Marijuana Cooking: Good Medicine Made Easy

Yield: Using a 9” x 13” pan, cut into 24 equal pieces (approximately 2” x 2”), each serving has 2 teaspoons of butter = high dose, or cut into 48 pieces (about 2” x 1”) = medium dose.

Instructions:

Whip the butter, chocolate, carob or cocoa, and honey together until smooth. Add eggs and vanilla, mix well.

Add the dry ingredients, stir until dampened. Add the raisins and nuts and mix thoroughly.

Pour batter into a greased 9 x 13-inch baking pan. Bake for 45 minutes or until done.

Butterscotch Blondies

Many people love blondes and this sweet treat is one that everyone is sure to love. Either cut them large for a little extra kick or cut them small for a more medium dose.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup marijuana butter

• 4 cups brown sugar

• 4 eggs

• 1 teaspoon vanilla

• 2 cups unbleached white flour

• 1 teaspoon baking powder

• 2 teaspoons sea salt

• 2 cups chopped mixed nuts (unsalted)

Preparation Time: 30 minutes

Cooking Time: Preheat the oven to 350°F/177°C. Bake for 45 minutes.

Yield: Using a 13” x 24” pan, cut into 24 equal pieces (approximately 4” x 3”), each serving has 2 teaspoons of butter = high dose, or cut into 48 pieces (about 2” x 3”) = medium dose.

Instructions:

This recipe is full of sugar—brown sugar, that is. It takes well to spelt flour or other alternatives to wheat flour. Be sure to experiment with a bit of your dough, and taste to make sure the flour alternative does not adversely affect the flavor of your recipe.

Melt the marijuana butter in a large saucepan. Add the brown sugar, and stir until gloppy. Take off the heat immediately.

Place the saucepan on a hot pad and allow the mixture to cool slightly. Add the eggs slowly, making sure that the heat of the mixture does not coagulate the egg. Add the vanilla and mix thoroughly.

Add the flour, baking powder and salt and mix well. Stir in the chopped mixed nuts.

Pour into a greased 13 x 24-inch baking pan. Bake 45 minutes or until done. Do not overbake!

Prepacked Mixes

Here’s the big secret: if you don’t have any special dietary needs and don’t have to watch calories (or don’t care to), you can use these butters in any store-bought mix that calls for butter or oil. The dosage that you get from each kind of cookie, cake or quick bread mix depends on the ratio of butter to the rest of the ingredients in the recipe. A cookie recipe with more butter in it (or butter called for on the package) is going to have a stronger dosage. A chocolate chip, sugar or butter cookie mix will probably have a stronger effect than an oatmeal or oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe mix, because of the fact that the oatmeal is an additional ingredient that disperses the butter more widely within the batch.

Follow the instructions on the mix package, and replace the butter or oil it calls for with the marijuana butter or oil. Add all the rest of the ingredients called for in the mix, and bake as directed. Remember what’s already been said about adding nuts or fruits or liquids to keep the dough or batter at the right consistency—not too runny, not too dry.

My favorite way to spice up a store-bought brownie mix is to add spiced brandy (Korbel Extra Smooth) instead of the water called for in the recipe. The alcohol evaporates in the baking process, and all that’s left is flavor! Experiment and be creative about adding different spices, fruits, nuts, seeds, and dried fruits to different mixes and enjoy the results.

You can make a delicious brownie cookie from a packaged brownie mix as well. Add more flour (about a cup, to make the brownie batter into a stiffer cookie dough) and include ¼ cup Kahlua, brandy or any liqueur with water called for in the recipe, eggs as called for, and 1 teaspoon of cinnamon. Mix into a stiff dough, drop by heaping teaspoonful onto a cookie sheet and bake 10 minutes at 350°.

Here is how I prepare a mix:

Pour the mix into the bowl.

Add the marijuana butter and other ingredients as directed on the package.

Mix and bake as directed on the package. Enjoy!

Marijuana Leaf Sugar Cookies

These tasty treats can be made in a snap. Add your own extra touches to spice them up.

One thing the prepackaged mixes allow for is more time to be creative! These extra touches can be especially important for patients who don’t have much appetite or may be very emotionally reliant on their medicine. Showing a little creativity, expending extra time and effort, or just placing a little love and healing intentionally into your work certainly can’t hurt the healing or pain management process.

Here’s how I make the Marijuana Leaf Sugar Cookies from a prepackaged sugar cookie mix. You can get a cannabis cookie cutter by calling (541) 338-9720 or on the Internet at www.houseofwah.com.