Very naughty baked Alaska
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Ingredients
For the chocolate sauce
- 100g caster sugar
- 100g butter
- 1 vanilla pod, seeds scraped out
- 125g chocolate (70% cocoa solids), broken into pieces
- 75ml water
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder
For the baked Alaska
- 4 ready made chocolate brownies
- 50ml white chocolate liqueur
- 3 large scoops good quality chocolate ice cream
- 3 large scoops good quality vanilla ice cream
- 3 RSPCA Assured labelled egg whites
- 75g sugar
Method
It may sound complicated but Baked Alaska is actually very simple to make. Our recipe is very naughty indeed. But oh so delicious...
- Preheat the oven to 220C/ fan 200C
- For the chocolate sauce, place the sugar, butter and vanilla seeds into a pan over a medium heat and cook, stirring gently, until melted and combined.
- Stir in the chocolate, water and cocoa powder and heat gently for 6-8 minutes, until a glossy, thick sauce forms.
- For the baked Alaska, press the brownies into the bottom of a 20cm round ovenproof dish.
- Drizzle over the white chocolate liqueur, then add a couple of spoonfuls of the chocolate sauce.
- Top with 2-3 large scoops of each of the ice creams and place into the freezer to chill.
- Meanwhile, whisk the egg whites with 25g of the sugar until stiff peaks form when the whisk is removed.
- Add the remaining sugar and whisk again until the egg white mixture is stiff and glossy.
- Remove the dish from the freezer. Spoon the meringue mixture over the ice cream to completely cover.
- Transfer to the oven and bake for 3-4 minutes (no longer), until the meringue is just golden-brown.
- To serve, place generous spoonfuls of the baked Alaska into bowls and drizzle with more chocolate sauce.
