Simple Sweet Potato Biscuit Recipe (Ready In 25 Minutes)

These sweet potato biscuits are slightly crisp on the outside, and soft and fluffy inside. They have a delightfully sweet flavor and every bite leaves you wanting to take another. Honestly, they're just so much tastier than regular biscuits and they're surprisingly easy to make too. Just 4 simple steps - and less than 30 minutes - are all it takes to make these homemade sweet potato biscuits. 

Ingredients You'll Need

One of my favorite things about this sweet potato biscuit recipe is that you need just a few pantry staples to make it. Honestly, as long as you have sweet potatoes there's a good chance you'll have everything else you'll need to make 'em.

Anyway, here's what you'll need to make the best sweet potato biscuits:

• ¾ cup Mashed Sweet Potatoes
• ½ cup Milk
• 2 cups All-Purpose Flour
• 1 tsp. Baking Powder
• 1 tsp. Cinnamon Powder
• 1 tbsp. Brown Sugar
• ½ cup Cold Butter
• Maple Syrup to serve

Common stuff, right? 

Now, if you want to whip up these biscuits as quickly as possible I recommend making the mashed sweet potatoes ahead of time. With that said though, you can use some store-bought or homemade sweet potato puree to make these biscuits with as well. 

By the way, if you end up making a large batch of mashed sweet potatoes - and have leftovers - you can always put them to good use by making some of my other sweet potato recipes - like these sweet potato cookies and this sweet potato pecan pie!

How To Make Sweet Potato Biscuits

Even if you've never made biscuits before, you'll find this sweet potato biscuit recipe is a breeze to make.

All you have to do is mix the ingredients together, knead the dough, and cut out the biscuits. And, don't be intimidated by kneading the dough, it's really easy to work with and only takes a minute or so to do. 

Anyway, let's stop wasting time and get into how to make these sweet potato biscuits!

Step 1: Prep Work

First things first you'll want to preheat your oven to 350°F ( 180ºC). 

Then, while the oven is heating up, you can make the sweet potato biscuit dough. So, to do that you'll want to mix the mashed sweet potatoes and milk together in a large bowl until they somewhat combine - then set them aside.

Next, take out a food processor - or blender - and add the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, brown sugar, and cold butter to it. Pulse the ingredients until the mixture resembles a coarse meal.

By the way, if you don't have a food processor or blender, then you can add your ingredients to a large bowl and use a pastry cutter to chop up the butter and combine it with everything. Doing this will take a bit longer, but it will have the same effect.

Step 2: Make The Biscuit Dough

Now that the flour mixture ingredients are prepped, it's time to make the dough!

First, add the butter mixture to the bowl of mashed sweet potato and milk, and give everything a quick mix with a rubber spatula. Then, you'll want to get into the bowl with your hands and knead everything together to create a dough. Make sure you only knead it until it just forms a homogenous dough. You don't want to overmix it. 

Step 3: Form The Biscuits

Now, once you have the dough ready to roll, line a baking sheet with paper, sprinkle some flour on top, and place the dough on the lightly floured surface.

Then, either using your hands - or preferably a rolling pin - spread the dough out until it is about ¼ inch thick. Alternatively, you can place your biscuit dough on a lightly floured surface and roll it out there before moving it to your baking sheet.

Once the dough is rolled out, use a round cookie cutter to cut out about 12 biscuits. After you cut out a few biscuits, you can form the dough back into a ball and roll it out again, so you get the most out of the dough.

Step 4: Bake The Biscuits

Now that you have your prepared baking sheet filled with the cut sweet potato biscuits, you can pop it in the oven and bake the biscuits for about 15 minutes or until they are slightly golden brown to top.

Finally, serve these fluffy sweet potato biscuits warm with some maple syrup, melted butter, or a slab of butter on top, and enjoy!

How I Recommend Storing The Biscuits

As I mentioned, this recipe for sweet potato biscuits will make about 12 biscuits. And, honestly, whenever I make them for a family get-together, I rarely have any leftovers.

But, if you happen to save a few, these flaky biscuits store really, really well! So, if you plan on saving some you'll want to wait to put the maple syrup or butter on them.

Then, you can store the cooled biscuits in an airtight container, or wrap them tightly in plastic wrap and store them in a sealed bag with the air squeezed out. Stored either of these ways, they'll last at room temperature for up to 3-4 days or in the fridge for a week.

Alternatively, if you want to keep the biscuits for longer, you can store them in the freezer for 2-3 months.

How I Recommend Reheating The Biscuits

These biscuits are pretty darn tasty at room temperature, but they're even better hot.

So, to get them hot as fast as possible I recommend reheating them in the microwave for about 10 seconds. However, if you don't have a microwave, you can put 'em in a toaster oven for a minute or two and they'll warm up perfectly in there.

Once you've got the biscuits warm again, top them with the syrup or butter and enjoy!

By the way, if you're reheating a frozen biscuit, you'll just want to add more cooking time to one of the methods above.

My Final Thoughts

Well, that's how to make sweet potato biscuits from scratch!

I know I'm a bit biased, but I really think these are the best sweet potato biscuits you'll ever try. I mean, the taste and texture are just absolutely perfect, and they're so, so darn tasty.

The fact that they're so quick and easy to make is just a bonus.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy these biscuits as much as my family and I do. If you give this recipe a try, leave a comment below and tell me how it went!

More Sweet Potato Recipes

If you love sweet potatoes and how versatile they are, then you're going to love some of our other easy sweet potato recipes! 

Here are some of my favorite ones that we've done:

• Candied yams
• Sweet potato souffle
• Sweet potato muffins
• Sweet potato hash browns
• Sweet potato casserole
• Sweet potato pound cake

Oh, and, as always, don't forget to check us out on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok! We post new easy-to-make recipes on them every single day.