Name: Baked Alaska Sandwich
Yield: Serves 12
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3 pt [1.4 L] ice cream, such as strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla; ½ cup [100 g] packed dark brown sugar; ½ cup [100 g] granulated sugar; ½ tsp baking soda; ¾ cup plus 2 Tbsp [125 g] all-purpose flour; 2 egg yolks; ½ tsp table salt; ½ cup [120 ml] boiling water; Rounded ¾ tsp baking powder; 1½ tsp espresso powder; 1 cup [200 g] granulated sugar; 6 egg whites, at room temperature; ¼ cup [60 ml] vegetable oil; ½ cup [120 ml] buttermilk, at room temperature; 6 Tbsp [30 g] Dutch-process cocoa powder; 1½ tsp pure vanilla extract

Preparation info

Serves
12

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Vintage Baker

By Jessie Sheehan

Published 2018

About

Visually, a Baked Alaska is spectacular. Ice cream is packed into a cake-lined bowl, inverted onto a serving platter, and covered in toasted, billowy meringue. It’s actually super easy to make and guests go bonkers for it. The Easy Baked Alaska from Good Housekeeping’s Cake Book (1958) and the Baked Alaska Sandwich from 250 Refrigerator Desserts (1951) inspired this version. I added an additional layer of cake,