Interesting cake recipe using 13 eggs

[Tivona]

So in my quest to figure out how to use all the eggs I am getting each day I have been searching for tasty looking recipes using at least 4 eggs. Today I found a recipe called
Filipino Custard Chiffon Cake


I am loving the idea of the flan topped chiffon cake. Especially as I love both flans and chiffon cakes. The only thing about the recipe that is driving me nuts is that the chef never says anything about the pan size.

I have a tube pan that does chiffon cakes well but it gets pretty full with an 8 egg chiffon recipe. The cook mentions the fact that he or she had a problem with the center falling and recommended a tube pan as a possibility, although he or she used a round pan of some sort judging by the picture. Also the fact that this has the caramel and then the flan at the bottom of the pan seems to me that it would leak out the edges of the tube pan. So I am thinking no tube pan but searching through my pans I am having a hard time envisioning the correct size. Judging by the flans I have made then adding an 8 egg chiffon to the top seems like a rather large pan would be needed. So perhaps 2 pans seems like the way to go.

I plan on making it sometime in the next week and I will post my pan sizes and cooking time. However if anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear them. I am still scratching my head on the pans I should use.

 

[punk-a-doodle]

Sounds delicious! Traditional yellow cakes also use a lot of eggs...well, the yolks. They traditionally get their yellow color from egg yolks. Now most use food coloring though, and commercial eggs tend not to have enough color to them to make a real yellow cake!

Crepes are another tasty egg user, and can be used for dinner as well. One example would be a dinner crepe (usually these are made thicker, sometimes with heavier flours like whole wheat, and no or little sugar) stuffed with salmon, salad greens, veggies, and a rasberry vinegrette.

Dutch babies are a favorite of mine. Some powedered sugar, lemon juice and rasberries on top...mmmm.

 

[Tivona]

I had crepes for breakfast.

I think they are my absolute favorite way to use lots of eggs. So far I have done 3 different chiffon cakes, lemon meringue pie, key lime pie, lemon curd, cheese cake, creme puffs, 2 different flans, potato salad, fried rice (lots of times), egg rolls, Pad Thai (only 2 eggs in it), hmmm seems like I am missing a few. And of course fried, hard cooked, and scrambled. Problem is I have 8 eggs showing up daily. I just started salted duck eggs and am planning on trying to make cured egg yolks.

I suspect my ducks are trying to kill me...with tasty eggs.

 

[punk-a-doodle]

Best death ever! xD

 

[Tivona]

Best death ever! xD

Agreed!

I remember one of the recipes I have tried lately and forgot to mention. Brazilian Cheese Bread. I sort of used a hybrid of 2 recipes I found online and used 5 eggs in the rolls. Very very tasty. I will definitely be making them again. They are gluten free, using tapioca starch instead of regular flour and taste amazing. Didn't last long before they were all eaten up.

Still trying to figure out the pans for this cake. Currently pondering the use of loaf pans.

 

[SallyF]

In a fit of baking I found a recipe for 10-egg pound cake. I'm now using it for a doorstop. Cakery is not my gift, I guess. Better stick to mixes.

 

[Tivona]

In a fit of baking I found a recipe for 10-egg pound cake. I'm now using it for a doorstop. Cakery is not my gift, I guess. Better stick to mixes.

Sorry, can't resist picturing your cake with the door leaning up against it and a chicken glaring thinking I went to all the work laying those eggs and this is what you do with them.

Seriously though there are lots of things you can do to a cake mix cake to fancy it up. Very inventive people coming up with neat things they have done with cake mixes and posting them online for all of us. Plus cooking and baking are a learned thing and with each thing you bake you get a bit better. At least that is how I look at it.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Agreed!

I remember one of the recipes I have tried lately and forgot to mention. Brazilian Cheese Bread. I sort of used a hybrid of 2 recipes I found online and used 5 eggs in the rolls. Very very tasty. I will definitely be making them again. They are gluten free, using tapioca starch instead of regular flour and taste amazing. Didn't last long before they were all eaten up.

Still trying to figure out the pans for this cake. Currently pondering the use of loaf pans.

Recipe, please? or link to the 2 you combined?

 

[Tivona]

Recipe, please? or link to the 2 you combined?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/brazilian-cheese-rolls-aka-brazilian-cheese-bread

Let me know if you have any questions. Edited from 5 or 6 eggs to 4 to 6 eggs. Size of eggs makes a big difference, and I have made this a few more times and one batch needed only 4 as the eggs were larger.

 

[tour1018]

Thanks for the recipe on the cheese bread, I think I'll try to make it tomorrow!