Baked Alaska Recipe

Sponge cake recipe, baked in small cups or bowls lined with baking paper.

Quality Icecream of your choice from the store, look for one that says the word “icecream” to find a traditional dairy based icecream. If you want to use an iced confection check how quickly it melts first.
Lemon butter/curd recipe, this adds some acididty to the dessert in contrast to all the other sweetness.

The above section can be done up to a month in advance, prepared as described in the video and stored in the freezer.
Italian Meringue, make this just before it is needed. Pipe it around the desserts.

3 options for browning:

In the oven
Preheat the oven to 230C (446 degrees Fahrenheit) and bake for around 5 minutes.
The result: A warm crispy meringue, defrosted cake and frozen ice cream.

With A blow torch
The result: A pretty looking browning on the meringue, but it is soft not crispy, and the cake is still frozen. This method is more suitable if you are assembling it all at once and not putting the cake in the freezer.

Using Alcohol
The result: A spectacular show, but the meringue often ends up burnt and tastes bad.

Patterned Roll Cake

See my previous video and recipe for patterned roll cakes.

Strawberry Fraisier Cake Recipe

Sponge cake recipe, bakes in two round cake tins.
2 punnets of strawberries, washed and hulled

Creme Mousseline
110g (3.88 ounces) egg yolk (approx 7 yolks)
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
130g (4.59 ounces) sugar
30g (1.06 ounces) corn-flour/cornstarch
500mL (16.91 fluid ounces) milk
160g (5.64 ounces) butter
In a bowl whisk together the egg yolks, vanilla, sugar and cornstarch. Heat the milk in a pan and when it just begins to boil add the egg yolk mixture and stir continuously. Bring it back up to a boil, turn down the heat and keep stirring for a minute to ensure all the cornstarch is cooked, otherwise you’ll get a floury taste. Transfer into a bowl, cool to room temperature, cover with plastic wrap and put in the fridge overnight.
The next day add the butter and whip using electric beaters until it is fluffy and lighter in colour.