Irish Potato Candies: If You Like Mounds Candy Bars, You'll Love These Easy Little Treats

Irish potato candies may look like adorable little potatoes, but they’re actually so much sweeter. Lauren Volo/TNS

Unless you’re from Pennsylvania, you’ve probably never heard of Irish potato candy. I didn’t know what they were, but assumed they were candy made from potatoes. Wrong!

Irish potato candies may look like adorable little potatoes, but they’re no-cook coconut and cream cheese candies with a coating of ground cinnamon—essentially the coconut equivalent of chocolate truffles.

Not So Irish

Sweet Irish potato candy doesn’t have roots in Ireland, but instead was created in Pennsylvania—more specifically, in the Philadelphia area.