Baked Alaska Birthday Cake

Week 28, recipe 24 ~ Baked Alaska Birthday Cake found on page 90

The last cake of this baking challenge is also my very first Baked Alaska! (For my 30th birthday!)  The Baked Alaska is an impressive cake, and really rather easy- keep that in mind if your husband's boss ever comes to dinner (Does that even happen anymore these days?)!  After watching some YouTubes on the subject, I decided to bake the cake, fill (with raspberry jam from Egypt) and freeze it ahead.  Leaving the topping/assembling with the fresh Raspberries, Vanilla Ice Cream & Meringue for last minute...worked pretty well!
 As it was I ended up being a jack-in-the-box! (playing the game & getting the cake in the oven!) 

Notes: 
~(mostly) Step by step photos can be found HERE.
~The Ice Cream I chose was Breyers natural vanilla (the shortest ingredient list!) 
~Changes: I used salted butter, my 3" deep 8" springform pan- I'm glad that I did!
~After being SO careful with the cake baking, the freezer dried my cake out, and I only made it the day before...I don't think that I would freeze it next time.
~I took the cake out about an hour before,but it was still at least partly frozen when I served it.  (not so good I think)
~ The frozen cake may have helped the ice cream not melt!
~I put together a little YouTube playlist of Baked Alaska tutorials for you (& me!). You can find it HERE. 
~The lovely yellow color is due to the fact I used golden free-range eggs (from: www.facebook.com/GuadalupeRanch). I also used the DeLaGarza's egg whites in the Meringue.  I sure do like eating eggs that I know are good healthy eggs, from good healthy chickens, and a good healthy family! =)
~I think that the filling/cake/ice cream choices are limitless. 
~Oh! If you make an Italian Meringue instead of the one in this book, you would use a sugar syrup instead of just adding sugar.  Pro: no crunchy sugar granules   Con: more work 
~I'll bet that it would be easier to make a Baked Alaska style cake with a sheet cake or 9x13 pan...I may have to try that...  

I'd like to think that this baby got a Baked Alaska for his birthday!
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