CANDY MESS

My son called me Sunday and was asking me if I had ever made any Potato Candy. I told him no but I had heard of it. Potato Candy is nothing but Peanut Butter Roll the easy way.
So he began telling me how to make it. I got to laughing telling him there is no way you could use a 2lb. bag of powdered sugar in this. That is way to much sugar. So he told me to go try it. Now I just had a half of bag of sugar and I thought hay that will do. So I cooked me a "medium" potato as I said no way just one little small potato would work. We Ky. people like to make bigger batches of everything lol.
I took my potato, after it had cooked and took a hand potato masher and mashed it up then put it in a flat bowl to cool down and then started adding my powdered sugar. Ok, so what happened, the more sugar I added the more syrup I got.
Where was all of my sugar going to. lol. The potato began to turn to water and as I added the sugar it just got thinner and thinner. No wonder it called for a 2lb. bag of this sugar. So I just pitched it all in the garbage as guess what, I had put way to much potato in the bowl.
When it says a small potato it means just a tablespoon to start out with and that 2lb. bag of sugar, you will use it up quicker that you expect. You had better have 4 lbs. of sugar. lol.
 I told him to go to you tube and see how they were making it there. I learned real quick that one potato can sure go a long way in making candy.
 I have always made the cooked peanut butter roll and all that mixing with a hand mixer can sure get to you. No wonder they sell it for $10 to $12.00 a roll at these fund raisers. It is worth every penny of it.
 So I went today to get me some more powdered sugar but this time I got 4lbs. If I mess up I will have more sugar to add.
 But I am wondering just how many calories one bite of this candy will be. Just make sure you are not dieting as one piece will ruin a diet for two weeks. lol.
Look up a recipe for potato candy. It is real simple to make if you will follow directions and not be like me think I will just add just a little bit more of this and that......