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What is Baked Alaska?
Ingredients for Baked Alaska
Cutting the Cake for Baked Alaska
Adding Strawberry Ice Cream for Baked Alaska
Adding Chocolate Ice Cream for Baked Alaska
How to Make Meringue
Removing Ice Cream Mold for Baked Alaska
Adding Meringue for Baked Alaska
Preheating the Oven for Baked Alaska
How to Bake a Baked Alaska
How to Plate Baked Alaska
How to Serve Baked Alaska
Summary: If you're looking for a unique dessert, you might want to consider Baked Alaska. Our expert teaches you all about it in this free recipe video.
Graduating from the Cordon Bleu Cooking School in Chicago, IL with a degree in Culinary Arts, Gail Hoffman has spent the last thirteen years working as a chef for "top-rated"...read more
If Ben Franklin could be persuaded to amend his own words from the afterlife, he might say that dessert is also proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. Though everybody has their own idea of what qualifies as dessert, sweet foods are an essential part of the everyday taste experience. Their relatively minor role in the nutritional pyramid belies their powerful ability to bring a sense of instant gratification, signified by an ebullient smile. Perhaps this reaction is more complex than it seems. Perhaps dessert reminds us of home, of everything that’s good, of times spent with mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, over a freshly baked pie or some chocolate chip cookies and milk.
In this free video series, our expert will show you how to make Baked Alaska. This fun and creative dessert is easy and delicious. Get step-by-step instructions for cutting the cake in the proper shape, freezing the ice cream mold and making homemade meringue. You will also get tips for spreading the meringue on the ice cream and baking your aptly named Baked Alaska. If you are looking for something different for dessert tonight, let our expert teach you how to make this tasty Baked Alaska recipe.
"Hi, I'm Gail Hoffman from Middltown Beach, Florida. On behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to make for you a baked Alaska. Baked Alaska is a dessert that is composed of ice cream, cake and a meringue outer coating that is broiled under the oven. It is a concept that is originated back to Chinese actually the concept of wrapping ice cream and baking it. They use pastry instead of the meringue and the early 1800's a physics by the name of Thompson discovered that egg whites actually insulated the ice cream batter. From then on, it became popular to use the meringue coating instead of the pastry. The named baked Alaska was introduced at a restaurant called Domenico's in NY and in the late 1800's and it was in honored of the recently acquired territory known as Alaska that the US had purchased from Russia. Of course, Alaska didn't become the state until 1959 but that is where the name originates and it's caught on and called baked Alaska ever since."
eHow Article: What is Baked Alaska?
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