With Christmas looming ever nearer, I wanted to make handmade gifts this year and have been experimenting with different edible treats. These are my take on a recipe given to me by one of the team I work with - I realise making chocolates using potato is a little odd but these genuinely taste amazing and no-one has been able to guess the 'secret' ingredient. Because each potato is different, I have left the amounts for a lot of the ingredients blank so you can achieve the flavour you like best, just add slowly and keep tasting. I gave a bag of these to one of my friends as part of her birthday and she loved them which is always good!
Ingredients:
1 large potato
Icing sugar
5 bars dark chocolate
orange extract
vanilla extract
cinnamon
coffee extract
Method:
Peel and chop the potato into small pieces then boil until soft. Place in a blender and puree until smooth and silky. Slowly add in the icing sugar until the mixture becomes reasonably stiff like whipped cream. Separate out into 3 bowls and add orange extract to one, vanilla to another and coffee and cinnamon to the last.
Beat the flavourings into the mixture adding more as required. Add a little more icing sugar until the mix becomes a paste. Place in the fridge for half an hour or so until it can be moulded.
Melt the chocolate and form small bite-sized balls of the mixture then dip each one into the melted chocolate, making sure they are well coated. I then placed them into petit four cases but you could set them on a sheet of baking paper. Repeat until all of the mixture is used up then place in the fridge to set.
I left these plain but you could drizzle them with more melted chocolate or roll them in coconut or citrus zest.
When you make these, please take a picture and tag me using #diaryofadefectivehousewife
Thank you!
