Name: The Flaming Ice Cream Mountain of Chamechaude (Le Chamechaude Flambé)
Prep time: 50 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: For a party of 8 to 10
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: Heavy cream (1 cup); Vanilla extract (½ tsp); All-purpose flour, sifted (1 cup); Eggs (6 large); Confectioners’ sugar, sifted (1½ cups, or a bit more); Pistachio ice cream (½ gallon); Granulated sugar (1 cup); Sweet cherry liqueur (2 Tb); Egg white (1); Coffee ice cream (½ gallon); Confectioners’ sugar (3 Tb); Sweet butter, clarified (½ cup); Kirsch (2 Tb); Vanilla extract (1 tsp); Cognac (1 cup); Lemon juice (1 tsp); Glacéed angelica (6 ounces); Salt; Almond paste (½ lb.)

Preparation info

For a party of
8 to 10

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
50 min

Appears in

The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth

By Roy Andries De Groot

Published 1973

About

This is a piece of dessert nonsense on a monumental scale–but fun! The Chamechaude is the mighty mountain, almost 8,000 feet high, which dominates the Valley of La Grande Chartreuse. If you sit near the main window of the dining room of the Auberge, Chamechaude seems to tower over you–its lower slopes green with meadows, speckled with mountain flowers; its middle slopes dark with pine forests; its heights brown and grey with outcroppings of granite; its peak glistening and white with ice an