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Recipe: Easy Baked Alaska

Ingredients
  

  • 1 l ice cream softened
  • 300 g cake of choice swiss roll, jammy joeys etc
  • 100 g jam
  • 5 eggs large - just the whites
  • 35 g caster sugar

Instructions
 

  • Preheat your oven to 230'C
  • Slice the cake and then layer it over the bottom of an ovenproof baking dish.
  • Spoon the jam over the top
  • Remove the ice cream and place them on top of the cake and jam
  • Firmly press down the ice cream over the sponge.
  • Leave about 2cm gap to the edge of the dish.
  • Place in the freezer for an hour.
  • Whisk the egg whites in a large bowl.
  • Add the sugar, a couple of tablespoons at a time, until it has stiff peaks
  • Quickly spoon the meringue over the cake and ice cream.
  • Bake in the oven for 5 minutes.
  • Eat!