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Ice cream in a 500-degree oven? As long as it's bundled up in a thick layer of meringue, the outside caramelizes, and the inside (chocolate cake with chocolate ice cream) remains brr-illiantly chilly.

Baked Alaska recipe that serves two, made in small ramekins. A great make-ahead dessert that is easier than you think. Sorbet, meringue and cake!

Julissa Roberts demonstrates how to get that classic dome shape and how to whip up a billowy meringue.

This ultimate birthday cake features three flavors of ice cream, moist chocolate cake, nutty ganache and fluffy meringue. Slideshow: Chocolate Cakes

Strawberry and Chocolate Baked Alaska Recipe

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A modern day version of an old classic. This S'mores Baked Alaska combines a fun retro dessert with your favourite campfire treat.

Baked Alaska is a layer of cake covered with ice cream and meringue and broiled. In this version, Grace Parisi skips the cake: Instead, she tops ice cream (preferably coconut) with pineapple chunks that have been sautéed with store-bought dulce de leche, then spoons a quick meringue over the fruit and broils until golden.Plus: More Dessert Recipes and Tips

Ice cream in a 500-degree oven? As long as it's bundled up in a thick layer of meringue, the outside caramelizes, and the inside (chocolate cake with chocolate ice cream) remains brr-illiantly chilly.

Moist cake is topped with three layers of ice cream and fluffy meringue in this old-fashioned dessert.

Pastry chef Waylynn Lucas of Fonuts in Los Angeles uses xanthan gum to keep the meringue in her baked Alaska stable after she mixes it with pineapple puree.

These lovely little baked Alaskas are filled with strawberry ice cream. Get the recipe at Food & Wine.

This layered ice cream cake with its regal crown of meringue always elicits oohs and aahs. Though no single part of the recipe is complex, it takes some time to assemble and needs 4 hours in the freezer. Coffee ice cream is especially good in this dessert, but pistachio, black cherry, caramel, and mint-chip are other great choices. To assemble the cake, you’ll need a 2-1/2-quart bowl, preferably about 9 inches across, as well as a clean 10-inch round of cardboard.

Pistachio almond ice cream, sandwiched between two layers of vanilla chai cake, all topped with fluffy meringue...and then baked!