Baked Alaska
Baked Alaska
The secret to David Burke's baked Alaska recipe is a little Kahlúa in the ice cream. I adapted this recipe to make it a green tea flavored ice cream. you can also make this recipe with either chocolate or vanilla cake, so feel free to adapt this recipe and leave out the cocoa.
Servings
8
Ingredients
- 8 cup milk
- 8 cup heavy cream
- 4 tablespoon matcha green tea powder
- 24 ounce sugar, divided
- 20 egg yolks
- 21 ounce white chocolate, cut into chunks
- 7 tablespoon kahlúa
- 1/2 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cup egg whites
- 1 cup sugar
- pinch of cream of tartar
- 1 cup confectioner's sugar
- 5 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 2 1/2 tablespoon brown sugar
- 2 teaspoon salt
- 4 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 2 cup butter, room temperature
- 4 eggs
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 12 ounce melted chocolate
Directions
- Bring the milk, heavy cream, matcha powder and 12 ounces of sugar to a boil. Slowly add in the yolks and the rest of the sugar to the boiling liquid. Next add the white chocolate, the Kahlúa and the vanilla extract. Mix together until nappe, or thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. Let cool. Then fill the matcha mix into dome molds and freeze.
- In a mixer on medium speed, mix together the first 3 ingredients until firm. Add the confectioner's sugar and mix on high until firm and shiny.
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Combine all of the ingredients, except the chocolate, into a stand mixer and beat for 30 seconds. Add the chocolate and beat for 3 minutes on high. Pour the batter into a 9-inch greased cake pan and bake for 45 minutes.
- To assemble the Alaska:
- After cake has cooled, cut out small round pieces. Place one piece of cake inside each Alaska dome with the ice cream. Top with a dallop of meringue. Bake for 2 minutes on low heat to brown meringue. Serve!