Chocolate, Tea, and Weed Cupcakes Will Satisfy Your Morning Munchies
There’s matcha pleasure to be had in these oil-infused chocolate treats
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Recipe Summary
Chef Karin Lazarus, author of Sweet Mary Jane and mastermind behind Denver's most beloved cannabis bakery, combines dark chocolate, matcha, and sweet adzuki for a mean, green, weed cupcake. Adzuki beans are a small red bean used in East Asian cuisine. When boiled with sugar or honey, they form a smooth red paste called anko that can be used in a variety of confections, like these cannabis cupcakes. The devilishly rich chocolate cupcakes are topped with a matcha green tea frosting that gets its vibrant, verdant color from the finely milled powder. It tastes both rich and earthy, with a lingering sweetness.
Lazarus also shares her recipe for cannabis-infused coconut oil, which she calls Coconut Bliss, to any replace coconut oil in any given recipe. The oil can also be consumed on its own and many patients medicate by taking a spoonful every day (the size of the spoon determines the dosage). The amount of bud used determines the level of THC in finished desserts. Lazarus provides three levels of dosing.
Excerpted from Sweet Mary Jane: 75 Delicious Cannabis-Infused High-End Desserts by Karin Lazarus by permission of Penguin Random House.
Ingredients
Directions
Level 1 (Yield: About 150 mg THC total)
1 tablespoon = about 18.75 mg THC; For 12 edibles, use about 12.5 mg THC each; For 18 edibles, use about 8.3 mg THC each.
Level 2 (Yield: About 300 mg THC total)
1 tablespoon = about 37.5 mg THC; For 12 edibles, use about 25 mg THC each; For 18 edibles, use about 16.6 mg THC each.
Level 3 (Yield: About 600 mg THC total)
1 tablespoon = about 75 mg THC; For 12 edibles, use about 50 mg THC each; For 18 edibles, use about 33.3 mg THC each.