#2254 - Chocolate Potato Candy

(by Shirley McNevich)

1 stick softened butter
1 - 8oz. Philadelphia cream cheese (softened)
2 tsp. vanilla
1 - 14oz. bag Baker's angelflake coconut
2lbs. Domino's powdered sugar
1 TBSP Hershey's cocoa
2 TBSP white sugar
1 TBSP Hershey's cocoa
1 or 2 tsp. cinnamon
a few coarsely chopped walnuts

In a mixer add butter and cream cheese--beat. Add vanilla--beat. Slowly add powdered sugar--beat. Remove bowl from mixer--add coconut--stir with a wooden spoon. Roll the mixture into small potato shaped pieces. In a bowl add white sugar, cocoa and cinnamon--stir. Roll each potato ball into the cocoa mixture and place them in a glass dish. Refrigerate until cold and keep covered. Optional--press a few coarsely chopped walnuts into each potato ball to look like the eyes on a potato.