Flowerpots (Baked Alaska) Helen Corbitt - Texas Highways Mag
Recipe
- Title:
- Flowerpots (Baked Alaska) Helen Corbitt - Texas Highways Mag
- Categories:
- Desserts
- Yield:
- 8 servings
Ingredients
- 1 ea Small Yellow Cake layer
- 1 ea Meringue
- 1 pt Ice Cream or Sherbet
- 3 ea Egg Whites
- 8 ea Clay Flower Pots
- 6 tb Sugar
- 8 ea Large Soda Straws
- 1/2 ts Vanilla
Directions
- +-MERINGUE NOTE: Flower pots should be 2 1/2 in.
- high by 3 in.
- Diameter.
- Sterilize flower pots by boiling.
- Dry pots.
- Place a piece of plain yellow cake in the bottom of each pot to cover the hole in the bottom.
- Add ice cream or sherbet to pots until three-quarters full.
- In the middle of each pot, force a large ice cream soda straw and cut off even with top of the pot.
- Pile meringue around the inside of the pot, leaving s over the soda straw open.
- Bake at 400 degrees until the meringue turn brown, (about 5 minutes).
- Insert fresh flowers in the soda straw.
- For a holiday look, use holly and red roses or carnations.
- For the Meringue: Beat the egg whites until foamy before slowly adding the sugar, beat well after each addition.
- Beat until shiny and stiff, but not dry.
- Fold in vanilla.
- Each flowerpot requires about a third of a cup of meringue Each serving, (vanilla ice cream was used for analysis) contains 262 calories, 5 grams protein, 9 grams fat, 42 grams carbohydrate, 158 mg sodium and 38 mg cholesterol.
- This recipe used to be prepared at the Hotel Driskill in Austin, Tx, b Ms.
- Corbitt.
- According to Texas Highways Magazine, Dec 90, it is now served by the hotel only at Banquets.
- Ms.
- Corbitt passed away in 1978 but her cookbook, Helen Corbitt's Cookbook is still enjoyed.
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