Eggs and baking! Quick help needed

Nix143

Hello, I'm making a cake and it asks for 2 large eggs - and guess what? I've got medium sized ones

So can someone quickly tell me which of these would give me the best result - 2 med eggs (too little egg) or 3 medium eggs (too much egg). it's a chocolate orange sponge cake thing from Nigella that I've never baked before and it has LOADS of good choc in it so I don't want to mess it up

Cheers ears!

CLARABEL

i would whisk egg 3 and use half of it.

x

filigree_2

For a cake I would use two whole eggs and one yolk to make it richer.

Penelope_Penguin

Hi, Nix! I would always veer on the side of too much egg. Helps a cake to rise. Though I expect you've made the cake now. Any chance of a slice? How does it taste?

Penny. x

Nix143

Hullo!

Thanks for the advice

Well I made the cake with 2 and a bit eggs, didnt think to just use the yolk - DOH! And it came out verrrrrrrrrrrry well, would recommend Nigellas choc orange cake any day - very plain cake but it's a bit like eating the cake equivalent of a Terrys Choclit Orange and that has to be a good thing! Was really really easy to make though

csarina

You can use cold water as a replacement for an egg, you just put two half eggshell fulls in for one egg, so you could have used 1 half eggshell full to make your two meduim eggs up...... it makes a lovely light sponge, I often use this methos when I run short of eggs.

Zed42

That Nigella cake is lush, if we're talking the one with marmalade?

Tastes gorgeous slightly warmed with cream ....... apparently, cough ... and trundles of to serve herself a slice

gargoyle

Can you use eggs once past their use by date?

pudding06

can you use eggs once past their use by date?

how far past their sell by date are they?

pudds

gargoyle

about a week

pollyanna24

I always use 2 med eggs even if the recipes says 2 large. Cos they're not gona be that much larger, are they?

And I still use eggs ages after the best before date cos I keep mine in the fridge. I just do that pint of water trick. It it floats, chuck it out, if it sinks, it's okay to eat. I don't tell bf that though, he don't need to know!:rotfl: