Choc Mint Flake Alaskan Slice

Name: Choc Mint Flake Alaskan Slice
Yield: Serves 10
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 110 g (4 oz) unsalted butter, softened; 50 g (1¾ oz) icing (confectioners’) sugar, sifted; 2 gold-strength gelatine leaves (4 g/¼ oz), soaked and drained; 750 ml (25½ fl oz/3 cups) thickened (whipping) cream, Firmly whipped; 12 egg yolks; 250 g (9 oz) caster (superfine) sugar; 15 g (½ oz) cornflour (cornstarch), sifted; 15 g (½ oz) Dutch (unsweetened) cocoa powder, sifted; 65 g (2¼ oz) cake Flour, sifted; 15 g (½ oz) rice Flour, sifted; dark chocolate shavings; 2 drops edible peppermint oil, or to taste; 4 egg whites; 200 g (7 oz) caster (superfine) sugar

Preparation info

Serves
10

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Lamingtons & Lemon Tart

By Darren Purchese

Published 2016

About

Components

Cocoa shortbread
Frozen mint parfait
Italian meringue

This recipe is based on two classic Frozen desserts – the commercially available ‘Viennetta’ (which I was delighted to Find was as popular here in Australia as it was back in the UK when I was growing up) and bombe Alaska.

These were seen as proper posh desserts when served at dinner parties back in the day – hilarious! I do rem

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