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Baked Alaska

Baked Alaska
  • For : 6 servings
  • Time : 1 h 30
  • Difficulty :  medium

Ingredients for Baked Alaska :

  • 1 litre vanilla ice cream
  • 1/2 litre raspberry sorbet or another flavour
  • 1/4 litre syrup at 30°
  • Rum or Grand-Marnier
  • 1 sheet of sponge cake
  • Italian Meringue:
  • 3 egg whites
  • 100 g sugar
  • 25 g glucose

Technical stages for Baked Alaska :

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Prepare all the ingredients.

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2

Line a cake pan with parchment paper.

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3

Mold the vanilla ice cream on the bottom of the pan, up to a third high.

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Follow with a layer of sponge cake.

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Baste the sponge cake with the rum or Grand-marnier flavoured syrup at 30°.

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Mold the raspberry sorbet...

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...then the vanilla ice cream once again. Smooth out the surface.

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At the end, place a layer of sponge cake.

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Baste the sponge cake with the Rum or Grand-Marnier flavoured syrup at 30°.

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Fold back the parchment paper and leave to harden in the freezer.

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Prepare a tray the size of the mold, covered with aluminium foil.

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Remove the ice cream and place on the tray.

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Prepare the Italian meringue. To do so, beat the egg whites firm.

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Add cooked sugar at 121°C (sugar + glucose) and beat until completely cooled.

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Trim the surface...

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...and the sides of the cake to obtain a rectangular bar.

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Decorate the cake with meringue...

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...using a pastry bag with a fluted tip.

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Using a torch, brown the meringue evenly.

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Store in the freezer until ready to serve. Tradition recommends that the baked Alaska is flambé with alcohol right before serving.

Thank you for following this recipe !

The essentials

To make this recipe, some of these items will be required:

Flat pastry brush 2,5 cmFlat pastry brush 2,5 cm 3.30 Euro
Metal spatula - 25 cmMetal spatula - 25 cm 11.10 Euro
12 tubes box polycarbonate12 tubes box polycarbonate 39.40 Euro
Sugar Blowtorch 2Sugar Blowtorch 2 44.20 Euro
Stainless Steel whisk 35 cmStainless Steel whisk 35 cm 12.80 Euro
Oven sheet blue steel 40 x 30 cmOven sheet blue steel 40 x 30 cm 9.80 Euro