Baked Alaska Alongside A Lighter? Yous Betcha!

I’ve ever wanted to produce a Baked Alaska, together with amongst Valentine’s Day coming up, I persuasion it would hold upward the perfect fourth dimension to demonstrate this show-stopping dessert. I simply didn’t anticipate coming upward amongst mayhap the greatest browning meringue hack inwards history.

As you’ll run across inwards the video, I made 2 of these, hence I could demo you lot a twosome dissimilar ways to decorate. After browning the kickoff 1 amongst a blowtorch, my preferred method, I started on the second, together with for whatever argue the torch stopped working.

I was simply almost to plough on the oven, where you lot tin move complete these at 500°F until browned, when I had an idea. I’d simply bought a windproof lighter to purpose when grilling inwards the backyard, together with wondered if the tiny jet open fire that shoots out from the tip would hold upward hot plenty to produce the job. It was, together with it did.

As far equally the actual recipe itself, there’s actually non a lot that tin move become wrong. As long equally you lot freeze your H2O ice cream cake thoroughly earlier browning the meringue, together with develop your saccharide syrup to 240°F, yours volition expect simply similar mine, or better.

There are evidently unlimited combinations of cake together with H2O ice cream flavors you lot tin move purpose for this, hence I propose consulting amongst your Valentine, together with giving this piece of cake Baked Alaska technique a seek really soon. Enjoy!

For 2 Baked Alaska:

Note: You tin move build these ahead, including the piping, freeze, together with hence chocolate-brown 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

- trounce to soft peak, together with piece of cake add together 240 F. saccharide syrup (see below)

- move out on beating until you lot convey potent peaks that volition concur a abrupt draw

For the saccharide syrup:

1/2 loving cup white sugar

1/4 loving cup water

FLAMBE NOTE: First of all, hold upward careful. Pour an ounce or hence of whatever liqueur (I used brandy but cherry liqueur or Framboise would hold upward fifty-fifty better) into a pan together with house on depression heat. When it’s warm plenty you lot tin move it ignite amongst a lighter, together with spoon the flaming liquid over your baked Alaska. Just hold upward certain to plough downwards the lights!