Look! Baked Alaska on a Stick

We've had cake pops. We've had iPad cookie pops, pie pops, and even cheese and bacon pops.

The latest thing to cross our food-on-a-stick radar, though, has been these mini baked Alaska pops. How completely, utterly yummy and adorable.

Lots of work, though — have you ever made baked Alaska?

Baked Alaska is an old-school, dramatic dessert made up of a layer cake covered with ice cream, smothered in meringue, and quickly baked so as to crisp and brown the meringue. (But not melt the ice cream! Timing is key, obviously.).

We saw these mini versions of baked Alaska (via not martha) and thought they looked adorable and delicious. Tricky, though, to put together — how exactly does the ice cream and cake stay on the stick?

One idea: we thought that perhaps a thin layer cake was frozen with another layer of ice cream on top, then cut into cubes and skewered. Then the whole thing could be swirled in soft meringue and toasted with a kitchen blowtorch. You would probably have to make them to order (hard to re-freeze?) but what a fun project!

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Comments (5)

Aren't these fantastic? I'm a sucker (hee hee) for all things on a stick. The fabulous not martha found and linked to these on my site (edible crafts), but I have to credit one of my readers (Cupcakes and Cutlery) for sending me the link to the source...

in high school, my friends and i used to make smores on a stick.

Baked Alaska isn't really as timing-tricky as you think. So long as you A) don't lollygag around letting the solidly frozen ice cream get soft outside of the oven and B) make sure the meringue covers the ice cream evenly and completely with no gaps or open seams where it meet the cake, it's a snap.

It's a pretty basic scientific principle: the meringue foam insulates against the blast of heat from the broiler. I made Baked Alaska for the first time when I was a kid, because the idea fascinated me. If a child can make it, it's nothing to be nervous about.

I made baked alaska on a stick last month for the daring bakers. They were a lot of fun.

http://sarahjbakes.blogspot.com/2010/08/yay-for-food-on-stick.html

I like the idea, but meringue just doesn't do it for me.