Baked Alaska

Baked Alaska, though perhaps considered a bit old-fashioned today, is nevertheless a dessert classic. The dish combines cold frozen ice cream wrapped in a thin sheet of soft sponge cake topped with caramelized billowy sweet meringue, to produce an intriguing and pleasing result. The assembled creation was originally placed in a hot oven not so much to “bake” the dessert as the title implies, but to brown the meringue. Today, the meringue is typically browned using a salamander or blowtorch