Sweet Potato Biscuits

Perfect for any fall gathering these Sweet Potato Biscuits have just a hint of cinnamon. The light touch of sweetness makes them perfect for breakfast, brunch or your holiday feast, but they're easy enough to make any time you like.

Sweet Potato Biscuits, you say? Yeah, man! They're like the best of all worlds in one little round bit of yumminess. Now, if you love sweet potatoes it's one more way to get some in your belly.

But honestly, the sweet potato flavor is subtle enough that you'll love the biscuits even if you don't love sweet potatoes. A gentle touch of cinnamon takes the flavor soaring to new levels. I am not kidding! You have got to try these.

On the other hand, if you do truly love sweet potatoes you'll want to learn to make Pan Fried Sweet Potatoes and Smoked Sweet Potatoes. They can go on the smoker alongside your ham or turkey.

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• The Recipe is Tried and True
• This recipe has been updated and improved:
• 📖 Recipe
• Do you have everything you need to make biscuits?
• Make ahead and freeze
• Love Sweet Potatoes?
• Funny Story:
• A few more recipes great for your fall & winter holidays

The Recipe is Tried and True

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I made a few adaptations, but the inspiration for the recipe is from one of my all time favorite cookbooks, The Ultimate Southern Living Cookbook. This link is to my original 1999 cookbook, but if you'd prefer the updated version, this goes to The All New Ultimate Southern Living Cookbook. 

Is anybody else out there like me and still like your printed cookbooks? I love finding recipes online like most of you, but there is something satisfying about sitting down with a cup of coffee or a glass of wine and thumbing through a real old fashioned cookbook.

This recipe has been updated and improved:

We've removed shortening as an ingredient to use all butter. Freezing the butter and then grating it is the perfect way to get flaky biscuits. We have had so much success with that method in our 3 Ingredient Buttermilk Biscuits that we're incorporating it here too.

There is something therapeutic about making biscuits. Making that big ball of dough and sprinkling it with flour and then rolling it out is just good clean fun. If that's the kind of fun that appeals to you be sure to check out Southern Food Then and Now. 

The first time I made these biscuits I used the 2 inch biscuit cutter and I thought they were just a bit small. I feel like 2.5 inches gives you a more substantial biscuit, but that's a matter of preference too. You could even make little tea biscuits. Yum!

If you love the idea of sweet potatoes in your bread you'll want to try this recipe too. Sweet Potato Muffins with Crumble Topping have an optional praline glaze that takes them totally over the top. If your looking for some more sweet biscuit recipes, you'll want to try these Cinnamon Biscuits. They're phenomenal with a little bit of icing on top!

📖 Recipe

Do you have everything you need to make biscuits?

• Food processor (this links to a page of several choices - all Amazon 4 star rated or better)
• Potato Masher
• Biscuit Cutter Set
• Parchment Paper

 The Ultimate Southern Living Cookbook  suggests filling these biscuits with a slice of ham, bacon or turkey. That's an idea we can wrap our heads around. We happened to have some homegrown tomatoes on biscuit baking day and we enjoyed a hot biscuit with a piece of Applewood Bacon and a slice of tomato. Oh my!

If you're reading this you must love biscuits. You'll also want to try our Asiago Cheese & Black Pepper Biscuits. They are divine! And Mexican Style Biscuits has all the flavors of Mexican Cornbread, but in biscuit form.

Make ahead and freeze

I'm a huge fan of doing anything I can ahead of a big holiday meal. The more time I have to spend with friends and family the happier I am.

These Sweet Potato Biscuits are perfect for that. Bake them and make sure they're completely cool before freezing. I would be very comfortable making them 2 or 3 weeks ahead.

At Thanksgiving I always include my Mama's old original Pecan Pie recipe and I make those ahead and freeze them too. No one can tell the difference. I promise. Both are included in this collection of 15 Make Ahead Recipes for Holiday Meals. 

One more traditional Thanksgiving dish that can be made a day ahead and kept in the fridge or a couple of weeks and frozen is Slow Cooker Turkey Breast. It makes the most divine gravy which also freezes well.

Love Sweet Potatoes?

This is a super simple recipe that makes a wonderful side dish year round. Only 4 ingredients are in this one and it has humble beginnings in the Gullah culture of the Carolina Lowcountry. Gullah Style Sweet Potato recipe can be found here.

Funny Story:

When this recipe came to be it was because a friend had been going on about the great sweet potato biscuits she had in a restaurant. Or so I thought. As it turns out she was actually telling me about sweet potato cornbread. Duh.

Almost through with this biscuit post I went ahead to complete it - and y'all do love the biscuits. But, now we have added Sweet Potato Cornbread to Biscuits and Burlap. You'll want to click over for that recipe too.

If you make either recipe, be sure to leave a comment, and tag @biscuitsandburlap in a picture on Instagram. See y'all next time!

Don't forget dessert! For the perfect end to your fall meal try this Apple Crisp with Cranberries. Mmm.....

A few more recipes great for your fall & winter holidays