Dorie’s Sweet Potato Biscuits ~ TWD
Posted by Amy Ruth | Filed under Uncategorized
Sweet Potatoes are a little mystifying to me. I never know what I’m getting when I pick one up out of the bin at the grocery store. I like them and grew up eating sweet potato concoctions, the southern version with toasted marshmallows on top. Sweetness, sweetness.
It is the best way to eat your vegetables I would say. Recently, while flipping through the final issue of Gourmet I noticed a small article near the back explaining all the varieties and further describing their appearance as well as nuances of their flavor. Still I would probably have to have flash cards or the magazine with me to identify the different varieties. Crazy huh? 
Erin of Prudence and Pennywise chose these unique and yummy biscuits to help usher in the upcoming Thanksgiving season. They are pretty tasty especially with jam. To top it all off, you can whip these up in no time and you can even use canned sweet potatoes if you want. That’s remarkable. This little biscuit is in the front section of Dorie Greenspans Baking From My Home to Yours along with some other types of biscuits and scones. If you would like to give them a whirl, you can find the recipe on Erin’s blog or in Dorie’s book. Hope you are enjoying the Fall season along with all the yumminess too.
October 20th, 2009 at 7:27 am
Wow, yours look fantastic…I clearly have not the biscuit baking gene, which means I must pursue this until I figure it out! Yours are just wonderful in color, shape, rise, everything! Envy reigns.
October 20th, 2009 at 7:27 am
I’m with you on mysterious sweet potatoes. Nice texture on your biscuits.
October 20th, 2009 at 7:36 am
WOW! I’m not even exagerating when I say those are the best looking, the flakiest, the most beautiful I’ve seen today (and no, I didn’t start here! LOL). I must come over for biscuits lessons!
October 20th, 2009 at 9:49 am
I always pick a winner for the week and looks like you win for the best looking, flaky, highest risen biscuits! Great job.
October 20th, 2009 at 9:51 am
Oh my, I’ve never had one of these with toasted marshmallow. I would love that! I actually made these but cannot upload my photos at work so the photos will come tonite or tomorrow. I have samba lesson tonite so may not get to it. Yours look fabulous as always! I love fall weather and the wonderful foods that come with it!!
Have a great week.
October 20th, 2009 at 10:37 am
love a sweet potato with marshmallows or without. Nice biscuits!
October 20th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Nice biscuits, Missy!
It looks flaky and I wouldn’t mind having one with jam either!
October 20th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
So happy you loved this! And yes, it’s so sad about Gourmet! I swear…
October 20th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Yours are the lightest and flakiest I’ve seen. I’m going to have to give this recipe a second chance. Well done!
October 20th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Wow, I, too, am amazed by the flakiness of your biscuits. I enjoyed these as well, and you are right, they would be good with jam.
October 20th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
You have the perfect flaky biscuits! I’ve actually only eaten sweet potatos baked or bbqed. the first time I heard about serving them with marshmallows was in an episode of Paula. That sounds like fun and something I might try one day.
October 20th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
those are tall and flaky and perfect. Wish mine had turned out as well. Great job.
October 20th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Those look delicious! Bet they were great with that jam!
October 20th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
wow you got such great rise out of your biscuits!!! i wish i knew what i did wrong
October 20th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Perfect photos with that big jar of jam, I like how you can have these for breakfast or dinner. The last issue of Gourmet has been sitting on my kitchen table waiting to be opened for a week, it makes me sad knowing it will be the final time I enjoy it.
October 20th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Great photos – your biscuits look perfect! They’re so flaky! I love the idea of this recipe but struggled with it a bit so I’ll have to try it again sometime.
October 20th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
I am so impressed with your biscuits…they’re as perfect as mine were imperfect! I just received my Gourmet today. So sad.
October 21st, 2009 at 1:40 am
What scrumptious perfect little biscuits! I love sweet potatoes and if ever I can find the oranges ones here in France (I so miss them) I’ll be making these wonderful biscuits!
October 21st, 2009 at 9:13 am
Wow! Your’s come out just perfect!
October 21st, 2009 at 2:25 pm
You know, I’ve never had sweet potatoes baked with marshmallows? I have had sweet potato fries with a marshmallow sauce, YUM!
Anyway, your biscuits look great!
October 21st, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Yours look the best I’ve seen so far! Wonderful job.
October 21st, 2009 at 8:50 pm
WOW! How’d you get yours to be soo flaky? Yours is the flakiest biscuits I’ve seen so far. They look fantastic! =)
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:36 am
Whoa…those are some very pretty biscuits you got there! Well done, my friend!
October 23rd, 2009 at 1:48 am
Ok – you’ve made biscuits before haven’t you? Fess up. How on earth did you get them to be so high and flakey and perfect? Love the addition of jam (not sure about the marshmallows yet), but these look (and I’m sure) taste fantastic! Very impressed!
October 24th, 2009 at 11:49 am
These look amazing! I love sweet potatoes, and I love biscuits, so this is a winner, and a perfect compliment to a holiday meal.
October 25th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
I made these but never posted them because they were a true disaster! Haha! But yours look like what I wished mine turned out like! Gorgeous job! I was just looking through the last gourmet as well and I got so sad. I wish they could have had time to write a proper goodbye!
October 27th, 2009 at 7:29 am
I just made sweet potato ravoili, now thanks to you I can make biscuits too!
October 27th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Amy these sound great. I usually make popovers for Thanksgiving but may have to try these instead and replace my sweet potato casserole with mashers this year. They look delicious! How did you like them?
October 29th, 2009 at 8:42 am
Great looking biscuits! It looks like you got a better rise out of them then most did. They look absolutely delicious.
November 7th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
These look soooo good.
I make A LOT of biscuits. Mostly the plain buttermilk variety because I like to slather them in different kinds of jam
November 7th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
I love Dorie and that book! My worldpeace cookies just came out of the oven – so heavenly!
January 10th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
I love the cookies.