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Gluten Free Sweet Potato Biscuits

Fluffy, moist sweet potato biscuit gluten free.
Prep Time1 hour
Cook Time15 minutes
Total Time1 hour 15 minutes
Course: Biscuits
Cuisine: American
Servings: 8
Author: Angela Roberts

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Roast sweet potato until completely soft at 400 degrees. (30-50 minutes)
  • Cool.
  • Mix sweet potato with cinnamon, maple syrup, orange juice.
  • Chill.
  • Cut butter into cubes and freeze for 15 minutes.
  • Mix together flour, baking powder, salt.
  • Mix butter into flour mixture.
  • Mix together sweet potato mixture, buttermilk and egg.
  • Add sweet potato mixture into flour mixture.
  • You may need to add in more buttermilk if mixture is too dry.
  • Form into a dough ball. Pat down to an 8 inch disk.
  • Cut 8 biscuits.
  • Place apart on a baking sheet.
  • Bake for 15 minutes at 450 Degrees F.
  • You may need to bake a few minutes longer if you cut them large.

Notes

This is very important in gluten free baking. Allow the biscuits to cool for at least ten minutes. Because they are gluten free, the heat will give a gummy texture, which changes once the biscuits are cool.