Sam's First Baked Alaska

So in the spirit of festivity, I decided to bake Sam a couple of things I know he'd probably enjoy. Starting off, we had baked Alaska! Yes, the fabulous creamy, meringuey, cakey goodness! Who could resist? Just to make it that little bit extra-special and Sam friendly, the madeira-cake lined dish was filled with Ben & Jerry's Caramel Chew Chew flavour ice cream.

Working quickly, on account of the cake diminishing quickly, both due to the rapid consumption and the melting ice cream, we managed to get through most of it, and were very satisfied.
Sam's comments:
It was absolutely delicious! The constrasting temperatures of the hot meringue and the cold ice-cream was really cool - 8/10!