A recipe for Sweet Potato Biscuits for #SundaySupper Fall Flavors! These light and flaky biscuits are flavored with pureed sweet potato for a delicious autumn addition to breakfast or brunch.
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Sunday Supper Movement
Today is my first post for the Sunday Supper Movement! My friend, Lauren of Sew You Think You Can Cook, has been a part of it for a few months and talked me into joining. Today’s theme is fall flavors.
Sweet Potato Biscuits
These Sweet Potato Biscuits are a wonderful breakfast or brunch addition for the upcoming holiday table. The buttery biscuit dough is filled with roasted and pureed sweet potato, cut into circles, and baked until light and golden.
I served the Sweet Potato Biscuits warm from the oven with this Cinnamon Maple Butter from Inspired by Charm. They would also be delicious simply with salted butter, honey, jam, or even as the base for a leftover Thanksgiving turkey breakfast sandwich.
To make the sweet potato puree (best done ahead of time to give it a chance to cool- don’t want to melt the butter in the biscuits!), preheat oven to 400˚F (200˚C). Place a large sweet potato on a baking sheet and pierce a few times with a fork. Bake in the preheated oven until tender all the way through, 45 minutes to 1 hour. Once cool enough to handle, cut in half, scoop out the flesh and place is a food processor, discarding the peel. Blend in the food processor until completely smooth, scraping down the sides as needed. Allow to cool to room temperature or refrigerate until needed.
The trick to creating light and flaky biscuits is only handle the dough as much as necessary. I used a dough blender to cut in the chilled and diced butter. You can also use two forks or the tips of your fingers. Just try to work as quickly as possible to keep the butter from melting.
Get the dough ready immediately after the butter has been incorporated. If you absolutely have to take a break, stick the dough in the refrigerator to keep the butter cold. The colder the butter, the flakier the biscuit. If the dough just won’t come together and is still too crumbly after lightly kneading, add an extra splash of buttermilk. If it is too wet to handle, add a little more flour.
When using a cookie cutter, cut straight down. Don’t twist. Twisting the dough will seal it and keep the biscuits from rising.
Looking for more sweet potato recipes?
Try my Goguma Mattang (Korean Caramelized Sweet Potatoes), Spiced Sweet Potato Fries with Maple Mustard Dipping Sauce, and Goguma Latte (Korean Sweet Potato Latte).
Check out what everyone else made this week!
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Sweet Potato Biscuits Recipe
Adapted from The Corner Kitchen
Sweet Potato Biscuits
Ingredients
- 3 cups (420 grams) all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons (20 grams) light brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon (10 grams) baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons (5 grams) salt
- 10 tablespoons (142 grams) unsalted butter chilled and diced, plus melted butter for brushing the tops
- 1 cup (230 grams) pureed sweet potato chilled
- 1/2 cup (120 ml) buttermilk cold
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425˚F (220˚C). Line a large baking sheet with parchment or lightly grease.
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, brown sugar, baking powder, and salt.
- Quickly cut in the chilled and diced butter using a dough blender, two forks, or your fingers until blended and no pieces are larger than a pea.
- Make a well in the center of the buttery mixture and add the sweet potato puree and buttermilk. Mix just until the dough comes together. If the mixture still won't come together, add a little more buttermilk a splash at a time. If the mixture is too wet, add a little more flour.
- On a lightly floured surface, pat the dough into a rectangle about 3/4 inch (2 cm) thick, flouring the top only as needed to keep it from sticking to your hands. Use a 2 1/2 inch (6 cm) wide round cutter to cut out 8-10 round biscuits, being careful not to twist the cutter as you press down. Place the biscuits 1-2 inches (2.5-5 cm) apart on the prepared baking sheet. Gently press together the scraps and cut to form additional biscuits.
- If desired, brush the tops of the biscuits with a little melted butter. Bake in preheated oven until flaky and bottoms are lightly golden brown, 13-15 minutes.
- Serve warm from the oven.
Bernie Dezenski
What a beautiful, hearty biscuit. Perfect for this time of the year!
Cynthia @ Whole Food | Real Families
What a great idea!
Cindy Kerschner
Sweet potatoes in biscuits sounds so good! Welcome to Sunday Supper!
reneeskitchenadventures
What a great idea! I’m going to have to find time to make this!
Sarah Reid, CNP (@jo_jo_ba)
Total comfort food! Bet this would be great with the concord grape jam i just made
Stacy
I have a weakness of buttermilk biscuits and love your addition of sweet potatoes, Tara. Welcome to Sunday Supper!
Sue Slusser Lau
Yum! I love sweet potato biscuits!
Krayl Funch (@KraylFunch)
Well done!! Welcome to the Sunday Supper family!!
Serena | Serena Bakes Simply From Scratch
A perfect way to enjoy fall! I can’t wait to try these!
Nart at Cooking with Nart
These biscuits are so good. I was already a big fan of sweet potatoes before I tried them but now I’m an even bigger fan!
adriana
This is a fantastic idea to use sweet potatoes. I have never tried this biscuit version but I am excited to try it this Thanksgiving.
veenaazmanov
Delicious combination of ingredients to making these amazing Biscuits. Sweet Potatoes are my all time favorite. Love to stack my snack box.
Jovita
These biscuits look amazing. What a great way to use seasonal sweet potatoes. Thank you for the idea!
Beth Sachs
Perfect for a chilled weekend Brunch. The kids loved them too!
Silvy
These are superb! I added a dash of cinammon and nutmeg as I like mildly spiced biscuits and they smelled and tasted divine. Thanks for another beautiful new recipe I learned from you this week 🙂
Tara
Hi Silvy! This makes me so happy to hear! I recently updated this recipe and it has definitely been a favorite for us 🙂