I decided to make the baked alaska with a twist in terms of presentation. I put the cake batter into cake cones and baked them (I could have used to put more batter in each). Then they each got little caps of home made spiced ice cream, a swirl of swiss merangue, and popped back into the oven for toasting. At the end I would have had the effect I was going for (that they looked like ice cream and then you got the surprise when you bit in) had I not jolted the tray when pulling them out of the oven. I only made 6 and 3 hit the floor, one's ice cream started to ooze out, and one got a little lop-sided so I wound up with one almost perfect one. In the end the elements tasted really good but execution didn't work so great. It was really hard to get a bite of each element and the cake was still a bit frozen-ish. But it was a lot of fun and absolutely a learning experience!