3D food printing offers a solution to market demand for personalized foods. Extrusion 3D printing is the most useful and well researched 3D printing technology, and with its favourable rheological properties, cookie dough shows a great potential for shape formation. We designed the recipe based on data in the literature on the topic of 3D printing of cookie dough. By designing the recipe, we wanted to obtain a dough with good printability. In the recipes, we used different types of flour in different proportions to determine how different types of flour and their components affect the printability of the dough, shape retention during baking, and the textural properties of baked products. The type of flour affects the printability of the dough, mostly on account of protein, but more than printability, flour affects the extrudability. All but one of the samples were printed in a shape comparable to the 3D model. The biggest difference between the samples was in shape retention during baking. In this aspect, buckwheat and wheat flour performed best. The ratio of flour to other ingredients has had the greatest effect on shape retention during baking. With the increasing proportion of flour, there was less deformation during baking. Samples from wheat flour had the highest hardness. The recipe of 70.4 g of butter, 28.2 g of sucrose, 16.9 g of protein and 84.5 g of flour proved to be optimal for all types of flour, except for corn, where the optimal amount of flour was 74.5 g.
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