One of my favorite bloggers is this week’s host for Tuesdays with Dorie. Erin of Prudence Pennywise selected Sweet Potato Biscuits, which can be found on page 26 of Baking From My Home to Yours, or on Erin’s blog this week.
These biscuits whip up in no time, but you really have to be extra gentle with the dough or you’ll get no rise on the biscuits. They include a 29 ounce can of drained sweet potatoes in light syrup, mashed with a fork. It really adds a nice taste, especially since I am not much of a biscuit fan.
My dough was 1/2″ tall before baking and almost 1″ after baking, yet they still looked flat. LOL
They were good, I let them cool all the way and served them at dinner with butter and honey. Good combo. :) Hubby liked them plain even. May try these again at Thanksgiving!
butter and honey sound like a great addition. :)
Amanda, thanks so much for your kind write up. Your blog is looking soooo scrumptious. Your sidebar is killing me. I'm going to have to make that caramel apple cofee cake. But maybe the cranberry streusel cake will have to come first. You're doing great work over here!
Your biscuits look perfect! I wish I had a couple for breakfast. ::g::
Your plate of biscuits look exactly like mine (my unglazed ones). I've decided my sweet potato ones definitely taste better than they look.
I love your pink look, by the way!
Super nice biscuits !!
Mine didn't rise much at all, but they were tasty. I can imagine how tasty the honey would be on these, too. Looks nice around here, Amanda!
Love the lighting on your first and last pictures. Rather ethereal.
They sound perfect this time of year. Easy huh? I might have to give these a try! Hope canned sweet potatoes are easier to find then canned pumpkin right now.
Yum! I would love to make these! I had sweet potato biscuits at my dinner at Valley Forge and really loved them!
These look really tasty. I love sweet potatoes anyway- and they are so good for you.
A couple of my biscuit recipes did not rise as much as I would have liked, but they still tasted great.
I think these would be perfect for Thanksgiving!
These biscuits look delicious, and the I love how simple the recipe is! Thanks for sharing!
How did you get them all so evenly shaped, etc.? Great color. I think mine got a little out of shape tranferring from cutting surface to pan…some things I cannot just be expected to be good at. We loved these, but I need to work on rise and presentation. (Oh, really, who cares, I have teen guys and they barely look at anything before devouring it! They loved them just the way they were!)
That's a bummer about the rising part but at least they still tasted good!
~ingrid
They look delicious and perfect for Thanskgiving!
Agreed Amanda, Thanksgiving sounds like a good idea. They can be made ahead. Bonus! Your look delicious and I'm glad your family like them. How can you not when you add butta and honey.
AmyRuth
I've always wanted to try sweet potato biscuits. I may have to mix up my pumpkin obsession with a little sweet potato soon. And I love biscuits (why aren't you usually a fan?)
I always bake my biscuits close together (barely touching), I think it helps them rise (they sort of push each other along). Also, I've heard making a small indentation (like a light thumbprint) on the top of each biscuit helps… I'm not sure if that really does anything or not but I do usually tap the tops with my thumb before I bake them.
These seem like a good THanksgiving recipe! :)
i've found that a lot of dorie's biscuit and sconey-things don't rise much..what's up with that? anyway, they did taste good, and you're right-perfect for thanksgiving!
Hi Amanda,
Thank you for stopping by my place and leaving your comment. This is my second week doing TWD.
I have a silly question… where do you find the new baker list on Dorie's site? I have check the box that says weekly update, but it just takes me to her list of posts.
I can't wait to spend some time here on your blog… looks like you have some great stuff here :)
Kindly, ldh
your biscuits are so uniformly shaped! mine were just globs since my dough was so sticky. i love biscuits with butter and honey….or whipped honey butter :)
Your biscuits look so pretty. Glad they were a hit. Butter and honey sound like the perfect accompaniments to these biscuits. Great pictures.
Your biscuits look great! I love the big pile. I'm with you: I don't usually think biscuits are that great, but they were yummy with sweet potato.
So glad I visited your blog – lots of great stuff here!
I was thinking that these would be good for Thanksgiving too. Getting these to rise was extremely tricky, in fact I don't know if it's possible to get them higher than you did! They look delicious!
I agree – these were good!!!