Cakes & Pastries

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

For this recipe, you need :

  • 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 :

  • Line a cake pan with parchment paper.
  • Mold the vanilla ice cream on the bottom of the pan, up to a third high.
  • Follow with a layer of sponge cake.
  • Baste the sponge cake with the rum or Grand-marnier flavoured syrup at 30°.
  • Mold the raspberry sorbet then the vanilla ice cream once again. Smooth out the surface.
  • Finally, place a layer of sponge cake.
  • Baste the sponge cake with the Rum or Grand-Marnier flavoured syrup at 30°.
  • Fold back the parchment paper and leave to harden in the freezer.
  • Prepare a tray the size of the mold, covered with aluminium foil.
  • Remove the ice cream and place on the tray.
  • Prepare the Italian meringue. To do so, beat the egg whites firm.
  • Add cooked sugar at 121°C (sugar + glucose) and beat until completely cooled.
  • Trim the surface and the sides of the cake to obtain a rectangular bar.
  • Decorate the cake with meringue using a pastry bag with a fluted tip.
  • Using a torch, brown the meringue evenly.
  • Store in the freezer until ready to serve. Tradition recommends that the baked Alaska is flambé with alcohol right before serving.
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The essentials

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