baked Alaska

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baked′ Alas′ka, 

1. Food a dessert consisting of ice cream on a cake base, placed briefly in a hot oven to brown its topping of meringue.

• 1905–10, American.

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baked Alaska noun

1. a dessert consisting of cake and ice cream covered with meringue and cooked very quickly in a hot oven