Potato Bounty
"Delicious - but only if you've got a VERY sweet tooth!"
- Ready In:
- 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 4
- Yields:
-
50-60 squares
ingredients
- 3⁄4 cup cold mashed potatoes
- 4 1⁄2 cups icing sugar
- 4 cups desiccated coconut
- 1⁄4 cup cocoa powder (bitter, not sweetened)
directions
- Mash the icing sugar into the potatoes. It looks impossible but it will work! I found it easiest to use my hands, like I was making pastry.
- Add the coconut and the cocoa powder.
- Push into a rectangular dish/pan and flatten out until it's about 1/2 inch thick.
- Chill in the fridge.
- Cut into squares and serve - sparingly! it's very, very sweet.
- I called it Potato Bounty, because the taste reminds me of the Bounty bar you can buy in the uk - don't know if it sells in the States too.
- Next time I might add chopped glace cherries, maybe some nuts too.
- 5 minutes squidging time, about an hour chilling. No cooking.
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Reviews
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very similar to macaroon (a traditional Scottish sweet not to be confused with macaroons), where you combine the potato, coconut & sugar, then once set, dip in chocolate & coat in coconut
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Alice Snowden
Bradford, West Yorkshire
I live in northern England. This is the first recipe site I've looked at since I started losing weight last year. Lost 6 stone (84lbs) now, with about 20lbs to go. Here is temptation ha!ha! but also some very healthy options.
I am an Anglican priest, working as a Vicar in a small parish in a moderate, ordinary part of Bradford.
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