Just because our raspberry and chocolate bombe Alaska is a spectacle doesn't mean it's all looks.
Jan 10, 2017 6:04amBy Lisa Featherby
- 40 mins preparation
- 35 mins cooking plus chilling, freezing
- Serves 8
A bombe is a spectacular centrepiece, and can mostly be made ahead. For extra theatre, consider (carefully) flambéeing it with some warmed kirsch at the table instead of blowtorching it. Start this recipe at least two days ahead to set the bombe.
Ingredients
- 220 gm caster sugar
- 4 eggwhites
- Pinch of cream of tartar
Raspberry sorbet
- 1 kg raspberries
- 220 gm caster sugar
Chocolate ice-cream
- 200 gm dark chocolate (66% cocoa solids), coarsely chopped
- 500 ml milk (2 cups)
- 125 ml pouring cream (½ cup)
- 5 egg yolks
- 55 gm caster sugar (¼ cup)
Butter cake
- 90 gm unsalted butter, coarsely chopped and softened
- 90 gm caster sugar
- 2 eggs, at room temperature
- 90 gm self-raising flour, triple sieved
Method
Main
1
For raspberry sorbet, place a 2-litre pudding mould in the freezer to chill (about 30 minutes). Purée raspberries in a blender. Stir sugar and 250ml water in a saucepan over medium-high heat until sugar dissolves (3-5 minutes), then add a third of the raspberry purée. Stir to combine (1-2 minutes), then add to remaining raspberry purée and pass through a sieve to remove some of the seeds. Process in an ice-cream machine, then press sorbet into chilled mould to line base and sides, and return to the freezer until starting to firm (1-2 hours; you may need to press sorbet more evenly into mould once it has firmed up).
2
For chocolate ice-cream, place 160gm chocolate in a large bowl and set aside. Bring milk and half the cream to just below boiling point in a saucepan over medium heat. Meanwhile, whisk yolks and sugar in a bowl until pale (2-3 minutes). Whisking continuously, gradually add milk mixture, then transfer mixture to a clean saucepan and stir continuously over medium heat until it thickly coats the spoon (5-6 minutes). Strain through a sieve into bowl of chocolate, stir until chocolate melts, then stir in remaining cream and refrigerate to chill. Churn in an ice-cream machine, then fold in remaining chocolate, spoon into bombe mould, smooth top and freeze.
3
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4
For Italian meringue, bring sugar and 200ml water to the boil in a small saucepan, stirring continuously with a wooden spoon until sugar dissolves. Reduce heat to medium and brush down sides of pan with a clean, wet pastry brush to remove sugar crystals. Cook, without stirring, until syrup reaches 115C on a sugar thermometer (soft-ball stage; 10-15 minutes), then start whisking eggwhites with cream of tartar in the clean, grease-free bowl of an electric mixer on medium speed to soft peaks. When sugar syrup reaches 121C (hard-ball stage), increase mixer speed to high and, with motor running, gradually pour syrup into eggwhite and beat at medium speed until cool, thick and glossy (15-20 minutes).
5
To serve, working quickly, spread meringue over bombe and scorch it with a kitchen blowtorch.
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