Easy Baked Alaska Recipe

Hello folks it is Barry here welcome to my virgin kitchen that is not going to work Boston leave the monkey toy alone today we are going to make beaked haha not beaked Alaska that would be baked Alaska using duck beaks or something like that, no. Today we are making baked Alaska I am trying to make it idiot proof baked Alaska and if you follow me on twitter you will already know I have been stood here going ugh, like an idiot trying to work out first steps but it should hopefully be pretty easy and you guys can have a go too if you would like to have a try hit pause on the video write down all of these ingredients they are also in the description box down below and on my website and remember I am self taught so if I can make this you definitely can lets get cracking.

We are going to start off by making our meringue ok so this is a stand mixer you can always just use an electric whisk the most important thing are these egg whites right here they have been stood at room temperature it is really important to have room temperature egg whites, we are also going to add in with them some cream of tartar we will tip that in too about 2 teaspoons of that it helps to stiffen the whites, we will gradually add our sugar in just a minute but lets get this one going. Alrighty you can see by the way it is clinging on there it is time to add in the sugar what we are going to do is add it in gradually ok so I am just going to do about a quarter at a time so in goes our first batch straight back down and we whip away. Amazing times it has held the shape so well it has got the shape of the whisk, cool.

Right then lets put that meringue to one side with a baked Alaska traditionally you can have a cake sponge so on a cake a flan something like that I wanted to make this so simple that I went to a supermarket and bought a cookie ok so a standard size cookie sat on my cake stand dj cookie in the house dj cookie so what we will do is the base of an ice cream ken and jennys if you use that brand ken and jennys should hopefully fit that perfectly on there we need to act fast before we make it we smother it in the meringue and complete the Alaska mission sounds like something from james bond. So hopefully this will work we will get cracking right now ok lets do this lets get the ice cream from the freezer I have already taken it out of the ken and jenny packaging.

There it is my friends, look it is like a sandcastle. Right I need to work fast at this. I am going to get my meringue on top and encase and cover it as quickly as possible ok we need to make sure that every single smudging of the ice cream including the base is covered in the meringue maybe to get off those loose edges just a little bit of kitchen towel it does that quite nicely, so if you like I do not know why I feel like doing this but I am going to make it spikey by pushing my knife against it and getting that sort of like prickly effect on it yes, prickly.

I am super happy with how that has turned out I have put it on a plate for the moment as I am going to sit it in the freezer to hold its shape, in fact if you were going to store it it is at this stage where you would store it and make ahead or if you want to bake it shove it in the oven at the hottest temperature for like ten seconds but we are going to blowtorch ours, lets freeze it first though. So this freezer step is optional it is just for me when I am filming in here and with the heat of the lights it would have melted by now right, alright mate, right. Alright guys it is blowtorch time I love that effect is that not the coolest thing in the world, so I am going to work my way around this getting some of the edges too loving it.

Amazing now again if you like you can store in the freezer until ready to eat it but I am going to eat it right now. We should just take a minute to appreciate this but it is very hot so we should crack on, oh my gosh check that out. That is pure heaven bare in mind that is a whole tub of ice cream in here so you do not probably want to eat it on your own I am not saying you cannot but lets have a taste of this. Here we go, oh my gosh. Right I have to put this in the freezer for mrs barry I really hope you give this a go folks, you always send me pictures on twitter and Instagram and I am loving it so please keep them coming in, check out my last two videos on the screen right now let me know down below anything you want to see next see you later guys give this a go you are going to love it.