Baking using duck eggs...suggestions please

Master 3 has arrived home from the farm and handed over his little collection (2 dozen!) of duck eggs he helped to collect.

 

Now I have never used duck eggs before, so need some help 🙂

 

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My neighbour uses them to bake cakes...she reckons they make the best cakes ever.

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They make the best sponge cakes......

 

mmmm red jam and cream with a dusting of icing sugar

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Master 3 loves cake, but must be plain, no jam or cream! I mean what kid doesn't like jam and cream lol

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we used to have ducks years ago, and as everyone here is saying, the duck eggs do make great cakes. IMO they are a bit too strong tasting to use as poached, boiled eggs etc. but fantastic to use for baking

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Just use them instead of chook eggs, accounting for their size.  🙂  

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They have a higher fat content, and the cakes rise higher than with chooken eggs.

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My Mum and Aunties always used them for baking sponge cakes. Does your grandson like jelly? Sponge with a jelly layer in the middle is nice (bit fiddly).

 

As Debra said the duck eggs do have a strong taste. I didn't like them much when I was a kid, not even in the sponges.

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be careful your eggs dont quack

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@*ibis wrote:

be careful your eggs dont quack


Woman LOL

 

What does an ibis egg look like?

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