This holiday season, experience one of the great signature dishes that made Michel Richard famous: his delightful snowman vacherin.  Not to be confused with the French Cheeses, this vacherin is a slowly-baked French meringue dessert filled with ice-cream.  Priced at $12, $2 of every snowman will benefit the St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.  The vacherin will also be part of the new holiday menu available Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

If you order a snowman vacherin at Central and post a photo to Facebook you get a free eggnog, as well.

In addition to the vacherin, Central has announced a special holiday menu, available from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.  The four course meal begins with a choice of chestnut peanut soup with duck confit; curry mussel soup or crab bisque.  The next course offers leek salad with poached egg; yellowtail Carpaccio with yuzu sauce or goat cheese Caesar salad.  The main entree course selections include prime rib with horseradish jus; seared duck breast with beet cinnamon sauce; poached halibut with morel sauce and arugula salad or lobster tail with bok choy and ginger butter sauce.  Last but not least – dessert.  Guests can select between the snowman vacherin or Bûche de Noël or butter tart.  The price will be $55 per person.

Central is located at Caesars Palace Las Vegas.