Effect of skim milk powder on the quality of Yazdi cake

Converting milk into milk powder increases its shelf life up to almost 1 year, without substantial loss of quality, even at ambient temperatures. Dairy powder is frequently used because of convenience in applications for transportation, handling, processing, and ease of product formulations. Functional properties of milk powder are important due to its wide range of applications, especially in bakery products requiring desirable texture and moisture content. These functional properties include emulsification, foaming, water absorption, viscosity, gelation, and heat stability. Fresh milk and milk products such as condensed or dried milk which have not been exposed to sufficient heat treatment are not suitable for good quality bakery products as properly heated milk, mainly due to the destruction of proteolytic enzymes by heat, denaturation and coagulation of the proteins, changes in the colloidal properties of the salt and alterations in the oxidation-reduction systems. Kirk (1971) has outlined a list of functional contributions provided by skim milk powder (SMP) in various bakery food products, such as increased absorption, buffering value, lactose color reaction, tenderizing effect, improved body and resilience of crumb. This is in agreement with the results showed by Pyler who added SMP to bread and cake affected. Pyler noted the advantages of lactose in food systems. Lactose mostly affect relative sweetness, browning reaction, protein stabilizing properties, alteration of crystallization patterns, flavor accentuation, selective fermentation, and has nutritional value.
Yazdi cake was produced using baking wheat flour (from Golha factory), sugar (sucrose), hydrogenated vegetable shortening, baking powder, and baking soda. Eggs were bought the day before baking and refrigerated at 4°C. The dough was prepared in ratio of 30 % oil, 46 % sugar, 50 % water, 11.7 % eggs, 4 % baking powder and 1 % baking soda rather than flour. For improvements of flavor and taste, an equal value of vanilla was added to the whole dough formulations. Skim milk powder containing 1.5 % fat, 3-4 % moisture has bought from Pegah factory. 25 and 50 percent of skim milk powder was also added to the dough. Dough was prepared based on the method of double mixture steps and was baked at 180°C in oven for 30 min. Samples were vacuumed and kept at ambient temperature for further experiments
Result and The differences in specific volume and consistency of the dough values were found to be significant (p>0.01). According to Baeva studies, there is an inverse relationship between specific gravity and the entry air bubbles in the dough, so the sample with 50% had the lowest specific volume. The consistency of the dough increased significantly by increasing in SMP content (P