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Gluten Free Sweet Potato Biscuits

Published: Nov 20, 2019 · Modified: Oct 13, 2024 by Kim · This post may contain affiliate links · 7 Comments

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Ya'll! Have you ever had a sweet potato biscuit? If you haven't, stop what you're doing and make these AMAZING gluten free biscuits! Once you try them, you'll wonder why you never made them before.

gluten free sweet potato biscuit split open and spread with butter and honey

I'm one of those people who likes to cook once and eat twice. Like when I make a pot roast and then turn the leftovers into steak sandwiches. Or when I roast a whole chicken and make chicken salad the next day. It's rare that I eat the leftovers as actual leftovers.

About this time every year, I bake a ton of sweet potatoes, scoop out the insides, and puree them in a food processor. It's just so much easier than peeling, cutting, and boiling the potatoes.

I make sweet potato pie and sweet potato souffle pretty much every year. But I often have leftover sweet potato puree that I store in the freezer, which is just hoping to make its way into some new recipe.

Well, it finally found its spot in these sweet potato biscuits!!! And I am in LOVE with these biscuits, maybe more so than regular ole' buttermilk biscuits. Don't get me wrong. I love my gluten free buttermilk biscuits. But these have a sweet/savory thing going on that I find irresistible! They're flaky and light, but they're also moist and a touch sweet. They're just about perfect, and I made them gluten free so we can all enjoy them!

MAKING GLUTEN FREE SWEET POTATO BISCUITS

These biscuits come together in about 10 minutes and bake in about 15 so you can be in sweet potato biscuit heaven in under a half an hour. I've decided these are definitely finding their way onto our Thanksgiving table this year.

In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. Cut cold butter into the flour mixture until the size of large peas. I use my hands for this, breaking the butter pieces apart and "smooshing" (technical term) into the flour mixture. You can also use a pastry blender like this one or two knives.

Add the sweet potato puree and using a fork, cut ("smoosh") it into the butter/flour mixture. The mixture will be crumbly and dry.

butter and sweet potato cut into flour for biscuits

Pour buttermilk into the bowl and toss together until mixture forms somewhat of a dough. It won't completely hold together yet, but that's okay.

Dump it onto a lightly floured counter and knead briefly just to bring the whole thing together. Pat into a disk about 1 to 1 ½ inch thick. Cut out biscuits with a biscuit cutter. You can also use an empty clean tuna can.

cut sweet potato biscuits

Place biscuits on baking sheet or in a round baking dish. I have an old Pampered Chef round baker that I use for all biscuit making. They no longer make it, but they do have a round stone with a lip that would be perfect. I like my biscuits soft-sided, so I always put them close together when I bake them. If you like yours to have crunchy sides, simply space them out on the baking sheet so they don't touch when baking.

Bake at 450 degrees for about 12-15 minutes, or until well risen and they show plenty of layers.

sweet potato biscuits in red checked basket

HOW SHOULD I SERVE THESE BISCUITS?

With the whole sweet/savory thing going on in these gluten free sweet potato biscuits, I feel there are so many more ideas for how to serve them.

  • Plain -- they're fabulous just as is.
  • With butter or butter and honey-- butter makes everything better, right? Add the honey and it really brings out the sweetness of the sweet potato.
  • As a replacement for rolls -- I'm the first one to reach for a gluten free Hawaiian roll, but for a quicker version of a sweet dinner roll, these biscuits are the perfect stand in.
  • Piled high with turkey, ham, or stuffing -- I often make sandwiches right on my Thanksgiving plate with rolls. Why not with sweet potato biscuits?
  • Spread with cranberry curd -- cranberries AND sweet potatoes together in one bite? Sounds delish!
split open biscuit with butter and honey

If you're wanting a bread for your Thanksgiving table and don't feel comfortable with gluten free yeast breads, make these gluten free sweet potato biscuits. They're both sweet and savory and are the perfect easy quick bread for your holiday table!

gluten free sweet potato biscuit split open and spread with butter and honey

Gluten Free Sweet Potato Biscuits

Kim
Ya'll! Have you ever had a sweet potato biscuit? If you haven't, stop what you're doing and make these AMAZING gluten free biscuits! Once you try them, you'll wonder why you never made them before.
5 from 3 votes
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Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 15 minutes mins
Course bread, Breakfast
Cuisine American

Ingredients
 

  • 2 cups (280 g) Kim's gluten free flour blend (or any gf flour blend with xanthan gum)
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1 cup (240 g) sweet potato puree (or mashed sweet potato) (from about 2 large sweet potatoes)
  • ½ cup (1 stick or 113 g) butter, cold and cut into ½-inch pieces
  • ½ cup (120 ml) buttermilk, cold
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Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 450°. Prepare a baking dish (round, square, or a rectangular baking sheet) by either lining with parchment paper or greasing with melted butter or canola oil spray. Set aside.
  • In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt.
  • Cut butter into flour mixture using your fingers, a pastry blender, or two knives. Add sweet potato and continue to cut into butter/flour mixture. You can use a fork for this to just break it up and "smoosh" it into the mixture.
  • Add cold buttermilk and toss with fork to distribute. Mixture will be a little wet, but still crumbly.
  • Dump mixture out onto lightly floured surface and knead briefly to bring together into a dough.
  • Pat dough into a 1 to 1½-inch round and cut biscuits out with biscuit cutter or a homemade biscuit cutter using a cleaned tuna can with both ends cut out.
  • Place biscuits in baking dish. If soft-sided biscuits are desired, make sure biscuits are touching. If crunchier sides are desired, space biscuits about 1-inch apart.
  • Bake for about 12-15 minutes or until lightly browned and well risen with visible layers.
  • Serve warm.

Notes

These biscuits can be frozen before baked or after.  To freeze before being baked, place unbaked biscuits on baking sheet with parchment and freeze until firm (flash freeze).  Add frozen biscuits to freezer safe ziptop bag, removing as much air as possible.  To bake from frozen, just add about 5 more minutes to baking time.  
To freeze already baked biscuits, add baked biscuits to freezer safe ziptop bag, removing as much air as possible.  To reheat, place biscuits in foil packet and reheat in 350 degree oven for about 15-20 minutes.  They can also be wrapped in a damp paper towel and placed in the microwave at 30 second intervals until warmed throughout.  
Keyword biscuits, Gluten Free, sweet potato
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Adapted from Baking a Moment's Sweet Potato Biscuits

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Comments

  1. Patsy Green says

    December 30, 2021 at 1:36 pm

    These are amazing!!! Best GF biscuits ever! Measurements are perfect! This one is going in my recipe book. I will make these again!

    Reply
    • Kim says

      January 07, 2022 at 7:09 am

      Awesome, Patsy! Thanks so much 🥰🥰🥰

      Reply
  2. Jen says

    November 24, 2021 at 3:15 pm

    Made these for tomorrow's thanksgiving and they're delicious! I actually used pumpkin instead of sweet potato, because I had some puree I made from a fresh pumpkin. The flavor is nice, but I suspect they'll be even better with sweet potato next time. I baked them and plan to reheat them tomorrow. Thanks for yet another great recipe!

    Reply
  3. Melissa R. says

    November 22, 2020 at 10:17 pm

    Amazing is exactly the right word for these biscuits! They are scrumptious! I served them with chili for a dinner with two non-GF guests. One of them said these were the best biscuits he’d ever eaten. Everyone loved the tender texture and subtle sweetness from the sweet potato. I cheated and made the dough in my food processor and had it ready to bake in 10 minutes. I will definitely make these again, often!

    Reply
    • Kim says

      November 24, 2020 at 2:23 pm

      Yay!!! Thanks so much, Melissa! I'm so glad you and your friends liked the biscuits 🙂

      Reply
  4. Shelly says

    November 20, 2019 at 2:41 pm

    I’ll take your word for it that these are really good! Want to try them soon!

    Reply
    • Kim says

      November 20, 2019 at 7:43 pm

      They're so good! I'm going to make them for my family for Thanksgiving 🙂

      Reply

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