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One dessert with ice-cream in the middle named after a North American state would be Baked Alaska. Baked Alaska is a dessert with a sponge cake base topped with ice-cream and meringue that is quickly baked in the oven to brown the meringue.
It is a dessert with a base of sponge cake topped with ice ream which is coated with meringue. If made correctly the meringue should be well baked but the ice cream should still be solid. There is a link for the recipe and pictures below.
If baked Alaska is left in the oven too long, the meringue will burn and the ice cream center will melt. If it is not left in long enough, the meringue will be raw.
I have heard a woman referred to as a Baked Alaska. Hot on the outside, cold on the inside. A baked Alaska is ice cream covered with meringue, then put under a broiler til the meringue is set and the points are browned, but the ice cream is not melted.
Baked Alaska is a dessert generally considered to be American in origin, though of course prior to the discovery of Alaska it was called something else. There seems to be some dispute as to the originator, since other cuisines were already using the individual components of baked Alaska (for example, meringue was a part of French cuisine).
Baked Alaska
My daughter did so successfully. I hope so because mine is in the freezer, complete with the egg white meringue for tonight's party!
Some stages of Radulomyces molaris can look like baked meringue when dried out.
Baked Alaska is a dessert that is named after a north American state. Baked Alaska is ice cream, with cake that is surrounded by meringue.
Baked Alaska (also known as glace au four, omelette à la norvégienne, Norwegian omelette and omelette surprise) is a dessert made of ice cream placed in a pie dish lined with slices of sponge cake or Christmas pudding and topped with meringue.
Meringue is a type of dessert which is made from egg whites and sugar, which is baked in a low oven.
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