One Off the Vegan Bucket List: A Baked Alaska 💕🍨🔥

Being a lover of vintage dessert cookbooks, the Baked Alaska always appealed to me. The beautiful pastel layers, the encasement of torched meringue… the cohabitation of ice cream, cake and marshmallowy meringue. So with the new year, I’d start with checking it off my to-make Bucket List.

It was partly motivated by discovering that Breyers now had 1.5 quart containers of oat milk-based ice cream. Can you believe how vegan-friendly the world has become?

So after looking through many recipes and contemplating whether I’d buy a dome cake pan, I opted for shaping the softened ice cream in a bowl lined with plastic wrap. I made a concave cavity with the vanilla and let that freeze.

Then I mixed some frozen raspberries in strawberry ice cream and smoothed that into the vanilla cavity and froze it again.

I made a 8″ chocolate cake layer and inverted the set ice cream dome upon it…

… then wrapped it with more plastic wrap. My tip is to make sure the ice cream dome is completely straight and level so it makes full contact with the cake.

Next up, making the meringue… waiting for “soft ball” temperature

Looking peak-y

I wish I would have added a bit more color to it. It was very pale and wouldn’t offer that nice contrast with the ice cream.

Now the frozen cake/ice cream dome got its thick layer of meringue

It was so pretty and so delicious

Now a torch about the cake & it would be complete

I can’t believe how beautiful it turned out ❤️

So now, a bunch of pictures

Interior shots are a must with a Baked Alaska

Next time I will use more meringue

What is on your bucket list of vegan baking??