3rd EXPERIMENT- PUMPKIN CAKE

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Before the task;

On 10th March 2010, Wednesday in Kitchen A, Block A, UNITAR. This is our third class in experimental food using our own idea. For this week, we used pumpkin flour instead of boiled pumpkin , and added along with diced pumpkin. Then, this week we did 1 experiment (50 self raising flour:50 pumpkin flour). As usual, we started our class with 'Al-Fatihah'. Before we can start our experiment, we were given a short briefing.

During the task;

Before starting to bake our cake, we have to do pumpkin flour. These are the methods to do the flour:

1. Heat the oven.
2. Clean the pumpkin. Remove the skin and seeds.
3. Slice the pumpkin using mandoline. Adjust the mandoline so that the pumpkin can be sliced thinly.
4. Place a parchment paper onto the tray. Prepare few trays so that it will be easy for baking the sliced pumpkin.
5. Arrange the sliced pumpkin onto the tray.
6. Bake the sliced pumpkin until it turns dry, crispy and golden-brown colour.
7. Remove the pumpkin chips into a dry bowl, let them cool for a moment before blending them.
8. Blend the pumpkin chips until they turns into flour.
9. Repeat the same steps until there are no more sliced pumpkin left.
10.Now, the pumpkin flour can be use.

Ingredients for 50:50 ;

• 250 g butter
• 175 g Castor sugar
• 3 nos Eggs
• 1 tsp Vanilla essence
• 120 g Self raising flour
• 120 pumpkin flour
• 200 g Diced Pumpkin(diced and cooked)
• 1 tsp Lemon juice
• 1 tsp olive oil
• 3/4 cup Milk

Method ;

1. Boiled the water and add in the dice pumpkin. Grease the sides and base and line a loaf pan with parchment paper.
2. Beat butter, sugar and vanilla essence until light and creamy.
3. Add in eggs one at a time beating well after addition.
4. Then, add in the self raising flour and the pumpkin flour. Keep stirring until it is well mixed.
5. After that add in the milk, boiled dice pumpkin, olive oil and lemon juice. Keep stirring.
6. Pour the mixture into prepared pan and bake it for 50 minutes.

After the task;

The taste of the product is much more better.

Conclusion;

This experiment, is much more better in term of the taste of the product.