Sweet Potato Biscuits

• 1 1/4 cups whole wheat pastry flour
• 1/2 cup white flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 3 Tbsp margarine
• 1/3 cup apple juice
• 1 cup cooked mashed sweet potato
• 3 Tbsp honey
• 1/2 cup finely chopped walnuts

Preheat oven to 425. Sift together the flours, baking powder, and salt in a mixing bowl. Work in the margarine until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add apple juice, sweet potato, honey, and nuts. Work them into a soft dough. Turn the dough out onto a well floured surface and kneed in just enough flour to make dough lose its stickiness. With floured hands, divide dough into small balls and arrange on a lightly greased baking sheet. Pat the top of each ball to flatten it slightly. Bake 12-15 minutes.


I probably will not ever make these biscuits again. This was the recipe I was most excited to make for Thanksgiving, yet it turned out the worst. While kneading out the dough, no matter how much flour I added it remained very sticky. I am assuming this is because of the honey, but who knows. All I know is I had the dough stuck to every one of my fingers and no amount of flour made it better. This stickiness made shaping them into balls impossible so I wound up just plopping them onto the baking sheet, which resulted in a not so nice looking result. The flavor left a lot to be desired. I don't know if it was the amount of flour I tried to use to make the dough less sticky, but they were very bland. This is definitely not going to be a repeat.