I wanted to make a fancy dessert for the New Years.
So - based on never having had this dessert, I decided to make a Baked Alaska.
Somewhere in my youth and childhood, I must have decided baked Alaska was fancy. And- honestly it was...and it wasn't.
The making was easy enough. I started out with a variety of ice creams - pistachio, cherry, strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate. I placed them in a bowl together and then froze it. Next, I set about baking a pound cake. This became the bottom of the Bakes Alaska, underneath the ice cream dome. After this, I whip upped a batch of vanilla meringue. I covered the entire dome with this delicious marshmallow like meringue, creating this enormous and somewhat grotesque white dome. All of us took turns torching the meringue to toast it and to create a lovely pattern of white and brown. The final result was lovely.
We then baked it in a hot oven for about 5 minutes to toast it even more.
It was brought to the table in a grand style!
We all ooohed and aaahed. Here's where the tragedy struck.
When I attempted to slice it - the outer meringue began to slide off of the ice cream dome. Slowly, like an iceberg sheds the next layer of ice!
We all screamed and jumped to save the fallen meringue.
It couldn't be saved. It had to fall.
It didn't really matter by then.
We continued to slice the ice cream dome, and shared it among all 5 of us.
We added the fallen meringue as a topping, hot chocolate sauce and some toasted almonds. It looked disastrous in the end, but we didn't care.
It tasted fabulous.
Perhaps we missed a step along the way??
I am certain in fancy restaurants the meringue doesn't just slide into the ocean.
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