Sweet Potato Biscuits

After making Chef John's Sweet Potato Hamburger Bun recipe the other day I had some mashed sweet potato left over. Yesterday I came across a Sweet Potato Biscuit recipe while looking through a B&B magazine at the bookstore. It seemed like something good to do with the sweet potato and a new recipe to try.

I found the recipe online - Bay Haven Inn's Sweet Potato Biscuits

Supposedly, this is a variation of a Thomas Jefferson Sweet Potato Biscuit recipe.

Ingredient list looked fine - add Cinnamon, AllSpice, Brown Sugar and Ginger to the Sweet Potatoes. The odd thing about this recipe was to use melted butter. Most biscuit recipes use chunks of cold butter, cut into the flour mixture until small crumbs are formed. I decided to follow the recipe exactly rather than go with my instincts.

Dry and Wet Ingredients -



I needed to add about an additional 1/2 - 3/4 cup of flour as the initial mixture was way too sticky.

Cutting out the biscuits -



Turned out quite a few biscuits, requiring two Lodge skillets -



After 20 minutes or so in a 450 F oven they're done -







Plated -





OK, so how were they? Not bad, but a lot denser in texture than a normal buttermilk biscuit. Certainly not as flaky as these needed to be cut with a knife as opposed to being pulled apart.

In looking through other sweet potato biscuit recipes, most seem to stick with the tried and true technique of cutting in cold butter.

As far as taste however, these are quite good! Next time I attempt these Sweet Potato Biscuits I'll use a standard cold butter technique rather than melting the butter as in this recipe.

Not every thing can turn out perfect and experimentation can be fun.

Thanks for reading along.

Regards,
-lunchman

And of course I should have checked Chef John's videos prior to making these. I'd forgotten having seen his recipe some time ago, but it's hard to remember since I've watched so many on his channel.

And yes, cutting in the cold butter, actually grating frozen butter is the method he uses. I used this same method when I made cranberry orange scones last week (twice, btw). I didn't post those but they turned out fantastic. I also should have made more tri folds which the recipe I used doesn't even mention.

Oh well, next time.

Garyclaw said:

Looks good! I hit one of those right now.

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BillN said:

Oh man I want a plate of those.

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Stingerhook said:

Looks great Dom.

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Thanks, guys. With the exception of density, these turned out pretty decent. My wife came home from shopping and asked what that wonderful smell was. The biscuits got her approval, though she agreed that next time I should follow my instincts and make them using standard biscuit making techniques.

-Dom