Natural bitter almond extract is very powerful without bitterness unlike the fruit), fruity, with a much broader and richer aromatic palette than artificial flavouring. Its fragrance reveals lightly smoked notes of barley sugar and cherry.
For cooking it is primarily used in desserts and frangipanes. Rice pudding with apricots and bitter almonds, apricots with eau de vie, Chinese custard tart with bitter almonds, vanilla and orange ice cream, chocolate and bitter almond dessert, etc
