Baked Alaska
baked alaska
AmericanOtherEasy30 min
Ingredients
Servings
4
- 6 eggs whites
- 2 quart brick of ice cream
- 6 tablespoons powdered sugar
- Thin sheet sponge cake
Instructions
- 1
Make meringue of eggs and sugar as in Meringue I
- 2
Cover a board with white paper, lay on sponge cake
- 3
Turn ice cream on cake (which should extend one-half inch beyond cream)
- 4
Cover with meringue and spread smoothly
- 5
Place on oven grate and brown quickly in hot oven
- 6
The board, paper, cake, and meringue are poor conductors of heat, and prevent the cream from melting
- 7
Slip from paper on ice cream platter
Tags
american
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