Sweet potatoes may be boiled, mashed, fried, baked, candied, and glazed. And sweet potatoes are a favorite main dish accompaniment in place of pasta or white potatoes. They can also be made into luscious dessert foods, such as pies, custards, cookies, and cakes. Or turn them into a quick bread ingredient such as this delicious Sweet Potato Biscuit recipe.

Just four ingredients are all that is needed for this sweet potato biscuit recipe, a biscuit cutter, and a baking sheet produce these tender, puffed Sweet Potato Biscuits. A slice of turkey, ham, or pork taste great tucked inside each one. Or just add some butter and eat warm.

You can make these 20 minute sweet potato biscuits whatever size you would like. For parties you can cut smaller biscuits which are ideal. Then you can tuck in slivers of meat and pile them on a platter as hearty appetizers. And for breakfast you can try cutting larger biscuits that will be the talk of the breakfast table.

So turn on the oven and start a pan of these delicious Sweet Potato biscuits now.

Sweet Potato Biscuit Recipe:

Ingredients:

1/3 cup cold butter or margarine, cut into pieces
2 ½ cups biscuit mix
1 cup canned mashed sweet potato
½ cup milk

Cut the butter into the biscuit mix until the mixture becomes crumbly. Combine the sweet potato and the milk, add to the biscuit mix, stirring with a fork just until the dry ingredients become moistened.

Place the dough on a board that has been lightly floured and knead 4 or 5 times. Pat or roll the dough to ¾ inch thickness. Cut these sweet potato biscuits with a biscuit cutter and place the biscuits on a large ungreased baking sheet.

Bake for 12 minutes in a 450 degree oven.