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Here, absinthe is paired with orgeat, an almond-flavored syrup. Absinthe: The French Album was Almond's sequel to the Jacques album, his tribute to the music of Jacques Brel. Discover releases, reviews, credits, songs, and more about Marc Almond - Absinthe - The French Album at Discogs. The Absinthe Suissesse is a sweet and creamy cocktail that combines a hefty dose of absinthe with almond syrup, cream, and a touch of floral orange blossom water.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook absinthe, almond & cherry cupcakes with port wine & black currant buttercream using 28 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Absinthe, almond & cherry cupcakes with port wine & black currant buttercream:

1. Take cupcake ingredients
2. Get 1 cup butter
3. Get 1 cup sugar
4. Prepare 2 eggs
5. Make ready 1/4 tsp almond extract
6. Make ready 2 drops elec green food coloring
7. Get 2/3 cup absinthe
8. Get 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
9. Get 1 1/2 cup ap flour
10. Make ready 2 tsp baking powder
11. Get 1/4 tsp salt
12. Take 1/2 cup loosely packed almond meal
13. Take 3/4 cup black currants
14. Make ready 2/3 cup drained & chopped morello cherries
15. Prepare 1/2 tsp poppy seeds
16. Make ready black currant preserves
17. Make ready 3 cup black currants
18. Make ready 1 cup grape juice
19. Take 1 cup sugar
20. Prepare 2 tbsp premium fruit pectin, such as sure-jell
21. Make ready buttercream
22. Prepare 1 1/4 cup sugar
23. Get 5 egg whites
24. Prepare 1/2 vanilla bean, seeded
25. Take 1 dash salt
26. Prepare 1 lb butter, at room temp
27. Make ready 2 tbsp vanilla extract
28. Get 1/2 cup port wine

The Absinthe Suissesse, like the Absinthe Frappe, is a famous New Orleans brunch cocktail. An egg white gives this cocktail more body and thick. Absinthe (/ ˈ æ b s ɪ n θ,-s æ̃ θ /, French: ()) is an anise-flavoured spirit derived from several plants, including the flowers and leaves of Artemisia absinthium ("grand wormwood"), together with green anise, sweet fennel, and other medicinal and culinary herbs. Absinthe has gained a romantic, nearly mythological reputation over the years.

Steps to make Absinthe, almond & cherry cupcakes with port wine & black currant buttercream:

1. recipe courtesy of the cake mamas, cupcake wars 2011
2. preheat oven to 325°F. Grease or put 24 liners in cupcake pans.
3. Cream the butter & sugar for 2 minutes with an electric mixer. Scrape the sides & add eggs 1 at a time. Add the almond extract & food coloring.
4. In a separate bowl, combine absinthe & heavy whipping cream. In another bowl, sift the flour, baking powder & salt.
5. turn mixer on to the lowest setting, then add the almond meal, flour mixture & absinthe mixture - alternating the ingredients, starting w/ dry & ending with dry. Scrape sides of bowl to make sure all ibgredients are fully combined. Add the currants, cherries & poppy seeds & fold by hand into the batter.
6. fill cupcake liners with 2 and 1/2 ounces of batter. Bake for 21 minutes. After cooling frost with port wine & black currant buttercream. (directions follow)
7. Preserves: Combine & dissolve all preserve ingredients in a saucepan. Cook on med to med high heat, stirring constantly. When mixture comes to a boil, continue cooking for 2 minutes. Cool in refrigerator.
8. Buttercream: Dissolve sugar, egg whites, salt & vanilla bean seeds over a double boiler. Lightly whisk until the egg white mixture is hot to the touch. pour the hot whites into a room temp mixing bowl & whip with a whisk attachment on high until stiff peaks form & mixture has doubled in volume.
9. Cut butter into 2-inch pieces. Change to a paddle attatchment & slowly add a few pieces of butter at a time. Continue beating until mixture begins to look light & fluffy. Stop & scrape the bowl. Reduce speed to low & add the vanilla extract & cont. to beat on low for 45sec.
10. Once thoroughly combined, slowly add the port wine & 1/2 cup black currant preserves, then beat on med to high speed until all ingredients are fully combined, an additional 45-60 seconds.

Absinthe (/ ˈ æ b s ɪ n θ,-s æ̃ θ /, French: ()) is an anise-flavoured spirit derived from several plants, including the flowers and leaves of Artemisia absinthium ("grand wormwood"), together with green anise, sweet fennel, and other medicinal and culinary herbs. Absinthe has gained a romantic, nearly mythological reputation over the years. La Fée Verte—the Green Fairy as it is sometimes known—is entwined with stories of writers, artists and bohemians, especially those of the belle epoque and Roaring Twenties. Because of its incredibly high alcohol content, absinthe shouldn't be taken as a shooter alone. The most common way to drink absinthe is to place a sugar cube on a slotted spoon over a shot of absinthe and slowly pour cold water over the sugar until it dissolves.

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