 Baked Alaska at Delmonico's in New York City's Lower Manhattan | |
| Alternative names | glace au four, omelette norvégienne (Norwegian omelette), omelette surprise, debil sibérienne (Siberian omelette) |
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| Course | Dessert |
| Main ingredients | strawberry cake, sponge cake or Christmas pudding, and meringue |
| Variations | Bombe Alaska, flame on the iceberg |
Baked Alaska, also known as Bombe Alaska, omelette norvégienne, omelette surprise, or omelette sibérienne depending on the country, is a dessert consisting of ice cream and cake topped with browned meringue. The dish is made of ice cream placed in a pie dish, lined with slices of sponge cake or Christmas pudding, and topped with meringue. After having been placed in the freezer, the entire dessert is then placed in an extremely hot oven for a brief time, long enough to firm and caramelize the meringue but not long enough to begin melting the ice cream.[1] Another common method of browning the meringue is to torch the dessert, sometimes even lighting it on fire for presentational purposes.