"Guests were served a vanilla ice cream bombe with a Kentish raspberry sorbet interior and lightly poached Victorian plums. An ice cream bombe, or bombe glacée, is a French dessert, and there are a number of ways to prepare it. Some are made entirely of ice cream or sorbet, while others may have layers of cake or meringue. Baked Alaska is a kind of ice cream bombe, and it famously features a torched meringue coating."
"As you might expect of a royal banquet, it was a formal affair with a strictly fine dining menu. It's been widely reported that the menu included Hampshire watercress panna cotta with Parmesan shortbread and quail egg salad. In addition, there was an organic Norfolk chicken ballotine served with courgettes (known stateside as zucchini) and a jus infused with thyme and savory. But the standout was the dessert."
"Based on descriptions of the dish served at the banquet President Trump attended, it featured a vanilla ice cream exterior over a raspberry sherbet core, either topped with or served alongside plums. The name "bombe" is French, and it means exactly what you think. The dessert is designed to look like a cannonball, or bomb, so it's frozen in a spherical shape. The trick to making it work is just time, since the process is not as complicated as the end result makes it seem."
A state banquet menu featured Hampshire watercress panna cotta with Parmesan shortbread, quail egg salad, and an organic Norfolk chicken ballotine with courgettes and a thyme-and-savory jus. The dessert was a vanilla ice cream bombe with a Kentish raspberry sorbet interior and lightly poached Victorian plums. An ice cream bombe can be made entirely of ice cream or sorbet, or include layers of cake or meringue; Baked Alaska is a variety with torched meringue. The bombe is frozen in a spherical shape resembling a cannonball. Assembly can involve pressing a smaller bowl into softened ice cream, freezing, removing it, and filling the cavity with sherbet.
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