Baked Alaska

The baked Alaska, also known as omelette à la norvégienne, is a frozen dessert with cake drenched in liqueur and sugar syrup and a layer of browned meringue. The meringue is baked in the oven just before serving, which gives the meringue its colour without the heat reaching the ice cream inside. The dish was invented by American physicist Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, based on the principle that beaten egg whites do not conduct heat.