Sweet Potato Biscuits

Preparation info
  • Makes

    12

    Biscuits
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Lighter, Quicker, Better: Cooking for the Way We Eat Today

By Richard Sax and Marie Simmons

Published 2000

  • About

Handle this dough with an especially light touch for flaky, tender biscuits. Mashed baked sweet potatoes help to make the biscuits deliciously moist. You’ll need two large sweet potatoes to have enough mashed.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups unbleached (all-purpose) flour
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 425°F.
  2. Combine the flour, baking powder, brown sugar, and salt in a large bowl and stir to blend. Add the butter and cut in until crumbled.
  3. Stir the sweet potatoes and milk together until blended. Add to the flour mixture and mix with a fork until dough begins to hold together. Add additional milk, 1 tablespoon at a time or as needed,