Hi! Newbie here! I am planning on baking a cake for my friend's baby shower and she requested for chocolate cake with chocolate filling. I found a recipe with great reviews that calls for raw egg yolk in the frosting. What are your thoughts about serving frosting w/ raw eggs in it ESPECIALLY at a baby shower? Would it be ok if I just omit it? TIA
Hmmmm! Without the recipe it would be hard to say if it could be omitted. I would run as fast as I could away from that. As children have been born over the ages we have all eaten raw eggs(as our Mothers bakes and we licked the bowl and/or beaters), but I wouldnt want anyone sick on my behalf. List the recipe and I am sure that you will get a better answer.
HTH!!!
Honestly I wouldn't do that but what about a swiss buttercream which cooks the egg whites but you can add cooled chocolate to the finished buttercream to make it chocolate.
mamacha, don't use anything with raw eggs, especially for a baby shower. I'm sure we all have had raw eggs before, but I wouldn't want anyone to get sick, especially not the mother-to-be. Hard to know though, without seeing the recipe.
There are plenty of recipes out there that don't use raw eggs in the frosting and are as delicious.
The old and the young (including the unborn) are most succeptible to the problems with raw eggs. I am a cake batter lover, but I would never serve raw eggs to people I did not know or people who did not know there are raw eggs on the recipe. My key lime pie is only baked for ten minutes, my favorite eggnog recipe calls for raw eggs, and I grew up on raw eggs in milkshakes. And none of these are offered in my bakery. Of all the recipes out there, I'm sure you can find something more appropriate.
personally, with all the alternatives out there, i just don't feel it's worth the risk.
GL!
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