Sweet Potato Dream Biscuits
 
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Recipe type: Bread
Cuisine: Southern
Serves: 48
Ingredients
  • 2¼ c. Self-Rising Flour (White Lily)
  • ¼ t. cinnamon
  • ⅛ t. ground cardamom
  • 2 T. Sugar in the Raw(turbinado sugar)
  • ½ c.(1 stick) frozen butter, grated
  • 1½ c. mashed sweet potatoes, about 3 medium
  • ½ c. buttermilk
Instructions
  1. Whisk together flour, cinnamon, sugar and cardamom.
  2. Mash sweet potatoes and keep chilled in refrigerator until ready to use.
  3. Grate the stick of frozen butter. Place in freezer for about 5 minutes.
  4. Toss butter gently into flour mixture and place bowl in freezer for about 10 minutes.
  5. With a wooden spoon, incorporate the sweet potatoes. Pour on the buttermilk and stir until dough begins to release from the sides of the bowl, about 15 stirs.
  6. Dump dough onto floured surface. Roll dough out and fold over about 5 times. Do not knead dough with hands! The dough must stay cold!
  7. Finally, roll it to ½" thickness and cut with 1½" biscuit cutter.
  8. Re-roll scraps to 1//2" thickness and cut the remaining biscuits.
  9. Place close and barely touching on parchment paper.
  10. Bake at 450 degrees for 12 minutes, longer if needed.
  11. Serve with Cranberry Orange Honey Butter... Perfect!
Recipe by My Dragonfly Cafe at https://mydragonflycafe.com/sweet-potato-dream-biscuits/