Cannabis-infused Gingerbread Cookies for the Holidaze!
Let’s face it! The holidays can be a bit stressful. Winter is normally the time that Nature is asking us to turn intuitively inward and yet Culture is asking us to be out and about, socializing and shopping. It can be a depleting time of year and sometimes a bit joyless, so put some pep in your step and take the edge off with some cannabis-tinged gingerbread cookies!
This recipe will instruct using Synergy Wellness tincture # 119 Sativa Blend in Sesame oil.
Edibles are a tricky thing and you have to do some calculus to make sure you are getting a happy amount in each cookie. You also must remember that these are delicious so you don’t want to eat the whole batch! So dosing these is up to your own measurements. I personally like my edibles to be in the 5-7 mg THC range. So, if I were to make these cookies, I would probably aim for about half that amount in each cookie so I could eat two because who just wants to eat one cookie? Not I!
You can also choose to make these with a CBD-dominant tincture so that their psychotropic effects are not detectable but you will still be getting all the benefits that CBD can bring (anti-anxiety, anti-inflammatory). For CBD tincture, dosage is not as important.
This recipe yields 36 cookies and I will be calculating this recipe with a dose of roughly 3 mg THC Per cookie. Please adjust accordingly. And it’s always recommended, no matter how delicious, that you start with one cookie and wait an hour to see how it affects you (unless you are well aware of your tolerances and limits).
Feel free to decorate by frosting/icing to your heart’s delight (Your decorations might be more fanciful if you eat a cookie first before icing the rest of the batch!).
From our Synergy Wellness family to yours, we wish you a very healthy, happy, and high holiday season!
Start to finish: 90 minutes
Yield: 36 cookies
Ingredients
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 Tbsp ginger, ground
1 3/4 tsp cinnamon, ground
1⁄4 tsp cloves, ground
6 Tbsp butter
@ 6-7 droppers-full of #119 tincture (bear in mind, a ‘dropperful’ is usually about ¾ of the pipette)
3⁄4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs, large
1/2 cup molasses
2 tsp vanilla
1 tsp lemon zest (optional)
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375 ºF.
2. Prepare baking sheets by lining with parchment paper.
3. In a small bowl, whisk together dry ingredients.
4. In a large mixing bowl beat butter and sugar until smooth.
5. Add molasses, vanilla, and #119 tincture and lemon zest and continue to mix.
6. Gradually stir in dry ingredients until blended and smooth.
7. Let stand at room temperature for at least 1 hour.
8. Sprinkle flour over dough and rolling pin. Roll dough to 1/4-inch thick. Use additional flour to avoid sticking.
9. Cut out cookies with desired cutter and space cookies approx. 1 inch apart on cookie sheet.
10. Sprinkle sugar on top of cookies (or, once baked and cooled, decorate as you wish.)
11. Bake for 7-10 minutes.