutella mixture before.

How would the potato candy taste with speculoos cookie butter rolled inside I wonder...

I ve never seen those before...had no idea. Thanx for showing me sth new Emmy That was kinda cool and really looked like potatoes...lol Kisses from Greece

one of my favorite channels! keep up the good work Emmy!

Great video! I grew up in the Philly area and at 48 just realized this year Irish Potatoes aren't a thing everywhere! They appear in grocery stores and other places around St. Patrick's Day every year...LOVE the Oh Ryan's!! I make my own with butter, cream cheese, vanilla, powdered sugar, sweetened coconut flakes- then rolled into the little "potatoes" and rolled in or put in a bag of cinnamon. I found that putting them on a cookie sheet with a squared wire grid over wax paper or paper towels after the cinnamon works well for getting rid of the excess cinnamon. Just pick up the cookie sheet a bit and drop or tap it on the counter, turning the candies a few times as you do it. They might get slightly beat up, but that just gives them some character like potatoes anyway :) Or you can put them in a stainless sieve and give them a little shake! They end up tasting like the packaged ones but you can have them anytime and they are super easy and delicious! No baking required, just put in airtight container in fridge!

This is my all time favorite candy ever. My mom made it growing up, and I make it now. I use a small potato, powdered sugar, vanilla, and peanut butter.

The fondant ones you made yourself seem very much alike the marzipan potatoes eaten here when Sinterklaas is coming around: almond play-doh that is just too sweet to swallow.....but somehow it's really popular here in The Netherlands. Come to think of it: I might recall you doing an Emmy Eats The Netherlands video, which had those mazipan potatoes in it.....now I have to check your playlist :-) Thank you for this wonderful video!! You gave me the perfect recipe to make for my nephew's upcoming birthday!!

As a kid a friends Aunt would make these for us all the time, God bless that woman. The longer you lave them in the fridge the more that super sweetness will temper.

Potato candy has been a holiday staple in my family for decades. I usually don't admit that there's potato in when sharing it with others.

they look like something here we have in Australia called ‘Candy Spuds’ (Spuds is a slang term we call potatoes) except they are only rolled in cocoa powder, not cinnamon

Thank you for not making me feel weird about hating peanut butter. I really hate it. If the sweetness bothers you with the nutella, why not use a bittersweet type of chocolate, maybe dark? Or use less sugar in the potato thing. I love sweets and I usually don't think anything I'd too sweet, and I have had a lot of sweets lol. My favorite chocolate os white chocolate which I heard was the sweetest chocolate, idk. But I make a frosting out of it and its so delicious! And its not too rich or sweet! And tastes so much better than any store bought frosting!

My Mom just made the potato candy pinwheels for Christmas this year. (2019) She actually makes it every year to go with her homemade black walnut fudge. So Delicious!!!

In Germany we have candy potatoes too, little marzipan balls rolled in cocoa and cinnamon. They're called "Marzipankartoffeln" (which just means 'marzipan potatoes') and around Christmas you can buy them in every supermarket. I actually thought about sending you some, but it's not the season right now. And they just taste like marzipan with a bit of cocoa and cinnamon, so you might just make them yourself. I loved to play with them as a kid :) de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marzipankartoffel

I'm from South jersey and I thought they were everywhere too😂

Homemade "Irish potatoes" are much better! The recipe couldn't be easier either. You just combine butter, cream cheese, coconut, and powdered sugar and then roll them in cinnamon. My mom and I used to make them every year growing up. So delicious and creamy plus you can control the amount of sweetness you add. I think you would enjoy this much more Emmy rather than the overly sweet pre-made stuff!

I love Irish potatoes!!! I grew up in Philadelphia, and we would buy them every year around St. Patrick's Day! I have made a homemade version of them, and they come out really well.

POTATO CANDY!!! Oh, my goodness, this brings back such wonderful memories of my Granny's kitchen (or sometimes ours) when I was growing up. We only made this once a year, at Christmas time, and it was absolutely hands-down my favorite of all the Christmas goodies she and my mom (sometimes with my help) made. (Rum balls -- ugh!!!) When I was ten we discovered that my mom, my brother and I all had chronic hypoglycemia (considering all the goodies my mom always made, it's not surprising), and we had to cut out all sugar from our diets. (Although I didn't comply all that well until I was a young adult and realized I really did feel better without sugar in my life.) My mom still has Granny's recipe somewhere, but we never, ever make it, of course. When I was in my mid-20s I worked at a fancy women's dress shop, and for Christmas that year we all brought treats to share on Christmas Eve. I made this. And yep, I ate some. But I couldn't stand the sweetness of it anymore! Having gone that long without eating much sugar, it was just too grossly sweet. I was so sad! So I've never made it again -- but it's been so fun to watch this video and remember so fondly those times making this with my Granny. She passed away 11 years ago at the ripe old age of 95, and I miss her like crazy. Thank you for sparking such wonderful, warm memories! (BTW, I grew up in West Texas, and Granny came from East Texas ... I'm wondering if this recipe is a Southern thing, or if she just picked it up somewhere along the way and made it a tradition...)

I'm from Ireland and living here since i was born, am i the only Irish that have never heard or seen these before???

Yo props to Katie for coming through!! We wouldn't have this wonderful Emmy video without you. Thank you Katie!

The potato / sugar mixture is also the base for Scottish macaroon bars. You cut the candy into bars, dip in melted chocolate then cover with toasted coconut.

South Jersey girl here . Didn't know Irish Potatoes were just regional. The Oryans are all over the supermarkets this time of year. My grandmother made similar Peanut Butter Pinwheels also. Similar taste is white chocolate Reeses. Thank you for helping me think of a nice childhood memory.

I live in South Jersey...love them!

You may want to trycto mix the sugar with potato starch the next time, to make it less sweet

Yes potato candy is life!! we in the Midwest were always told never throw away leftover mashed potatoes make candy yum yum

I learned something new today. I m from the Philadelphia area and I thought everyone had Irish potatoes at this time of year. But it makes sense that it’s only around this area. Most of the Irish immigrants came here. My great grandparents came here from Ireland.

Someone needs to make an Emmy "Hmm!" supercut (supercute?)

yayyy!!! happy st.paddys day!!💚☘🍀

In Germany we have marzipan potatoes, i.e. formed into balls or potato shape and rolled in cocoa powder. Quite popular during Christmas season. :)

Happy St. Patricks day Emmy! Great video

Emmy can you try and make a candy called TABLET? I think its a Scottish candy. It is soooooooo good!

Anyone else tell Emmy she's a beautiful lovely back?😄

Ahh potato candy. My great granny made a version of this--- another poster described it as "mock marzipan" and that is how I've had it. She would make little shapes (so lemon flavor, shaped like a lemon slice, almond flavor like a little almond etc). Later I had a neighbor who made the spiral kind. It's always fun to see if anyone can guess what it's made from. You can change this a bit to make some nice smooth truffles as well.

This was so wonderful to see! My grandmother taught me to make this exactly how you did, but she always made hers larger and more ovoid than circular. She told me that her mother made them, and her mother before that made them. She said it was something that they had been making for generations. This made me feel at home again. Thank you Emmy!

candy in package: contains no actual potato emmys recipes: 1st ingredient, potato

I have never ever never in my life ever tasted anything that was too sweet. I simply don't understand what people mean when they say that.

Aahh! So nostalgic! I remember making these as a kid around this time of year. So cute, fun, and yummy~

I live in eastern Maryland, and my grandparents lived in western Maryland, and close to where they lived was an Amish market, and once a year they would take me there. Last time I was there it was like, three years ago, and if I can remember correctly, as soon as you would walk in it was an antique store, then a cheese, meat, and produce shop, then a sit down restaurant, and finally a homemade candy shop. I would always get homemade chocolates that I believe are called bull’s eyes (chocolate shell with a peanut butter inside) but my grandparents and brother would always get that potato candy, and as the picky kid I was I was like, “EW WHAT? POTATOES IN CANDY? NASTY!”

what an awful day I've had, until now 😀

☘Happy Saint Patricks day☘ bob

💕 Great video ! All of them are so interesting ! Thanks, Emmy ! 👍👋

Oh the fudge kitchen! I always pop in there when I'm on the boards in Ocean City.

I'm from Virginia and I see them at the gas station Wawa seasonally

I'm Irish, and live in Ireland, and I've never seen these. Amazing how much Americans are obsessed with Irish they will even invent Irish things! Insane. They look nice tho

When I was a kid I loved Irish potatoes. Looked toward to eating them every year. Then one year, I had like 10 Irish potatoes in a row. Got such a bad stomach ache from it, and haven't eaten one since. Lol. I didn't know they were a regional thing. You learn something new everyday! Thanks for the video Emmy! Can't wait to see the next one!

In Germany we have little Potato-Candy made from Marzipan. These are very popular around Christmas :)

All I can think of is the prank Jeana pulled on Jesse with these 😂

OH MY GOD I WORK AT THE FUDGE KITCHEN!!

In Scotland we use same dough, shape into bars and cover in dark chocolate and dip in toasted coconut (dessicated) They are known as macaroon bars.

Hi, Emmy! My family is Irish/German, but leaning more towards Irish. We make Irish Potato Candy every single Christmas! It's so incredibly sweet, but it reminds me of my grandma and my childhood so I always make it! Mmmmmm. It's so easy to make!

"chocolate hazelnut spread" - aka ; NUTELLA

I once bought potato candy at an Asian market in New Orleans. It was literally just pieces of potato that were candied. Think candied ginger, except... potatoes. They were... different?

The noise it made when you cut the candy was the best!

Never heard of these! They sound interesting!! Great video as always Emmy!!💜💜💜 Bob!!

Literally just watched a chopped episode and they had to use these 😭

“Bob!” :P

I've made them today. I.AM.BLOWN.AWAY! This is so tasty, I dont have enough words in my vocabulary to describe how tasty they are. Everyone should try these! :D

Bob! I LOVE homemade potato candy, I've had the Sea's kind. Sooo yummy. I would love to diy these with you!! Thanks Emmy

Am I the only one that feels like they've seen this episode from Emmy before...?? 🤔

At first i think they are Marzipan potatos XD

Grew up making these ...love them !

I’m gonna have to try these with my littles. They’d love this!! And I liked the look of your potato looking ones best. Soooo cute!!

Bob!

The Game Grumps also call their viewers lovelyz. I enjoy that two channels I watch call me that.

I had some candy in NY called sponge candy. I would love to see it made. I really enjoy your presentations. Bravo!

My mom used to make the traditional peanut butter potato candy when I was young! We're Canadian ^^

You didn’t warn people about the absolutely insane amount of powdered sugar you need to have on hand when making potato candy. We’ve run out of sugar in the middle more than once. Normally we make it at Christmas.

Rip to the mashed potato at the very end. "Here lies Sir. Potato. 2018~3-17-2018"

My grandmother and I made potato candy a lot when I was a kid. Sometimes she’d put some homemade orange marmalade in the center. The slight tartness cut the sweetness a little and was delicious! I love the peanut butter version as well!

Love potato candy! This was my southern side of the family's favorite Christmas tradition.