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pandaemonaeum ([personal profile] pandaemonaeum) wrote2010-02-05 12:50 am

Absinthe Fondants

400g icing sugar, sifted
4 tablespoons Absinthe
3-4 tablespoons water

Mix the ingredients in a bowl. You're making a fondant, which is a thick icing, like royal icing. It should come together like a very stiff dough. Try to keep it as dry as possible!

Roll it out on a board dusted with icing sugar, dusting your hands and rolling pin with more icing sugar. The easiest thing to do is to roll out a long sausage shape and slice it up.

Lay the pieces on a wire rack to dry, and sift icing sugar over. If you don't have a wire rack, put them on a plate and turn them a few times to ensure they dry fully.

You can dip the shapes in melted chocolate for an even more calorific and decadent sweetie :D Please note that these are white, if you want an absinthe colour, add a little green food colouring when you are mixing the ingredients!

[identity profile] rabbit777.livejournal.com 2010-02-05 12:12 pm (UTC)(link)
*drooooooooooooooooooooooool*

[identity profile] pandaemonaeum.livejournal.com 2010-02-05 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Just like the peppermint sweeties you used to make in school, only with absinthe :D

And vegan friendly! :D

[identity profile] rabbit777.livejournal.com 2010-02-05 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I never made those at school :S

[identity profile] robo-toda.livejournal.com 2010-02-05 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds like it would work with Goldschlager as well :)

[identity profile] tribal-thrash.livejournal.com 2010-02-05 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, ace idea!!

[identity profile] pandaemonaeum.livejournal.com 2010-02-06 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
Yep, works with anything with a strong flavour and high alcohol content - old style essences were basically a distillation dissolved in alcohol, and the alcohol causes the right chemical reaction for the fondants to get dry and crisp on the outside :)