It’s coming up to Easter which for many is a time for chocolate, cakes, roast dinners and all sorts of other delicious treats. I’m sure people consider it a time for other stuff as well but I’m really just into the food aspect. We’ve covered a lot of delicious and delectable edibles in the Cooking with Cannabis series so we are going to take a few of those skills we’ve learned to make some truly amazing Easter treats. As always I’ll go for a combination of sweet and savoury so that everyone has something that suits them perfectly. As always I’ll give a quick intro so you can make your own cannabis butter and oil.
Cannabis Bases
Making your own cannabis butter is easy if a little time consuming. You’ll need a half ounce of ground up weed, not too fine or it’ll slip through the net. Then you just need a glass baking dish and an oven. What you’re going to do is spread out your weed in the baking dish and pop it in your oven once it’s preheated to around 100 degrees celsius. Pop it in for 20 – 40 minutes just keep checking on it and shuffling every 10 minutes. When it gets to a deep brownish green your weed is ready.
Butter:
For butter you’ll take your decarboxylated weed and 226 grams of butter. Put the butter with 1 and a ½ cups of water into a saucepan and let it melt. When it’s melted add the weed and cover it letting it gently simmer for 4 hours. Then strain it through some cheese cloth and let it cool.
Oil:
You’ll need a cup of olive oil for every 3 grams of weed. We do the same thing as we did with the butter, put your ingredients together in a pan and heat covered for 20 minutes. Then uncover and stir before simmering for another 30 minutes. Strain through the cheese cloth and allow to cool.
Easter Eggs
Obviously we should start with the best part of Easter snacking, the Easter egg. I always thought these were a bit of a scam when I was a kid because it looks like you’re getting loads of chocolate and you end up with just sort of a shell. Which y’know…is fine but…anyway moving on. You will need:
- 35g Cannabis Butter
- 128g Chocolate Of Your Choice
Yup that’s literally all you need! Oh and obviously an Easter egg mould.
So let’s move on to the method:
You’re going to break up your chocolate and pop it in a bowl with your cannabis butter, preferably a glass bowl as we are going to make a bain marie.
Get yourself a pot, half fill it with water, bring it to the boil and put your glass bowl full of ingredients over the top.
Let the contents of the bowl melt making sure they don’t burn or bubble, keep stirring with a rubber spatula.
Take the bowl off the heat and let it cool, keep checking with a thermometer until the chocolate/butter gets to 35 degrees C.
Egg moulds come with two sides so carefully spoon the cooled chocolate into one side and spread it nice and thin, cleaning off the edges with a knife. Repeat this with the second side of the mould.
Pop some grease proof paper out and place the moulds face down onto them and leave for about 15 minutes until the chocolate has set.
While you do that, melt the last of the chocolate again and you’ll use that to brush the edges and seal the egg together. Just paint it over your egg edges once you’ve removed them from the moulds and press the edges together.
Once that has hardened there you god, you have your special Easter egg.
Easter Nest
These are my absolute favourite easter treat, which makes putting weed in them tricky because I find it very hard to stop eating them. Oh well, let’s just hope for the best I suppose, probably make these if you’re having a few people over so you can’t just keep going.
You will need:
- 50g Cannabis Butter
- 225g Plain Chocolate
- 2tbsp Golden Syrup
- 75g Corn Flakes (or similar cereal sold by a less problematic brand)
- Packet of Mini Eggs
Method:
Get yourself a cupcake tin and line it with paper cake casings.
Set yourself up a bain marie with a pot, boiling water, and a glass bowl parched on top.
Put the syrup, the chocolate and the cannabutter into the bowl together and let them melt into a lovely sticky soup.
Once the mixture is silky smooth you can take it off the heat and stir in the cornflakes, make sure they are all completely covered.
Use a nice big spoon to separate the mixture into the paper casings with a little dip in the middle.
Then grab a few of your mini eggs and put them into the centre of each nest.
Then all you need to do is pop them into the fridge for an hour and you’re all done! Probably one of the easiest Easter treats to make this year.
Easter Sugar Cookies
These are a fun group baking option because you can get all sorts of fun stuff to decorate your festive cannabis cookies.
You will need:
- 50g Cannabis Butter
- 175g Unsalted Butter
- 1 Egg
- 1tsp Vanilla Extract
- 330g Plain Flour
- 225g Caster Sugar
- 2tsp Baking Powder
Method:
Preheat your oven to 180 degrees C.
Put the butter and the sugar in a bowl and cream them together before adding in the vanilla and the egg.
In another bowl mix together your dry ingredients such as your flour and baking powder.
Then add this to the wet bowl a little at a time until you have a nice stiff dough.
Separate the dough into chunks, roll it out, then cut into any shape you like. Maybe get some bunny shapes etc to make it extra Eastery.
Bake for 8 – 10 minutes then let them cool on a rack until they are ready to decorate.
Come back next time for some yummy savoury Easter treats!
Written by Tasha Porritt
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