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Sweet Potato Biscuits
Servings
8
biscuits
Ingredients
1¾
cup
flour
2
tbsp
brown sugar
2½
tsp
baking powder
½
tsp
salt
½
tsp
baking soda
6
tbsp
chilled butter
cut into pieces
¾
cup
sweet potato puree
⅓
cup
buttermilk
Instructions
Whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and baking soda.
Using a pastry cutter, cut in the chilled butter, until it looks like coarse meal, with some pea sized butter pieces remaining.
In a separate bowl, combine the sweet potato puree and buttermilk.
Then add the sweet potato/buttermilk mixture to the flour.
Stir with a fork, but don't over mix.
Then turn the dough out onto a floured surface, and knead into a ball. It is supposed to be lumpy - that's what makes them so buttery and crumbly!
Then flatten the ball into a disc shape, about 1 inch thick. The disc should be big enough to get 8 biscuits cut out of it.
Using a biscuit cutter or some other circle shape (like a cup), cut out 8 biscuits. Make sure to use all the dough.
In a preheated 425 degree oven, bake for 20-25 minutes, rotating the pan half way through baking.