Help - missed an egg out of recipe

[Eminybob]

Just put DC's birthday cake in the oven and realised I've only put 7 eggs in not 8. I did think the mixture was a little stiff, but I decided to trust the process.

How much of a disaster will this be.

The other ingredients we 400g sugar/flour/butter.

Do I need to go out and get more eggs to make another?

O% disaster. It won't make a difference.

Oh, amazing news, thank you

What kind of cake was it? Standard madeira or chocolate will be fine.

😂What type of cake is this that needs 8 eggs? I'm sure it will be fine OP.

On that many eggs I think it will be fine. It's a 12% difference and I reckon that eggs vary that much in side anyway. I always ignore the instructions about which size of egg anyway.

I always put less eggs than the recipe, always on cakes and brownies !

your cake might taste better this way x

A big one!

It's a 35x25 rectangular cake. I want to get a good rise on it as I want to slice and sandwich it.

But 400g of other ingredients isn't that big - a cake with 400g of other ingredients would usually be more like 4 eggs. I always do my eggs by weight, so weigh the eggs & use the same weight of flour etc. so if 4 eggs weighed eg 420g, that's how much butter, flour etc I would use. An egg usually weighs about 50g or a bit more.
So to me 8 eggs would be way too much for 400g flour.

Isn't it 1200g of of other ingredients though?

It's not 4oz each of butter, sugar and flour making 12oz (i.e. a 2 egg sponge), it's 12oz each (so to my mind a 6 egg sponge, but presumably this is a slightly different recipe).

Edited: realise my ounce calculations in my head are a bit wonky. 133g would be 5oz and 400g would be about 14oz so actually a 7 egg sponge.

Same here - I always weigh the eggs first then use that same amount for the dry ingredients each. Never fails me!

It's 400g each of the other ingredients. The batter was very thick, I would have been a dough with 4 eggs.

I usually make a Victoria sponge with 200g each flour/butter/sugar and 4 eggs and it turns out perfectly.

*it would have been a dough

Oh, yes I can't do my sums!
200g = 4 eggs
400g = 8 eggs
It'll be fine!

At least you only missed one, last time my mum forgot all eggs.

Is it out of the oven yet OP?

Hope it turned out ok!

Yes just out. Looks fine, thank you.
I guess the proof will be in the eating. Luckily just a bunch of 10 year olds eating it and it'll be covered in icing so I'm sure I won't get any complaints

Excellent!!

(Quite proud of myself for not putting eggscellent 😂)