6th EXPERIMENT- PUMPKIN CAKE&MUFFIN

Assalamualaikum...

Before the task;

On 7 April 2010, Wednesday in Kitchen A, Block A, UNITAR. This is our sixth class and the last class in experimental food using our own idea before the I-Food Exhibition Event. For this week, we used pumpkin flour and added along with diced pumpkin. Then, this week we did 1 experiment (70 self raising flour:30 pumpkin flour) .

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 70:30 ;

• 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
• Food colour (apple green, rose red, pink & orange)

Method ;

1. Boiled the water and add in the dice pumpkin.
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 muffin cup and decorate the top of each muffin with different of food colour. Use stick to move the drop of the colour.
7. Bake them at 180 C for 30 minutes.

After the task;

We have decided to use this recipe for the I-Food Exhibition Event.

Conclusion;

We are very positive that this product is have the potential in the future, it is because we managed to develop this product into several recipe.