Sweet Potato Biscuits
africanbites.com · 2025 · 12
Against 321 biscuit recipes
Less buttermilk than 98% of recipes and more sugar than 97%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 321 biscuit recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less buttermilk than 98% of recipes: 40% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%, about half as much.
- More sugar than 97% of recipes: 17% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.3%, about 5 times as much.
- More fat than 90% of recipes: 57% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
Ingredients (7)
- 2½ cups (300g) all-purpose flour, (spooned into a measuring cup and leveled off with the back edge of a knife)300 g
- 3-4 tablespoons (50g) sugar50 g
- 4 teaspoons (16g) baking powder16 g
- 1 teaspoon (6g) salt6 g
- 12 tablespoons (170g) unsalted butter, (frozen and grated)170 g
- 1 cup (240ml) sweet potatoes, (cooked and mashed (see notes))≈ 150 g
- ¼-½ cup (55-120g) buttermilk ((optional, see sweet potato notes))120 g
flour 300 gbatter 812 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 321 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Fat57% · 90th percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk40% · 2nd percentile · median 84%
- Leavening5.3% · 53rd percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar17% · 98th percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt2% · 68th percentile · median 1.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 425°F
- Time
- 12 to 15 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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