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American · Dessert
Meringue-Covered Baked Alaska
Vanilla ice cream on a base of dry cake, sealed under a thick blanket of meringue and browned briefly in a very hot oven. The airy meringue and the cake insulate the ice cream, which stays frozen inside.
- YieldServes 8
- Hands-on27 min
- Total34 min
- Difficulty
Ingredients
Meringue
- 8medium egg whites, at room temperature
- 3 gcream of tartar
- 225 ggranulated sugar
Base and filling
- 8 slicesMadeira cake or other dry-textured cake, sliced 5 mm thick, enough to cover the base of the dish
- 1 Lvanilla ice cream, rock-hard from the freezer
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