I hope you all had a WONDERFUL turkey day.
I hope you gave thanks for a bunch of stuff you are thankful for.
I hope you ate turkey. With cranberry sauce from a can, just to make me feel better.
I hope you had homemade biscuits. Because clearly it balances out the totally NOT homemade cranberry sauce. I’m all about balance.
I’m thankful for my hubby, my family, happy memories, and of course you.
Here, have some biscuits.
Click here for the recipe.
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: biscuits hate me.
They don’t rise or puff up or have that beautiful fluffy texture. No. Not for me. They usually taste good, which is the most important part of baking… but sometimes I would just like to turn out some aesthetically pleasing biscuits. Is one time too much to ask? *sigh* I’ll keep plugging away hoping to find my mistake and one day, ONE DAY I will turn out marvelous, glorious, sky high biscuits. I have faith.
Aside from the aesthetic disappointment, these were the best tasting biscuits I’ve made so far, which made me realize that I like my biscuits on the sweeter side. They came together VERY quickly (no waiting for butter to come to room temperature, few simple ingredients, mix and shape and you’re done) and tasted delicious!
I hope to master the art of biscuit making and I think I’ll use this recipe as my guinea pig. Cross your fingers for me 🙂
Thank you to Melissa of Love At First Bite for choosing these yummy biscuits. Head on over to her blog for the recipe and don’t forget to stop by all of the other bakers’ blogs to see how wonderfully puffy their biscuits came out.
Up next week: Chockablock Cookies (which I have already made and boy, oh boy. Delish!)
This will be a short(er) post than normal. I don’t have much to say regarding these biscuits. In a few words…
They didn’t rise.
SO I decided to market them as soft sweet potato cookies. I told the story and offered them to my coworkers and they were well received!! So,
I think my biscuits went south because I used a glass cup to cut the biscuits rather than a sharp biscuit cutter. I must remember to invest in some of those!
So, lessons I’ve learned:
* Don’t over-handle the dough. Stop JUST BEFORE you think its done.
* I need to invest in biscuit cutters AND a pastry cutter.
* Check the expiration date of your baking powder/soda BEFORE you bake.
* I must make these again. Simply because they tasted so good (and because I had tons of fun mashing up the sweet potatoes!)
For the recipe please visit Erin’s blog Prudence Pennywise and oogle her delicious goodies!! And for a better visual of these biscuits, visit the TWD blogroll!
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