Sweet Potato Biscuits

I love sweet potatoes baked with butter melted over the top and salted.  Yum!  I'm not that crazy about sweet potato casserole or candied sweet potatoes, but I'll eat both.  I had a couple crock pot sweet potatoes leftover and decided to try sweet potato biscuits.

I only needed one sweet potato or this recipe.  You can used leftover baked sweet potatoes, candied sweet potatoes or sweet potato casserole.  I might reduce or omit the sugar if I were using candied sweet potatoes or sweet potato casserole. 

Sweet Potato Biscuits

1 1/4 c all-purpose flour
2 heaping Tbsp sugar
4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 c mashed cooked sweet potatoes
1/4 c (1/2 stick) softened butter
2 to 4 Tbsp milk (depending on moisture of the potatoes, I used water as I didn't have any milk on hand)

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.  In a separate large bowl, mix the sweet potatoes and butter.  Add the flour mixture to the potato mixture an mix to make a soft dough.  Add milk a tablespoon at a time to mixture as needed, adding as little as possible.  

Turn dough out onto a floured surface, flour the top and roll out to 1/2" thickness.  Cut with a biscuit cutter (or glass as I didn't want to dig out the cutter).  Place the biscuits on a greased pan (I used a splat) and coat tops with melte butter (I omitted the butter).  Bake for 15 minutes.  If they're browning too fast, lower the oven temperature.

These were really good!  I ate them with a little butter, but I think they'd be good with some apple butter or jam.