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  Baked Alaska

Ingredients

An impressive dessert, Baked Alaska is sponge cake topped with ice-cream and covered with meringue. It is not difficult to prepare but it does need very speedy, last-minute preparation before serving.
6 SERVINGS
1 tablespoon butter
3 oz. plus 1 tablespoon flour
6 oz. plus 1 tablespoon
castor sugar
4 egg yolks, at room temperature
4 egg whites, at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 teaspoon baking powder
teaspoon salt
8 oz. apricot jam
2 pints vanilla ice-cream, softened
MERINGUE
6 egg whites
1/8 teaspoon salt
6 oz. castor sugar
Preheat the oven to moderate 350°F (Gas Mark 4, 180°C). Grease two 8-inch sandwhich tins with the butter

Method

{insert 1. Mix the 1 tablespoon of flour with the 1 tablespoon of castor sugar in a cup and dust the greased sandwich tins with the mixture. Shake out any excess flour and sugar.
2. Put the egg yolks in a medium-sized mixing bowl. Add the vanilla essence and beat with a wire whisk or rotary beater until the mixture is pale and thick. Add the sugar, reserving 4 tablespoons, and beat to mix.
3. In another mixing bowl beat the egg whites with a wire whisk or rotary beater until they form soft peaks. Add the reserved 4 tablespoons of sugar a spoonful at a time and continue beating until the whites are stiff.
4. Fold the beaten egg whites into the egg yolk mixture, with a metal spoon, until they are well mixed.
5. Sift the remaining flour with the baking powder and salt into the egg mixture and fold in with the spoon.
6. Pour the mixture evenly into the two cake tins and bake in the centre of the oven for 20 to 25 minutes or until the cakes are done. Test the cakes by inserting a skewer into the cakes, if it comes out clean the cake is cooked. Turn the cakes out carefully on to a rack to cool.
7. When the cakes have cooled spread one cake with the apricot jam. Put the second cake on top of it. Trim off the corners of the cake with a knife to make an oval shape.
8. ut the ice-cream on a sheet of aluminum foil and mould it gently to the size of the cake. Cover with foil and place in the frozen food storage compartment of the refrigerator to become hard.
9. Preheat the oven to very hot 450F (Gas Mark 8, 230°C).
10. In a medium-sized bowl, using a balloon whisk or rotary beater, whip the egg whites and salt until they are stiff. Beating continuously, add the sugar a little at a time. Continue beating until the whites are stiff and glossy. Do not overbeat or the whites will begin to collapse.
11. Put the cake on a flat baking sheet. Remove the ice-cream from the refrigerator, take off the foil and place the ice- cream on top of the cake. Using a spatula, cover the outside of the cake and the ice-cream with the meringue mixture, making sure there is no cake or ice-cream showing. This must be done very quickly and the meringue must cover the ice- cream and cake completely or the ice- cream will melt. As an added decoration, toasted almonds may be sprinkled on to the meringue.
12. Put the baking sheet in the centre of the oven and leave it for 3 to 4 minutes, until the meringue turns a pale golden colour. Serve at once. method here
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