Sweet Potato Pie Biscuits
This alternative to buttermilk biscuits is sweet, buttery, and delicious. A sweet potato pie biscuits are exactly what they sound like. A sweet potato pie turned into a biscuit. With a few subtle changes to the simple buttermilk biscuit recipe, you’ll have a sweet biscuit to be enjoyed at any time of the day.
Sweet Potato Pie Biscuits
This alternative to buttermilk biscuits is sweet, buttery, and delicious. A sweet potato pie biscuits are exactly what they sound like. A sweet potato pie turned into a biscuit. With a few subtle changes to the simple buttermilk biscuit recipe, you'll have a sweet biscuit to be enjoyed at any time of the day.
Ingredients
- 1 medium sweet potato
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 4 tbsp cold butter
- 4 tbsp cold milk more as needed
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Milk Wash
- 5 tbsp milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 400℉. Oil, salt, and wrap your sweet potato tightly in aluminum foil Bake for 1 hour, or until fork tender.
- To a bowl, add in flour, baking powder, salt and brown sugar. Whisk to thoroughly combine.
- Add in butter to flour mixture and crumble with hands or use a cutter. Flour should resemble sand once complete.
- Add half of your baked potato into the mix and combine until flour mixture is incorporated with potato. Add in milk mixed with 1 tsp vanilla extract, 2 tbsp at a time and combine. Do not overmix dough. You just want the dough to no longer be wet or to have any dry clumps.
- Roll dough out until about 1½ inch thick and cut your desired shared biscuits. Place biscuits onto a non-stick baking sheet.Brush the top of your biscuits with milk mixed with remaining vanilla extract and bake for 10 minutes at 425℉
- Brush with butter once removed from the oven and serve immediately.
