Baked Alaska

Name: Baked Alaska
Yield: Serves 6–8
Ingredients: 1 sponge or butter cake, about 350 g (12 oz., cut into 3 cm (1¼ inch) slices; 250 g (9 oz) mixed glacé fruit, finely chopped; 2 litres (8 cups) vanilla ice cream; 60 g (2¼ oz) dark chocolate, finely chopped; 60 g (2¼ oz) almonds, toasted and finely chopped; 2 teaspoons finely grated orange zest; 170 g (6 oz/¾ cup) caster (superfine) sugar; 125 ml (4 fl oz/½ cup) Grand Marnier or Cointreau; 3 egg whites

Preparation info

Serves
6–8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Cook's Book of Everything

By Lulu Grimes

Published 2009

About

Ingredients

2 litres (8 cups) vanilla ice cream
250 g (9

Dessert
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Line a 2 litre (8 cup) pudding basin with damp muslin. Allow half of the ice cream to soften just enough that you can fold in the glacé fruit along with