Baked Alaska Florida" in 1894, apparently referring to the contrast between its cold and hot elements. The dish is also known as an "omelette à la norvégienne" or "Norwegian omelette", which similarly refers to the cold climate of Norway. The dish is made of ice cream placed in a pie dish lined with slices of sponge cake or Christmas pudding, and topped with meringue. The entire dessert is then placed in an extremely hot oven for a brief time, long enough to firm and caramelize the meringue. In 1969, the recently invented microwave oven enabled Hungarian gastrophysicist Nicholas Kurti to produce a
Dessert Games Dessert Games Each episode features four chefs competing in a three-round elimination contest, cooking desserts with ingredients found in a supermarket grocery store (GGG's Flavortown Market) as Duff or Guy poses unusual challenges to them. The winning chef can collect $10,000. A backdoor pilot for the series aired as part of GGG, season 9 episode 12, "Guy's Dessert Grocery Games", aired on 26 June 2016 under the title "Guy's Dessert Games", featuring Duff suggesting the theme of the show to Guy, and being a judge on that 2016 episode. The series first airs in 2017 on the Food Network, with