It's that time of year when all of our hens are laying and it feels like we have eggs and eggs and eggs for days! So what do you do with all those eggs? Cook with them of course. I'm sure you've been eating eggs every day for breakfast though (aren't we all?) so what else can we make with lots of eggs? Desserts and more desserts!!
Luckily (since we're not yet into the heat of Summer) it's a perfect time to make baked desserts and other dishes using all those excess eggs. The current slightly cool temps mean baking warms the kitchen without overheating the house. So grab your egg basket and get ready for dessert!
I checked in with the best food bloggers the interwebs has to offer and found some of the most A-mazing dessert recipes and some of them use as many of 13 eggs! I told you we could use up those eggs.
Related reading: How to freeze raw eggs.
Because I absolutely have to organize things, I've listed these recipes in order of how many whole eggs they use. What started out as a small list of 20ish recipes soon turned in to a massive list of amazing desserts from some of the best recipe creators on the internet!
So without further chit chat here are the absolute best dessert recipes to use up your extra eggs!
10 eggs
Brazo de Mercedes Cupcake
8 eggs + 5 egg whites
Jiggly Fluffy Japanese cheesecake
7 eggs + 3 whites
Lemon Curd cake with White Chocolate Swiss Buttercream
7 eggs + 2 whites
Mini Eclairs with Lime Custard Filling & Meringue Topping
7 eggs
Daredevil's Impossible cake (separating custard/fudge cake)
6 eggs
Six egg pound cake
Grain Free Chocolate Almond cake
Vanilla Buttermilk cake with Strawberry Buttercream frosting
Gluten-Free Cream Cheese Pound cake
Bløtkake - Norwegian Cream Cake
Best Flourless Chocolate Truffle cake (gluten free)
Sculptured Lemon Buttermilk Pound cake (gluten free)
Chocolate Cream Cake with Ricotta
Fancy Chocolate Charlotte cake
Most Delicious Italian Angeletti cookies
5 eggs + 4 yolks
Italian Rum cake
5 Eggs + 4 whites
Lazy Girl's Meyer Lemon Meringue tart
5 eggs + 3 yolks
Extra rich and creamy cheesecake
5 eggs
Cranberry Pecan Pound cake
Grandma's Chocolate pie
Old Fashioned Lemon Meringue pie
Blender Batter Keto Lemon Blueberry bread
Pan de Elote, Mexican Sweet Corn cake
Blueberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake
3 Ingredient Souffle cheesecake
4 eggs + 1 yolk
Chocolate Pound cake with Kahlua Glaze
4 eggs
Overnight creme brulee french toast bake
Butterscotch pie with Meringue Topping
Cranberry Cream Cheese loaf
Classic flan
Victoria Sponge cake with Balsamic Strawberries
The Best Carrot cake Ever with Cream Cheese frosting
Cookie Butter Cheesecake Recipe
Creamy Limoncello Italian Ricotta Cake
Carrot cake(gluten free)
Meyer Lemon Buttermilk Pound cake
Chocolate pound cake with chocolate ganache
Mini Pavlovas with Tangerine curd
Cookies N Cream Oreo Cheesecake
Flourless Banana Zucchini loaf
Decadent Double Chocolate mousse
Caramel Apple Cream Puffs
Lemon Pudding cake
3 eggs + 1 yolk
Delicious Lemon Curd
Dessert recipes using only egg yolks
Pair the recipes in this next section with the recipes below that use only egg whites.
12 yolks
12 Yolk Pound cake
9 egg yolks
Old Fashioned Eggnog
7 yolks + 1 whole egg
Egg Custard tarts
7 yolks
Passion Fruit tart
6 egg yolks
Creme-brulee
5 yolks
Brown Sugar Ice Cream
4 yolks + 3wholeeggs
Cream Puffs with Pastry Cream
4 yolks + 1wholeegg
Creme brulee(keto)
4 egg yolks
Chocolate mousse
3 egg yolks + 3 whole eggs
Traditional Cuban flan
Dessert recipes using only egg whites
Pair the recipes in this section with the recipes above that use only egg yolks.
12 egg whites
Angel Food cake
8 egg white
French Macarons with Espresso Chocolate ganache
4 egg whites
Purple Flower Meringue cookies
Pistachio Poke cake
Cheeselova, Cheesecake & Pavlova Love Child
Strawberry Pavlova with Mezcal & Lime
Is it just me, or are you suddenly hungry too? Do you have a recipe in mind to make first? I'm slowly making my way through this list and everything has just been amazing! Plus, I'm finally running out of eggs.
Sorry if my organization method seemed a little wonky...I'm not a recipe creator so I wasn't sure how I should order them. Whoops. I hope you enjoyed the list!
Want some new breakfast recipes to use up extra eggs? Check out my recipes for cloud eggs, quiche and more.
~L
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