Pumpkin Chiffon cake

More pumpkin stuff...

Ingredients:

Egg 4

Flour 50g

Sugar 80g

(Sourdough Starter 20g)

Pumpkin puree 100g

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This is a variation of my sourdough chiffon cake. It's as light and airy as the original sourdough chiffon cake. But with a bit more moisture, and of course, the sweet pumpkin flavour and pretty colour. ;D

We had it with my recent favourite, hazelnut praline cream. Pumpkin and hazelnut went really well. It was another 'wow' moment... ;)

Sourdough Pumpkin Bread

Pumpkins, pumpkins, pumpkins...

They get their prime spots everywhere this time of year, don't they...:)

Lots of pumpkins around means... I'm making lots of pumpkin breads and cakes! :D

To begin with, I made mini sourdough pumpkin loaves.

Ingredients:

Strong flour 250g

Starter 125g

Salt 4g

Brown sugar 20g

Butter 20g

Milk 160g

Pumpkin puree 100g

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Butter and cinnamon sugar for topping

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When I make pumpkin breads or cakes, I use Japanese pumpkins called Kabocha. It has natural sweet flavour and nice fluffy texture that are perfect for baking.

My pumpkin loaves came out with bright yellow colour and had a nice light texture. The cinnamon sugar on the top made them taste warm and it felt kind of festive... it was just how I wanted...;) 

She loved it too! Great way to make your kids eat veggie!

Happy Halloween - Pumpkin cookies!

Happy Halloween! Tick or Treat!

Following my Jack-o'-lantern black cream puffs, I made Halloween pumpkin cookies!

I say 'Pumpkin' cookies, but they actually have no pumpkins in it...sorry...
They are made of one of my favourite biscuits, the Almond Ball Biscuit (recipe is on Biscuit Assortment). I added a bit of orange food colourings and shaped them like mini pumpkins.

It was a little bit time consuming to shape them but it was worth the effort. I was very pleased with how they came out. ;)

I used a chop stick to make the lines and put a pumpkin seed on the top.

I also made one Dokin-chan for Lana. ;)

(It's a famous cartoon character in Japan.)

Before drawing the faces. They looked so cute. :)

I can see myself making other shapes...

(This could be on my Christmas baking list....)

Halloween Cream Puff

Scary looking pumpkins and fancy dresses... yes, Halloween is here again!

I've been doing some Halloween baking this week and this is one of them.... Halloween special black Jack-o'-lantern cream puffs1

The pastry itself is my usual choux pastry with black food colouring. However the cream inside is the special thing of these guys! It's Pumpkin Cream! I added pureed pumpkin to custard cream and combined with whipped cream.
They are seriously, dangerously tasty!

It was very difficult to see if the pastries were going brown or not, but I think I judged it well. ;) They looked a bit like giant snails... ;D

Happy Halloween, everyone! Don't open the front door to strangers...;)

Happy Halloween

I'm waiting... I'm still waiting for the knock knock on the door... so far no one has come...

Anyway, Happy Halloween.
Boo Boo Boo!

I don't remember anyone actually knocking on the door on Halloween, nor I've never been around to other people's house to get sweets. However, Andy told me that kids might come around for trick or treat, so I baked some funny face biscuits and went to a shop to get some sweets.

BUT..., no one came... it's 9pm... I think kids must have gone to bed by now. Oooh well, at least they are treats for me then. ;D

My another Halloween treat was a super creamy fake pumpkin soup (it was squash...) with a rather scary looking flat purple bread. It tasted awesome and I ate so much that I felt like I was pregnant again...