Baked Alaska with a Lighter! How to Make Baked Alaska Ice Cream Cake

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Baked Alaska with a Lighter

I’ve ever wanted to create a Baked Alaska, too alongside Valentine’s Day coming up, I see it would hold upwardly the perfect fourth dimension to demonstrate this show-stopping dessert. I merely didn’t anticipate coming upwardly alongside perhaps the greatest browning meringue hack inwards history.

As you’ll come across inwards the video, I made ii of these, hence I could exhibit y’all a yoke dissimilar ways to decorate. After browning the outset 1 alongside a blowtorch, my preferred method, I started on the second, too for whatever argue the torch stopped working.

I was merely nearly to plough on the oven, where y’all tin complete these at 500°F until browned, when I had an idea. I’d merely bought a windproof lighter to purpose when grilling inwards the backyard, too wondered if the tiny jet open fire that shoots out from the tip would hold upwardly hot plenty to create the job. It was, too it did.

As far equally the actual recipe itself, there’s actually non a lot that tin larn wrong. As long equally y’all freeze your H2O ice cream cake thoroughly earlier browning the meringue, too ready your saccharide syrup to 240°F, yours volition expect merely similar mine, or better.

There are apparently unlimited combinations of cake too H2O ice cream flavors y’all tin purpose for this, hence I advise consulting alongside your Valentine, too giving this piece of cake Baked Alaska technique a stimulate rattling soon. Enjoy!
For 2 Baked Alaska:
Note: You tin build these ahead, including the piping, freeze, too hence brownish the meringue earlier serving.
  • 1 1/2 cups raspberry H2O ice cream
  • 1/2 loving cup vanilla H2O ice cream
  • 2 circular thick slices chocolate cake
For the Italian meringue:
  • 2 large egg whites
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
  • – vanquish to soft peak, too piece of cake add together 240 F. saccharide syrup (see below)
  • – maintain beating until y’all bring potent peaks that volition concord a abrupt draw
For the saccharide syrup:
  • 1/2 loving cup white sugar
  • 1/4 loving cup water
FLAMBE NOTE: First of all, hold upwardly careful. Pour an ounce or hence of whatever liqueur (I used brandy but cherry liqueur or Framboise would hold upwardly fifty-fifty better) into a pan too house on depression heat. When it’s warm plenty y’all tin it ignite alongside a lighter, too spoon the flaming liquid over your baked Alaska. Just hold upwardly certain to plough downwards the lights!