Baked Hawaii

A multi-awarded chef from Saskatoon traveled to Hawaii and loved the place. When he returned home, he created a dessert reminding him of that sunnny, surf- laden tropical isle. Baked Hawaii he called it. His creation was an off-shoot of an intriguing dessert served on the island. He liked it so much but was not able to get recipe.He created his own back home. He is so kind to share it to moi.

When entertaining and you want to depart from the usual Cheesecake dessert,Baked Hawaii can earn you raves from your guests. More, if they realize that one component is ice cream baked in an oven. What? Baked Ice cream?Yup.

Baked Hawaii is a big scoop of ice cream(cocconut is best)nestled on a molded pineapple upside down cake( any recipe of the cake will do) and kept frozen in the fridge until the ice cream hardens. When ready to be served, take the ice cream out of the freezer and drizzle the set -up with liquer of either Grand Marnier or Kahlua.Let it sit to soak up the liquer while you quickly make a merengue. When the merengue reaches its desired stage, wrap it on the ice cream/ cake by either using a rubber spatula or an icing bag. When done, shove the ice cream into a 250 degree oven until a brown caramelized color appears on the merenge. Take out of the heat put on a platter garnish with sliced pineapples. If you want to go all the way, prepare some liquer, brown sugar reduction and "paint" it on the serving platter before serving.

Eat until you can hear the sound of ukeleles.

Comments

[ces]

this looks so good but a bit tedious for me...have to master my meringue first! hehe...did you make this yourself yet?

[angelo]

i made the merengue in the picture. my first actually.

[Connie]

There's a Baked Alaska dessert that I used to love. A block of ice cream is wrapped in stiffyly beaten eggwhites. brandied syrup is over over it and set on flame. Sounds kinda related to Baked Hawai'i.

[Angela]

The Baked Hawai'i originates from a fine dining restaurant called CASA DI AMICI located at 2301 Nalo Rd in Poipu, Kauai. Chef Randall Yates' signature dessert of over 20 years is a chocolate-macadamia nut brownie topped with coconut and passion-fruit sorbet and flambéed Italian meringue. This delicious delight is served in hot blue flames created from drizzled brandy. It's baked before your eyes!

[angelo]

wow. delicious,angela. lucky you to have experienced that one-of-a-kind baked hawaii.