Can I increase a recipe by 20% safely?

corey.schwanz

Hello! So the Joule app just got updated with custards and I started drooling. I've always been more of a custard kind of guy instead of straight sweet desserts as it is, so I'm super excited to try something out. My main stopping point so far is that the recipes all say "Makes for 5 servings." Once a month my wife, my brother and his wife, and my parents all get together for a family dinner. 6 people, not five. For chocolate pot de creme for example, the recipe has 4oz/110g of egg yolks. Can I increase that by 20% (110g * .2 = 22g -> 132g), and follow the same procedure for everything else? Or do I have to suck it up and share with someone else?

Tess_Cavalieri_308018

I made the creme brûlée and changed the amount to exactly what I needed (was serving 14). I'd suggest you go to the recipe on the website and edit the "xx" grams for the first ingredient to whatever 1.2X the original recipe is, then all the other ingredients will follow suit perfectly! It's a great recipe for scaling up because you're still cooking the desserts in the same size containers, you just add a couple more! I'd suggest you bank on the side of safety and increase the scale to ~7 so you know you will have 6 full containers, then a little extra for the chef to taste 😊