Sweet Potato Biscuits Are An Exciting Addition To Your Holiday Dinner

If you’ve got extra sweet potatoes hanging around the kitchen on Thanksgiving Day, make these sweet potato biscuits, inspired by Budget Bytes and watch them disappear faster than the turkey. Light and flaky, these scrumptious homemade sweet potato biscuits come to the holiday table flaunting a fluffy high-rise of golden layers and an enticing rosemary aroma. Your holiday guests will be grabbing for their share before you even set the biscuit basket on the table. ALSO TRY: Homemade Southern cornbread dressing will remind you of your favorite childhood holiday side dish Worried that adding sweet potato puree to biscuit mix will result in a leaden puck of bread? Put your concerns aside. As long as you use cold ingredients and treat the dough quickly and gently, these sweet potato biscuits will be the best biscuits you’ve ever made. Cold ingredients matter. When it comes to biscuits, flaky is a good thing. To achieve a lofty stack of flaky layers, you need to use cold fats and liquids. The dry ingredients coat the bits of butter, which will melt during the baking, keeping the layers separate. If the butter melts before baking, it will create a homogenous dough that leads to dense biscuits. For this recipe, we freeze the stick of butter and use a grater to grate the butter bits into the dry ingredients. Be sure your sweet potato puree and milk are chilled before adding them to the mix. Be gentle and quick with the biscuit dough. The best biscuits are made with a light hand. Mix ingredients just until combined then dump the dough onto a lightly floured surface. Work in just enough flour to keep your hands from sticking to form a free-form ball. Don’t overwork the dough. Use a rolling pin to roll the dough out to about 3/4-inch thickness. Use a sturdy sharp-edged cutter for lofty symmetrical biscuits. A sharp cutter will efficiently slice through the biscuit dough without compressing the layers unevenly. There is no need to twist the cutter as you cut out the dough. Twisting it will seal the sides of the biscuit dough and hinder its ability to rise in the oven.

Mix the dry ingredients and cut in butter

In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, and salt. Grate the frozen butter stick into the flour mixture. Gently toss the flour mixture to coat the bits of butter.

Combine the sweet potato puree and milk

Place the sweet potato puree in a bowl and blend in the milk until smooth.

Add the sweet potato mixture and rosemary to the dry ingredients

Add the sweet potato mixture to the flour mixture and sprinkle with rosemary. Working quickly, stir the ingredients together until moistened and no flour remains at the bottom of the bowl.

Make dough and cut out the biscuits

Dump the dough onto a lightly floured surface and incorporate just enough flour to keep your hands from sticking. Use a rolling pin to roll the dough out to 3/4-inch thickness. To cut the biscuits, use a sharp biscuit cutter and press the cutter straight down into the dough, without twisting. Make 8 biscuits, then gently reroll scraps to cut additional rounds.