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Baked Alaska

noun
variants: or baked Alaska

Definition of Baked Alaska 

: a dessert consisting of cake topped with ice cream covered with meringue which then is quickly browned in an oven

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First Known Use of Baked Alaska

1896, in the meaning defined above

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