Description
Best Baked Alaska: A retro dessert with pound cake, ice cream, and toasted meringue.
Ingredients
Scale
6 3-inch rounds pound cake
3 cups vanilla ice cream
6 egg whites at room temperature
6 tablespoons sugar
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
2. Place the cake rounds on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
3. Top the cake rounds with a large scoop of ice cream. Freeze until firm.
4. Beat egg whites at high speed until stiff. Add sugar near the end.
5. Remove frozen layers and cover each with meringue, sealing edges.
6. Bake 6–8 minutes until golden.
7. Serve immediately.
Notes
Seal the meringue all the way to the parchment.
Watch closely around the 5-minute mark.
Try variations like chocolate cake with pistachio ice cream or white cake with peach.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 8 minutes
- Category: Desserts
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 522
- Sugar: 53
- Sodium: 390
- Fat: 23
- Saturated Fat: 12
- Unsaturated Fat: 8
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 68
- Fiber: 1
- Protein: 11
- Cholesterol: 98