Servings | Prep Time |
12biscuits | 20minutes |
Cook Time | Passive Time |
1 1/2hours | 1 1/4hours |
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This delectable original recipe is by Michael McLaughlin, Williams-Sonoma Thanksgiving cookbook.
Earlier I referenced the kitchen disaster. The explosion.
You may be wondering what explosion?
It was somewhere around Thanksgiving 2003. My MIL, SILs, and I hummed and buzzed around the kitchen, prepping our Thanksgiving feast. I was excited to try these Sweet Potato biscuits. My dough was in the making when the timer went off Beep! Beep-ing.
Of course I knew not to do this . . .
but we had run out of counter space,
my hands felt increasing heat through the hot pad,
and I had forgotten something . . .
Pop! Shatter. Clatter. Splatter.
That #OoopsMoment when you remember (too late) that the electric burner was still hot from cooking green beans and you set down a glass dish upon it.
Boy did that glass dish Pop! Shatter. Clatter. Splatter . . . everywhere . . . and INTO the Sweet Potato Biscuit batter. Glass-ridden Sweet Potato Biscuit dough that we had to throw away while we tackled the kitchen cleanup.
Of course messes clean up, but that took time. With two young boys to corral at the time, my window of opportunity to make Sweet Potato Biscuits had expired. As reality would have it, our family would not eat Sweet Potato Biscuits that Thanksgiving.
Would you believe I didn’t retry this recipe for a decade? But when I did, I thought to myself Why didn’t I make these sooner? These Sweet Potato Biscuits are delicious! And Mr. Mixer makes making Homemade Honey Butter so fast and easy.
So there you go. Now you know the back story re: the kitchen explosion and these Sweet Potato Biscuits.
My Cheats:
Gluten-free option: sub gluten-free flour for gluten-full flour. I’ve tried this. The biscuits still taste pretty good, but the texture is different. The biscuits do not rise quite like gluten-full biscuits. I would still make them again. And really–any biscuit slathered with honey butter tastes delicious, doesn’t it?
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