Irish Potatoes Candy
Irish Potatoes is a traditional candy recipe from Philadelphia. This no-bake candy recipe has just 6 ingredients and is a super simple St. Patrick’s Day dessert.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 36 1x
- Category: Dessert
Ingredients
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- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 8 ounces softened cream cheese
- 8 tablespoons butter
- 5 cups sweetened flake coconut
- 1 and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 tablespoons ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Cream together butter and cream cheese until well mixed.
- Mix in vanilla.
- Add powdered sugar, 1/2 at a time.
- Mix until forms a ball or is just mixed. Don’t keep creaming it after it is incorporated.
- Use a spoon of spatula and fold in coconut.
- Put cinnamon in small bowl.
- Shape coconut mixture into roughly shaped 1 inch balls.
- Roll in cinnamon.
- Place on parchment paper covered cookie sheet.
- Chill.
- Keep refrigerated.
- Makes approximately 36 Irish potatoes.
Notes
A note on shaping the candy: I shape a bunch of them using about a tablespoon of mixture for each one. Then wash and dry my hands. Next, I shake them in a bowl of cinnamon one at a time. Then I drop them into a 16-ounce glass one at a time and shake them in the bottom of the glass to shake off excess cinnamon and smooth out their shape.
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