Vegan Irish potatoes?
Posted by biodancer on Mar 12, 2008 · Member since Jul 2007 · 978 posts
Yes. I am one of those people who love Irish potatoes. Creamy, coconuty, cinnamon goodness. I assume they would be easy to veganize with just using tofutti cream cheese? I've never used this before so I was wondering if anyone has made Irish potatoes with this. Is tofutti the same consistancy as cream cheese or would I need add anything to it? I just don't want to waste the money by not using it correctly. Thanks!
Interesting. My father is an Irish-Catholic boy from South Philly and I don't recall him ever mentioning these. Maybe he just wasn't a fan. I'll have to ask him about them when I see him on St. Patrick's day.
Ask him, I bet he knows. Oh, and ask him if he went to St. Thomas Moore High School :)
Nope; the old man's never heard of the candy. It must be a more "recent" (last 50 years ;)) phenomenon. He attended Southeast Catholic High School.
I'm Irish and I have never heard of any of these things!
To make this even more confusing there is another potato candy made with actual potatoes. I don't think this one's Irish either. I had a recipe but I can't find it now. It sounded similar, but less tooth rotting than the Oh Ryan's kind.
I made these again this year and brought them to a pot luck. Big hit. If you make them small enough you can get 4-5 dozen out of one batch!
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