"No Bake" Baked Alaska

RECIPES | NOVEMBER 2017

"No Bake" Baked Alaska

RECIPE CONTRIBUTOR | HOMEIRAStyle

Here is another of my Sophisticated Sweet Treat Tricks that requires no baking skills! Cake and ice cream topped with meringue and NO OVEN, how could you go wrong? Your guests will think you have mad pastry skills or a pastry chef on retainer! I promise this will be a smashing hit with your whole family as it has always been with mine.

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Sweet Endings, Dessert, Cake, Ice Cream, Meringue
About 8 – 12

INGREDIENTS

1 Chocolate Cake 10”-11” – Store Bought
8C Cappuccino Ice Cream
2C Vanilla Ice Cream
10 Egg Whites
¼t Salt
½t Vanilla
1¼C Sugar Powder

KITCHEN ESSENTIALS

11” Long Blade Knife
Blender
Stand Mixer
Piping bag
Kitchen Torch

DIRECTIONS

Cut Cake horizontally about 1¾” thick, place it on your freezer safe serving dish
Spread cappuccino ice cream over the cake evenly, transfer to freezer for 2 hours
Break remaining of the cake into pieces, or up to 3 cups depending upon the height of your cake
Add cake pieces and vanilla ice cream in blender and coarsely blend.
Do not over blend
Transfer the cake and cappuccino mixture from freezer to your counter
Top with cake and vanilla ice cream mixture, return to freezer for 5 hours
Place egg whites, salt and vanilla into the bowl of stand mixer
Whisk eggs on high speed until they reach stiff peaks
Place some of the meringue in piping bag
Remove cake and ice cream mixture from the freezer
Cover cake and ice cream mixture with a layer of meringue all around
Pipe the remainder of the meringue and decorate to your creation
Use kitchen torch to brown the meringue and serve immediately

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