Last night I had some friends over as I was hosting Book Club (the book was the excellent Working In The Shadows) so I decided to make my Baked Alaska for them. Some of my friends weren’t sure what Baked Alaska was and turned up expecting salmon. For anyone similarly unsure, it is a layer of cake and a layer of ice cream covered in meringue. The tricky part is putting it in a 500 degree oven long enough so that the meringue cooks but not so long that the ice cream melts.
Mine was actually much more successful than I thought it would be. The meringue could’ve done with cooking a little bit longer but I had to take it out when the edges burnt and started to fill the house with smoke.
With burnt edges discarded, it was rather tasty.
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