{"id":391,"date":"2013-03-04T04:59:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T04:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/?p=391"},"modified":"2013-04-16T06:22:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T06:22:45","slug":"soft-boiled-eggs-in-cake-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Soft-boiled Eggs in Cake, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Frozen<\/a><\/p>\n

After being defeated last weekend by the Chocolate Egg Cupcakes<\/a>, Shamiq and I tried again. This time, we started with two sets of frozen eggs — softboiled for four minutes, and raw.<\/p>\n

\"Corn<\/a><\/p>\n

Plus some Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix…<\/p>\n

\"Warming<\/a><\/p>\n

For the softboiled then frozen eggs, I dunked them in hot water for a little bit to warm up the outside. My thinking was that an icy egg may release too much water and interfere with the corn muffin’s baking. The texture of a frozen egg white is pretty weird. It’s almost spongy.<\/p>\n

I put the eggs in the corn muffin batter, then baked…<\/p>\n

\"Sliiiice\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Lo and behold! A runny yolk. Victory was delicious.<\/p>\n

\"SEE<\/a><\/p>\n

Another shot of the runny yolk, because… why not?<\/p>\n

Documenting the science:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eggs used:<\/span>
\nEgg 1<\/strong>: Soft boiled for 4 minutes, then refrigerated
\nEgg 2<\/strong>: Soft boiled for 4 minutes, then frozen*
\nEgg 3<\/strong>: Frozen raw
\nEgg 4<\/strong>: Refrigerated\u00a0raw egg straight into the batter<\/p>\n

Results:<\/span> (After being peeled, and baked into corn muffin batter)
\nEgg 1<\/strong>: Yolk was more set than I’d like, but not quite hardboiled. It was at that… pudding like stage. 17 minutes.
\nEgg 2<\/strong>: Runny yolk! Hurray. Muffins baked for about 17 minutes to reach this state.
\nEgg 3<\/strong>: After about 20 minutes, the yolk was starting to set, but there was still some raw batter under the crackly surface of the top of the muffin. I scooped it out and the remaining muffin was pretty good. But raw batter is meh.
\nEgg 4<\/strong>: Yolk gets pretty set, and the egg white disappears into the corn muffin, for the most part.<\/p>\n

Shamiq’s Notes on Peeling Frozen Eggs:<\/strong>
\n1. dip egg in tap water
\n2. crack shell by whacking with edge of a spoon
\n3. whack one particular part with rounded part of spoon until shell is removed, then “push” upwards.<\/p>\n

* There was a second round with an egg that had been in the freezer for a few days, the muffin baked and the yolk came out still-frozen. I think freezing for a few hours is probably the sweet spot. Clearly more science is needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After being defeated last weekend by the Chocolate Egg Cupcakes, Shamiq and I tried again. This time, we started with two sets of frozen eggs — softboiled for four minutes, and raw. Plus some Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix… For the softboiled then frozen eggs, I dunked them in hot water for a little bit to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[30,19],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-baking","tag-experiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}