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Marijuana Cooking: Good Medicine Made Easy

In a separate bowl, whisk or sift together:

• 2½ cups flour

• 1 teaspoon baking soda

• ¼ teaspoon salt

• Optional spices you may add, according to personal taste: 1 teaspoon cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, ground cloves or cardamom, lemon or lime zest, or other favorites

Stir flour mixture and spices into butter mixture.

Optional additions, which may be stirred in as desired to make a thicker, chewier cookie (note: reduce the amount of flour by ½ cup when adding a cup of any of the following):

• up to 1 cup finely chopped walnuts, pecans or other nuts/seeds

• 1 cup oatmeal

• 1 cup toasted sesame seeds

• 1 cup chocolate chips (white or dark)

• 1 cup raisins or chopped dried fruit

The options you choose will alter the density of the batter. Roll into balls and flatten, or drop by the spoonful onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Try to be consistent with the size of each cookie. With practice, this will become automatic. This is the step that gives the patient the premeasured dose.

You may want to bake one cookie at this point to see if it bakes to the thickness you desire. If it’s too thin, add more flour or other optional ingredients. If too thick, add 1–2 tablespoons of liquid—lemon or lime juice are nice additions.

Bake 9–13 minutes until cookies are browned around the edges.

To test the potency of the butter and recipe, eat ½ of a cookie and wait a couple of hours. Note the results. As mentioned earlier in the discussion of working out the correct proportions of herb to butter, this might be the time to start a journal and record the results, if you are new to this process. Be sure also to note the number of cookies you got from 1 cup of butter.

All of these cookies freeze well. Store them in sealed baggies or containers.

Bliss’s favorite

Lime/ Sesame Cookies

Using the previous basic cookie recipe, reduce flour to 2 cups and add 1 cup of toasted sesame seeds and the zest of two limes. If the batter is real stiff, add up to 3 tablespoons of lime juice. This makes a light and delicious cookie.

Lemon Lace Cookies

Silky smooth treats to sooth away your blues and bring you back to a brighter place.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup finely ground almonds*

• 1 cup sugar

• ¾ cup rolled oats

• ½ teaspoon salt

• ½ cup softened marijuana butter*

• 2 tablespoons vanilla

• 2 tablespoons lemon juice

• 1 tablespoon lemon zest

• 1 tablespoon water

*Substitutions:

• Ground pecans, walnuts or macadamia nuts can be substituted for the almonds.

• Marijuana coconut oil can be used instead of the marijuana butter. (No other oils work, however.)

• Up to 1 tablespoon of ground ginger can be added to make an extra-spicy cookie.

Preparation time: 30 minutes

Cooking time: Preheat oven 350°F/177°C. Bake 6 at a time, 6–8 minutes per batch.

Yield: 4 dozen = ½ teaspoon butter per cookie = mild dose

Instructions:

Mix dry ingredients together: ground almonds, sugar, rolled oats, flour, salt and ginger, if used. Cream in the butter, using the back of a large spoon. Add the vanilla, lemon juice and lemon zest. If the dough is excessively dry, add up to 1 tablespoon water.

Use nonstick cookie sheets or line cookie sheets with parchment paper. Moisten hands and roll dough into small balls. If you use too much dough, they will spread out and merge into one big cookie! Flatten with the palm of your hand. These cookies may bake with a lump in the middle if left in a ball. Bake for 6–8 minutes, checking frequently, and remove from the oven when the edges begin to brown and the center is bubbling.

Allow to cool before removing from the parchment paper. These delicate cookies can be made more potent by dipping half of each cookie into melted Quick Cannabis Chocolate (on page 25). After dipping, hold the cookie over the pan to catch any dripping chocolate and then place on a cooling rack or a clean sheet of parchment paper to set.

These cookies come out very thin and crispy, like candied lace. They don’t travel well but are a very popular cookie, especially with patients who have experienced a loss of appetite but still have a sweet tooth.