Egg Recipes

Soft, pillowy potato doughnuts made with mashed potatoes and buttermilk, fried golden, and dipped in a quick chocolate fudge frosting. This big-batch recipe yields about 48 doughnuts.

Pfitzauf, the German popover relative from Swabia. A tall, hollow, eggy baked pastry with crisp walls and a steamy interior. Five ingredients, impressive rise.

Pop-up pizza bakes a seasoned ground beef and cheese filling under a puffed golden batter crust. A fun family-friendly casserole with all the pizza flavors and none of the dough-stretching.

Maple walnut poundcake with a cinnamon walnut streusel swirl and pancake syrup sweetening the batter. A dense, tender tube-pan cake that makes its own maple glaze as the streusel melts during baking.

Apple cobbler cake: a dense, oil-based bundt cake loaded with chopped apples and toasted pecans. Moist, fruit-heavy and fall-friendly. The kind of cake that lives on the kitchen counter.

Traditional Greek moussaka with layers of fried eggplant, potatoes, and ground beef topped with a nutmeg-spiced bechamel sauce with Romano cheese.

Traditional English plum pudding, a steamed Christmas classic packed with raisins, currants, apples, walnuts, and beef suet. Spiced, dense, and deeply boozy-optional.

One-bowl orange marmalade tube cake with warm spices, chopped walnuts, and a hint of lemon. A bittersweet British-style tea cake that dusts clean from a vanilla-wafer-lined pan.

Chiles rellenos stuffed with Monterey Jack cheese, dipped in a cornmeal batter, and fried golden brown. The cornmeal coating adds a crispy crunch that traditional egg-only batters can't match.

Boston cream pie from scratch with a sponge cake split and filled with vanilla custard, topped with a glossy chocolate ganache glaze. The classic American dessert done right with three handmade components.

Classic old fashioned pound cake with lemon extract, fresh lemon juice, and zest baked in a tube pan. Dense, buttery, and rich with six eggs and evaporated milk.

Veggie burgers in pita bread are homemade grain patties of barley, lentils, and rice with carrots, onion, and sunflower seeds, pan-fried golden and stuffed into warm pita pockets with lettuce and tomato.

Greek feta bread with crumbled feta and whole eggs sealed inside a honey-sweetened yeast dough, topped with poppy seeds and baked golden. A savory stuffed loaf worth the rise time.

Margarita shrimp with fettuccine: tequila-lemon-marinated shrimp dipped in egg and flour, seared, and served over pasta with a lemon-ginger-wine butter sauce.

Fiddlehead quiche with foraged fern shoots, mushrooms, sharp cheddar, scallions, and crisp bacon in a flaky crust. A celebration of spring forest flavors.

Baked marmalade pancake: a Dutch baby-style oven pancake with puffed golden edges, almond extract, and a sweet swirl of orange marmalade and powdered sugar. Brunch theater in 30 minutes.