Dad's Potato Candy

Ingredients

• 6 cups confectioners' sugar as needed
• 1 cup peanut butter to taste
• 1  potatoes peeled
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 

Equipment

• bowl
• pot

Directions

1. Place potato into a pot and cover with salted water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until very tender, about 30 minutes.
2. Drain.
3. Transfer potato to a large bowl and mash until smooth. Stir vanilla extract into mashed potato.
4. Stir confectioners' sugar gradually into mashed potato until consistency is like cookie dough; add more confectioners' sugar if candy is too runny.
5. Sprinkle a large piece of waxed paper with confectioners' sugar and roll potato candy out into a rectangle 1/4 inch thick.
6. Spread peanut butter onto candy.
7. Roll candy and peanut butter into a tight spiral; wrap candy log in waxed paper. Refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour.
8. Cut into slices to serve.