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[ECBG]

I did at 26 and loved it!

The nuts and hot fudge sauce are missing!

[Sooner]

@ECBG Yes, but the most complicated thing I ever made was hand made puff pastry with some kind of pastry creme fillings in the layers.  I don't remember the specifics of the filling, but it seems like the pastry was a 2-day deal of turning and layers of butter and rolling and turning.

If you have a good freezer, baked Alaska is fun and people love it.  If you don't have a good freezer do not even think about it and don't ask me how I know that!  

[IamDoodles]

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@Sooner wrote:

@ECBG Yes, but the most complicated thing I ever made was hand made puff pastry with some kind of pastry creme fillings in the layers.  I don't remember the specifics of the filling, but it seems like the pastry was a 2-day deal of turning and layers of butter and rolling and turning.

If you have a good freezer, baked Alaska is fun and people love it.  If you don't have a good freezer do not even think about it and don't ask me how I know that!  

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I made puff pastry once and I so agree with you.  The most difficult thing ever.  It was delicious, but I would never attempt it again.  The butter kept softening and oozing out and had to be refrigerated and rolled again.  Layer after layer.  Takes several days.  I just buy Pepperidge farms puff pastry now and it's so simple.

[IamDoodles]

Oh, I never made baked Alaska.  Hate ice cream.

[AuntG]

No, but I drooled over the picture of one in a Better Crocker cookbook my great aunt had. Seems to me the book came out in the early 1950's. I still page through it and even make a few things.

[PA Mom-mom]

@ECBG  I made it in 8th grade Home Ec. as a group project. It must have been a simplified version, because I don't remember it being.too complicated. It was cake, covered with ice cream and then meringue, followed by a short time in the oven. I can't remember how we made the shape of the cake, but I remember covering it with the ice cream, etc.

[QVCkitty1]

Yes, after I had it in a restaurant in the 80's , I made it at home. It was good, but I never made it again. I remember making a brownie bottom and then lining a metal bowl with plastic wrap and filling with ice cream. After everything was frozen I unmolded the ice cream bowl on the round brownie bottom and covered with meringue. 

[ECBG]

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@PA Mom-mom wrote:

@ECBG  I made it in 8th grade Home Ec. as a group project. It must have been a simplified version, because I don't remember it being.too complicated. It was cake, covered with ice cream and then meringue, followed by a short time in the oven. I can't remember how we made the shape of the cake, but I remember covering it with the ice cream, etc.

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@PA Mom-mom 

I taught Home Economics, now Family and Consumer Science .

Most often a pie crust is pierced and baked.

The crust is packed with ice cream, covered with meringue and browned.  Then it is refrozen until served.

I then drizzle hot fudge and sprinkle with nuts.

[Sooner]

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@ECBG wrote:

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@PA Mom-mom wrote:

@ECBG  I made it in 8th grade Home Ec. as a group project. It must have been a simplified version, because I don't remember it being.too complicated. It was cake, covered with ice cream and then meringue, followed by a short time in the oven. I can't remember how we made the shape of the cake, but I remember covering it with the ice cream, etc.

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@PA Mom-mom 

I taught Home Economics, now Family and Consumer Science .

Most often a pie crust is pierced and baked.

The crust is packed with ice cream, covered with meringue and browned.  Then it is refrozen until served.

I then drizzle hot fudge and sprinkle with nuts.

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@ECBG That's new to me.  I have never seen baked Alaska with a pie crust.  Very interesting. 

[Enufstuff]

@ECBG@Sooner  

    I never made Baked Alaska, but I always got it for dessert at a favorite restaurant years ago.

            It had a pie crust shell filled with vanilla ice cream and topped with the meringue. It was served with strawberries in a sauce.