Sweet Potato Biscuits are a whole new level of deliciousness. They’re light, fluffy, and sweet, making them an excellent complement to your weekend cuisine. The sweet potatoes help to keep the biscuits moist and soft. These Sweet Potato Biscuits are a delightful twist on the typical for your weekend breakfast, and they’re extremely easy to make. They can be eaten for breakfast, brunch, or as a side dish or appetizer with supper.
Potatoes are a fantastic ingredient in biscuits. When you mix them into the dough, the result is softer and fluffier. They have a traditional biscuit flavor, but with a mild earthy sweetness. They’re like regular biscuits, but extra special.
Why sweet potato biscuits is are good for you?
- Sweet potatoes are inherently sweet, provide a lot of moisture to baked foods, and have a beautiful color.
- Fresh sweet potatoes are simple to prepare. The solid sweet potato is transformed into a soft, sweet baking ingredient with an extremely rich caramelized flavor thanks to hands-off oven roasting.
- Sweet potatoes are high in fiber and antioxidants, which are beneficial to intestinal health. Sweet potatoes’ antioxidants may also be beneficial to the intestines.
- Sweet potatoes are high in antioxidants that protect your body from free radicals, especially the orange and purple types.
- Sweet potatoes are high in beta-carotene, the antioxidant responsible for the vivid orange color of the vegetable. Hence encourage good vision.
How to prepare a biscuit tray for baking sweet potato biscuits?
One of the most critical aspects of making good sweet potato cookies is properly preparing your biscuit tray. Read the recipe thoroughly because some require oiled pans while others do not. If in doubt, lining with parchment paper is always a good idea.
What kind of biscuit tray works well?
Baked biscuits on biscuit trays are crispier and darker in color. Bake biscuits in metal baking pans with 1-1/2- to 2-inch sides for softer, fluffier biscuits. Use biscuit trays with at least 2 inches between the cookie sheet/baking pan and the oven sides and rear, as well as the oven door, for the best results. This allows the oven to circulate air and distribute heat evenly. The greatest option for uniformly colored, shaped, and sized biscuits, scones, and shortcakes is aluminium biscuit tray. It prevents the bottoms and sides of baked items from becoming excessively black.
How to store sweet potato biscuits?
Sweet potato cookies can be kept for up to 5 days in an airtight jar at room temperature. Baked sweet potato cookies can be frozen for up to 3 months in an airtight, freezer-safe storage container. Allow to thaw overnight in the refrigerator before serving.
INGREDIENTS
- 1 large egg
- 3/4 cup salted butter, melted and cooled
- 1/2 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
- 3/4 tsp vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup cooked, pureed sweet potatoes
- 1 1/4 – 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
Sweet potato: Roasted, mashed, and caramelized to provide flavor, moisture, and sweetness to these soft cookies.
Flour: The cookies are softened using a combination of all-purpose and whole wheat flour, which also adds a healthy dose of whole grains.
Oil: Maintains the moistness and tenderness of these healthful sweet potato cookies.
Brown Sugar: Sugar that is used to make Sweet potatoes everywhere have finally found their true soul-mate. Brown sugar gives sweetness and a hint of molasses taste to the cookies, as well as allowing them to caramelise and crisp in the oven.
Eggs: The cookies get their tenderness and moisture from eggs.
Vanilla Extract: enhances the flavor of the cookies
Nutritional Facts (per serving):
153 Calories; 8g Fat; 18g Carbs; 2g Protein; 1g Fiber.
How to bake?
Step 1:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and line the SunBrand biscuit tray with parchment paper.
Step 2:
Peel and chop sweet potatoes, then boil them in water. Once they’ve been boiled, mash them with milk until they’re smooth.
Step 3:
In a mixing basin, whisk together the flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder. Then, until the mixture resembles coarse grain, add the butter and combine thoroughly.
Step 4:
Stir in the mashed sweet potatoes until the mixture holds together, then add additional milk if necessary.
Step 5:
Turn the dough out onto a floured board. Cut the dough into small cookies by rolling it out and cutting it. Place them on a SunBrand biscuit tray that has been prepped.
Step 6:
Bake for 10 minutes, or until a little browning has occurred. Remove them from the oven and set them aside to cool. Now, serve the biscuits with love.
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