Chocolate Covered Potato Eggs

I remember my grandmother making these in her Kitchen they are really pretty darn tasty! I was watching foodnetwork and Paula Deen recently and saw her making these and it brought back a ton of fun easter memories for me. I put the recipe into my recipe book and Hope I don't lose it again! Grandma has been gone over 18 years now and it just seems like yesterday that we were sitting in her kitchen making treats. Chocolate covered potato eggs, salted nut rolls and many others.

Chocolate Covered Potato Eggs

Recipe courtesy Paula Deen

Ingredients
2 medium potatoes (2 cups total when mashed)
1 stick butter
2 (1-pound) boxes confectioners' sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups melted chocolate
DirectionsBoil and mash potatoes, then cool to room temperature. Add butter to potatoes. Mix potatoes, sugar, and vanilla extract, and chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour. The mixture should be the consistency of marzipan. Divide into 16 equal pieces and roll into egg shapes. Freeze them for 30 minutes. Dip pieces into melted chocolate to cover, transfer to a rack for the chocolate to harden. Serve cold.
Yields 16 eggs
Cook time 10 minutes