Sweet Potato Biscuits

By miss5elements

Created by Susan Spicer of Bayona
Oprah.com | January 01, 2006

"They're warm and they make the house smell good and buttery," chef Susan Spicer says. "We spooned honey on them for breakfast, but they'd be very nice for dinner with smothered pork chops."

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour , plus more for dusting
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 8 tablespoons (1 stick) cold butter , cut into small pieces
• 1/4 cup vegetable shortening
• 3/4 cup cooked, mashed sweet potato
• 4 to 5 tablespoons milk
• 2 tablespoons butter , melted

Details

Servings 12
Adapted from oprah.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 400°. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, sugar and salt. Cut cold butter and shortening into dry ingredients with a pastry blender (or two knives) until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

In a small bowl, combine sweet potato and 4 tablespoons milk. Add to flour mixture and stir just until a soft dough forms and pulls away from sides of bowl. (If needed, add remaining 1 tablespoon milk.)