Flowerpots (baked Alaska)

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 small yellow cake layer
• 1 pint ice cream or 1 pint sherbet
• 8 clay flower pots
• 8 large soda straws
• meringue
• 3 egg whites
• 6 tablespoons sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 note: flower pots should be 2 1/2 in. high by 3 in. diameter.
• 2 sterilize flower pots by boiling.
• 3 dry pots.
• 4 place a piece of plain yellow cake in the bottom of each pot to cover the hole in the bottom.
• 5 add ice cream or sherbet to pots until three-quarters full.
• 6 in the
• 7 middle
• 8 of each pot, force a large ice cream soda straw and cut off even with top of the pot.
• 9 pile meringue around the inside of the pot, leaving s over the soda straw open.
• 10 bake at 400 degrees until the meringue turn brown, (about 5 minutes).
• 11 insert fresh flowers in the soda straw.
• 12 for a holiday look, use holly and red roses or carnations.
• 13 for the meringue:
• 14 beat the egg whites until foamy before slowly adding the sugar, beat well after each addition.
• 15 beat until shiny and stiff, but not dry.
• 16 fold in vanilla.
• 17 each flowerpot requires about a third of a cup of meringue