Development and Production of Baked Pastillas With Carabao’s Milk by the Bakeshop and Pastry of Bulacan State University

Pastillas, literally known as milk candies, is an integral part of food culture, and one of the favorite sweet delicacies or desserts among Filipinos. Traditionally such sweet munchies are made from carabao’s milk and sugar, now with different flavors. The well-known ‘Pastillas De Borlas’, smooth in texture, creamy, shaped into small cylinder, and wrapped into tin and shiny paper is worthy of recognition in specifically in Bulacan and in Pampanga. This study examined the developed and production of baked pastillas with carabao’s milk produced by the Bulacan State University (BulSU) bakeshop and pastry. The study specified the development and production of the produce as well as the carabao’s milk as a highlight ingredient of the product. The researchers subjected the merchandise into microbial testing including its aerobic plate count, total coliform count, total yeast and molds count, and staphylococcus aureus count. Using survey questionnaires on randomly selected clients of the BulSU baked shop and pastry,the acceptability of the product was attained. The product Passed the standard value showing the sensory attributes with an overall mean of 4.5 and with the verbal interpretation of Best.