History of Baked Alaska in Timeline

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Baked Alaska

Baked Alaska, a dessert with various names globally, features a base of ice cream in a pie dish, layered with sponge cake or Christmas pudding, and crowned with meringue. After freezing, the meringue is browned quickly in a very hot oven, caramelizing it without melting the ice cream. Alternatively, torching the meringue, sometimes flambéed for presentation, achieves the browning.

1969: Invention of the Reverse Baked Alaska

In 1969, shortly after the invention of the microwave oven, Hungarian gastrophysicist Nicholas Kurti used the new technology to create a "Frozen Florida," a dessert with a frozen meringue shell and a hot liquor filling, essentially a reverse Baked Alaska.

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