What do you guys do with your left over egg yolks when you have a large cake that requires only egg whites? I would hate to let 1 1/2 dozen of egg yolks go to waste.
You can freeze them, Nanas.sweet.treats. I lightly grease a plastic ice tray and put one yolk in each ice compartment and freeze them. Once frozen, I turn them out of the tray into a Ziploc bag and return to the freezer. Easy to remove one at a time for later use.
Another thought - sometimes when a recipe calls for six egg whites, I use three whole eggs instead. The color is slightly more yellow, but it works fine, unless you need a super white cake.
I recalled a forum post from the past and looked it up....jeez is it really from 2008??? It has some egg yolk suggestions.
https://www.cakecentral.com/forum/t/582358/what-to-do-with-egg-yolks
Quote by @SandraSmiley on 16 hours ago
You can freeze them, Nanas.sweet.treats. I lightly grease a plastic ice tray and put one yolk in each ice compartment and freeze them. Once frozen, I turn them out of the tray into a Ziploc bag and return to the freezer. Easy to remove one at a time for later use.
So you just freeze the egg yolk as is? I didn't know you could do that? I thought freezing them by themselves causes them to become too gelatinous for use. So I usually mix my egg yolks with some sugar so I can use them later to make creme brulee or ice cream. But if freezing individually works just fine then I may start doing that.
Freckles0829, I have had no problems just freezing them by themselves. It does change the texture a bit, make them thicker (I guess gelatinous would be a good description), but they work just fine in baked goods. That is the only way I've used them. I didn't know any better, and you know how they say ignorance is bliss.
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