Sweet Potato Biscuits. This recipe makes a wonderfully light and fluffy biscuit. A great way to use up those leftover mashed sweet potatoes. Makes a delicious sandwich with a slice ham, or simply topped with butter.

Enjoy with homemade apple or honey butter! Biscuits can be a finicky business. If the butter isn't cold enough and if the liquid ingredients aren't right, the biscuits will come out dense and flat. You can cook Sweet Potato Biscuits using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Sweet Potato Biscuits

Prepare 1/2 cup of sweet potato, cooked and mashed.
Prepare 1 1/2 cup of flour.
It's 2 tsp of baking powder.
Prepare 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
You need 1/2 tsp of salt.
It's 1/2 tbsp of sugar.
Prepare 6 tbsp of cold butter, cut in pieces.
You need 1/2 cup of milk.

This is sadly the pitfall of many sweet potato biscuit recipes. While the sweet potato flavors these biscuits, many recipes don't account. Place a large cast-iron skillet in the oven to preheat. Combine the self-rising flour, salt and apple pie spice in a food processor with several pulses.

Sweet Potato Biscuits step by step

Pre- heat oven to 425.
Combine dry ingredients in bowl.
Cut butter into dry ingredients using a pastry cutter or two knifes until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients. Add milk and mashed sweet potato all at once. Mix together until stiff dough forms. Add a little more milk if necessary. I used a large spoon and my hands to mix it!.
Drop by 1/4 c. onto non stick baking sheet. Makes 10-12.
Bake 10 to 12 min.

In another bowl, combine the egg, sweet potatoes and milk. Stir into crumb mixture just until moistened. Biscuits are a way of life in the South, and every home cook has her favorite version. Here in Virginia, old fashioned sweet potato biscuits date all of the way back to our founding fathers. Make the dough: In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and baking soda.