Since we tend to have
lots of grapefruit at our house, Tara recently looked up some interesting grapefruit recipes. She found one for grapefruit alaska. Baked Alaska is a dessert that has pound-cake on the bottom then a slab of ice cream (I've had it with Neapolitan ice cream) and then you cover the whole thing with meringue and bake it for 10 minutes. Somehow the meringue protects the ice cream so it doesn't melt. It's a very strange phenomenon.
So, with this recipe, you take the grapefruit segments out of the grapefruit halves, then scrape out the rest of what's left inside to have a clean half-of-a-grapefruit-bowl (not the funnest job... in fact, it was rather tedious, as you can tell by the look on Tara's face). You mix the pieces of grapefruit with a little sugar and then spoon it back into the grapefruit-bowl. Then scoop some vanilla ice cream on top, whip up some meringue, and pour that on top, sealing off the edges.
Then bake it in the oven at 425 until it looks like this.
Check it out! Pretty cool huh? Next time we're going to try full fat ice cream since this low fat stuff seemed a little meltier than the fatty kind. Otherwise, it seemed to work well.
Yum!
So, with this recipe, you take the grapefruit segments out of the grapefruit halves, then scrape out the rest of what's left inside to have a clean half-of-a-grapefruit-bowl (not the funnest job... in fact, it was rather tedious, as you can tell by the look on Tara's face). You mix the pieces of grapefruit with a little sugar and then spoon it back into the grapefruit-bowl. Then scoop some vanilla ice cream on top, whip up some meringue, and pour that on top, sealing off the edges.
Then bake it in the oven at 425 until it looks like this.
Check it out! Pretty cool huh? Next time we're going to try full fat ice cream since this low fat stuff seemed a little meltier than the fatty kind. Otherwise, it seemed to work well.
Yum!
Wow...lovely pictures Steph. :)
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