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april Donating Member (826 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-08 12:20 PM
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Hi here is the question Baking a cake in a small pumpkin?
So I want to try to bake a cake in a pumpkin ? I know this may seen odd but I have done rice and other items in squash so the question is ...what have you baked in a squash ?
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-08 01:43 PM
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1. I've only done fillings where the moisture content wasn't
a real issue. Whole grain fillings are especially nice.

However, the cake batter would be a real problem because of the steam provided by the pumpkin shell. Cakes have a pretty rigid liquid to flour ratio and I don't think the results would be optimum. While the center might set, the exterior would be slime.

If you have a steel mixing bowl about the size of the hollow in the pumpkin, bake the cake in that and transfer it into the shell for presentation.
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-08 05:21 PM
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2. I've baked ground, spiced meats with cheese on top
Browned the ground sausage and filled a small pumpkin for individual servings. Topped with cheese to melt at the last. I also add some veggies into the meat while browning like onion and diced zucchini so the filling isn't so heavy on the meat.
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Arkansas Granny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-08 07:27 PM
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3. You'll never know until you try. If you cut the pumpkin across the center
so the cavity was shallow and had more surface area than if you just cut the top out, it just might work. I'd go for it. If you mess up you haven't lost that much and you might just come up with something really novel. Half the fun of cooking is the experimentation.

Be sure to let us know how it comes out.
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The empressof all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-08 08:04 PM
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4. I've had Custard baked in a tiny pumpkin
It was excellent. I don't know how they did it though. It would be an easy thing to try though with just one pumpkin as a test.
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Arkansas Granny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-08 09:49 AM
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6. That reminded me of a recipe I had seen for baking pumpkin custard
in the pumpkin. They baked the pumpkin first, let it cool and then poured the custard mixture in and baked it until the custard was done.

I wonder if baking the pumpkin before pouring the cake batter in would reduce the moisture in the pumpkin pulp enough that it wouldn't have much effect on the cake. I also noticed in the pictures that they had cut the pumpkin in such a way as to make it more of a straight sided container with a larger opening than would normally be made for a jack-o-lantern.

http://www.forkandbottle.com/cooking/recipes/pumpkin_pie_in_a_pumpkin.htm
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-08 08:22 PM
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5. I think that Warpy's comments
about the tight moisture content are well founded. I wonder if lining the inside of the shell with foil or parchment paper would provide a sufficient moisture barrier. Hmmm. :think:
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