Good Humored Baked Alaskas with Chocolate Sauce

Name: Good Humored Baked Alaskas with Chocolate Sauce
Yield: 6 portions
Ingredients: 4 egg whites, at room temperature; Pinch of salt; ¼ cup chopped Candied Orange Zest; ½ pint orange sherbet; 1 Orange-Scented Sponge Cake; 1 quart Vanilla Vanilla Ice Cream; Chocolate Orange Sauce, warm; ⅔ cup superfine sugar (see Note); ¼ teaspoon cream of tartar

Preparation info

6
portions

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The New Basics Cookbook

By Sheila Lukins and Julee Rosso

Published 1989

About

Creamy vanilla ice cream filled with orange sherbet atop sponge cake, under a mountain of meringue. We love that contrast of sweet cream with tart orange, hot and cold, and cloud-like meringue with dark chocolate.

Ingredients

1 Orange-Scented Sponge Cake
1 quart Vanilla Vanilla Ice Cream
¼

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Cut the cooled sponge cake in half horizontally. Cut out three 3½-inch rounds from each half, and place them on a heavy baking sheet.
Using a large (4-ounce) ice cream scoop, scoop out six rounds of vanilla ice cream. Using a small scoop or a melon baller, create a deep hollow in the center of the rounds, and sprinkle about 2</