Obviously as the holidays near, you expected even more Sweet Potato-Palooza, right? Well, never one to disappoint, here is the latest Palooza installment.
Sweet Potato Biscuits
1-3/4 c. all-purpose flour
2 T. light-brown sugar
1/8 t. allspice
1/8 t. ground cloves
2-1/2 t. baking powder
1 t. fine sea salt
1/2 t. baking soda
6 T. chilled unsalted butter, cut into pieces
3/4 c. chilled sweet-potato puree
1/3 c. buttermilk
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, light-brown sugar, spices baking powder, salt and baking soda. In a food processor with blade attachment, add dry ingredients and cut in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse meal, with some pea-sized lumps of butter remaining.(Don’t over process!) In a medium bowl, whisk together the sweet-potato puree and buttermilk; add butter/flour mixture and stir quickly until combined. (Again, do not over-mix.)
Turn out the dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead very gently until the dough comes together but is still slightly lumpy and crumbly. If the dough is too sticky, work in up to 1/4 cup additional flour. Shape into a disk, and pat to an even 1-inch thickness. With a floured 2-inch biscuit cutter, cut out the biscuits as close together as possible. Gather the scraps, and repeat to cut out more biscuits – do not reuse scraps more than once.
Preheat the oven to 425°F, with a rack on lower shelf. Butter an 8-inch cake pan.
You don't have to tell me twice to butter a pan.
Arrange biscuits snugly in pan (to help them stay upright). Brush biscuits with melted butter. Bake until golden, rotating once, 20 to 24 minutes.
I combined two recipes for these holiday themed biscuits—one from Country Living and one from The Urban Spork. Thanks for the ideas because I can safely say that I NEVER would have thought to have put sweet ‘taters in biscuits.
Seriously, these are absolutely delicious!!!!!
We are having these for breakfast during the Thanksgiving holiday. Options: stuff it with a local pork sausage patty or lather it with butter and homemade Blackberry-Thyme jam (or live on the edge and do both!).
Have a great couple of days preparing for the Thanksgiving feast!
