This Baked Alaska is a fudgy brownie layer topped with creamy mint chip ice cream. Beautifully covered with browned Italian meringue. So how about it, up for a slice?
What is a Baked Alaska?
When we first heard of it it was on The Sims computer game. Did you ever play those games growing up? We did. Truth be told we would stay up the whole night just playing it. It was such a fun game and still is. We still play it from time to time. Anyway back to the explanation. It is a frozen dessert that consists of ice cream on top of a layer of sponge cake and topped with browned meringue. Traditionally you use sponge cake for a base layer but we wanted to use brownie instead. Come on who doesn’t like brownies and ice cream together?
This is a very impressive dessert and we promise you it is not hard to make at all. Ready to get started?
Here are the ingredients you will need:
- Brownie batter. You can use the brownie batter from our Chocolate Streusel Brownies. Or you can use a boxed brownie mix. Either one works.
- 48 oz of Mint Chip Ice Cream. You don’t have to use mint chip ice cream we thought it just fit better with St. Patricks day plus it’s delicious. Feel free to use any flavor of ice cream you want.
- Egg whites
- Sugar
Tools you will need are:
- One 1-quart size bowl
- Cling wrap or plastic wrap
- Kitchen torch. Looking for a kitchen torch you can find them on Amazon. Here is the link to the torch we use.
- Candy thermometer or an instant-read thermometer.