Can I make a cake with only one egg?

mrbadexample

Double egg and chips.

Oh, a cake! :doh:

This parkin recipe uses one egg. Although it should be left to improve for a couple of days, so might be a bit short notice.

Little_Vics

any basic sponge recipe can be cut down, so I'd use 4oz marge, 4oz sugar, 4oz flour and 2 egs for the sponge, then add whatever you have to give it the flavour you like.

Fruball

Little_Vics wrote: »

any basic sponge recipe can be cut down, so I'd use 4oz marge, 4oz sugar, 4oz flour and 2 egs for the sponge, then add whatever you have to give it the flavour you like.

That is what I would do... but I use butter

Fill with jam if you have it.

If you have icing sugar you could make a buttercream frosting and filling if you don't have jam.

HTH

JulieGeorgiana

I always weigh my eggs... if two eggs weigh 4 oz, then I use 4oz of flour, butter and sugar!

So you can always make a small sponge of cupcakes and ice them!!

lisa26_2

Thanks for the ideas guys, good old Bero came good and I ended up making a gingerbread loaf, I'm hoping 24 hours will be enough to improve it so its nice and sticky but we can always have it for pud with custard if not! I have to say, so far it looks like being the best cake I've baked in the electric fan oven in this house...I HATE it! Give me gas any day!

Penelope_Penguin

Try these threads:

Cake without eggs

Can I make a cake with only one egg?

Purple_kitten

Does anyone have any sweet recipes that only use an egg. Most seem to take 2, I did try to use one in some banana cupcakes but the little rock cakes turned out badly :rotfl:

Pink.

Hi Purple Kitten,

This thread may help:

Can I make a cake with only one egg?

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

Charliex

CHOCOLATE CRUNCH
142g / 5oz Self Raising Flour
142g / 5oz Plain Flour
142g / 5oz Sugar
142g / 5oz Margarine
1 egg
(28g) 1oz to (56g) 2oz Coco powder
2 drops of Vanilla Extract

Melt the fat in a pan, add 2 drops of vanilla extract.Mix in the Sugar, Coco powder and flour.
Beat in 1 egg

Place in to greased tin, push down really firmly. It will be dry, thats ok.

Brush with water and sprinkle liberally with more sugar.

Bake at 180c (350f, Gas Mark 4) for 30 mins Yummy with custard, just as nice the day after as a kind of biscuit. I have also made this with just self raising flour and it was lovely.

Lovelyjoolz

When baking sponges, the assumption is that 1 egg = 2 ounces. So if you follow that rule, you should be able to make a small batch of fairy cakes:

2 oz butter
2 oz sugar
1 egg
2 oz flour

Add 1/4 tsp of vanilla essence to the (beaten) egg for a lovely vanilla flavour.

You'll get about 6-8 fairy cake sized or 3-4 muffin case sized cakes.