Obviously as the holidays near, you expected even more Sweet Potato-Palooza, right? Well, never one to disappoint, here is the latest Palooza installment.
Sweet Potato Biscuits
1-3/4 c. all-purpose flour
2 T. light-brown sugar
1/8 t. allspice
1/8 t. ground cloves
2-1/2 t. baking powder
1 t. fine sea salt
1/2 t. baking soda
6 T. chilled unsalted butter, cut into pieces
3/4 c. chilled sweet-potato puree
1/3 c. buttermilkIn a large bowl, whisk together the flour, light-brown sugar, spices baking powder, salt and baking soda. In a food processor with blade attachment, add dry ingredients and cut in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse meal, with some pea-sized lumps of butter remaining.(Don’t over process!) In a medium bowl, whisk together the sweet-potato puree and buttermilk; add butter/flour mixture and stir quickly until combined. (Again, do not over-mix.)
Turn out the dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead very gently until the dough comes together but is still slightly lumpy and crumbly. If the dough is too sticky, work in up to 1/4 cup additional flour. Shape into a disk, and pat to an even 1-inch thickness. With a floured 2-inch biscuit cutter, cut out the biscuits as close together as possible. Gather the scraps, and repeat to cut out more biscuits – do not reuse scraps more than once.
Preheat the oven to 425°F, with a rack on lower shelf. Butter an 8-inch cake pan.
You don't have to tell me twice to butter a pan.
Arrange biscuits snugly in pan (to help them stay upright). Brush biscuits with melted butter. Bake until golden, rotating once, 20 to 24 minutes.
I combined two recipes for these holiday themed biscuits—one from Country Living and one from The Urban Spork. Thanks for the ideas because I can safely say that I NEVER would have thought to have put sweet ‘taters in biscuits.
Seriously, these are absolutely delicious!!!!!
We are having these for breakfast during the Thanksgiving holiday. Options: stuff it with a local pork sausage patty or lather it with butter and homemade Blackberry-Thyme jam (or live on the edge and do both!).
Have a great couple of days preparing for the Thanksgiving feast!
That’s a sweet potato recipe I would enjoy 9as you know I don’t like the sweet stuff). I can imagine all sorts of goodies to go with them. I’m going to have to make these and not tell my baby boy…hehe, bet he’d eat sweet potatoes then!
Hope you can sneak some in. Maybe you can tell Baby Boy that they are pumpkin?????? I had a leftover one this morning with pumpkin butter. Delish! Have a great holiday, Rhonda!
These look quite lovely and delicious – I can just taste these with a pat of melting butter! YUM!
These look delicious! I’ve had at a friends house ham on mini sweet potato biscuits and it was one of the tastiest small bites I’ve ever had! Happy Thanksgiving!
Those biscuits looks perfect! I’ve been wanting to make sweet potato biscuits forever and if this is how they look, I will concider it a success!!!