Carrot Cake Cookies
These are Carrot Cake Cookies for adults only and use a cannabis-infused butter, Buddha Budda. Both are creations of Karin Lazarus and from her book, Sweet Mary Jane. These, along with her OMG! Brownie Cheesecake Bars, are examples of her fabulous take on baking with pot. She runs a bakery in Colorado, CO and has been called the “Martha Stewart of weed baking”. If you want to branch out beyond pot brownies you have to get her book.
Excerpted with permission. Sweet Mary Jane: 75 Delicious Cannabis-Infused High-End Desserts
These seductive cookies could make a bunny’s nose twitch—but there’s no rabbit food here, only golden ribbons of carrots intertwined with tart cherries sandwiching a voluptuous cloud of creamy filling. Nibble away!
- Vegetable shortening, for greasing the baking sheets
- 2½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- ½ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup Buddha Budda
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup plus 2 tablespoons firmly packed light brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- ¾ cup grated peeled carrots (about 2½ carrots)
- ¾ cup dried cherries
- 1½ tablespoons unsalted butter, slightly softened
- 6 ounces cream cheese, slightly softened
- 3 tablespoons shortening
- ¼ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2½ cups powdered sugar
- Prepare the cookies: Preheat the oven to 375°F. Weigh the bowl that you will be using to hold the finished batter and write down this number. Grease two baking sheets with vegetable shortening, or line them with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, oats, baking soda, baking powder, cin-namon, ginger, nutmeg, and salt.
- In a large bowl using an electric mixer, cream together the Buddha Budda and granulated and brown sugars on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add the eggs and vanilla.
- Reduce the mixer speed to low and add the flour mixture. Add the carrots and dried cherries and combine well.
- Weigh the batter, subtract the weight of the bowl, and divide by 24. This is your per-cookie weight. Place a piece of parchment paper on your scale and weigh out the batter for each cookie. Place the batter on the prepared baking sheets, spacing the cookies 2 inches apart. Flatten them with the palm of your hand so that each cookie is about ¼ inch thick.
- Bake the cookies, one sheet at a time, for 9 to 11 minutes, or until the tops are a light golden brown. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Prepare the cream cheese filling: In a large bowl using an electric mixer, cream the butter, cream cheese, shortening, and vanilla together on medium speed until smooth. Reduce the mixer speed to low and gradually add the powdered sugar, scraping down the sides of the bowl frequently. Beat until smooth.
- Pipe or spoon a dollop of the filling onto the flat side of half the cooled cookies and top with remaining cookies.
- Wrap tightly in aluminum foil and store in the refrigerator for up to 1 week, or in the freezer for up to 3 months. If you are going to freeze these, don’t fill the cookies. Defrost and then fill them.
Congratulations on thinking outside the buzz ! I haven’t seen any recipes using cannabis on a ‘mainstream’ website until now.
I have experienced a high from good ole brownies baked with Buddha Budda, and will definitely be trying others. Keep up the good work!
Thank you Lloyd. We are in MA and in fact a friend’s daughter is working on opening a dispensary in the state for medical marijuana usage. And of course we just got back from Denver where we taped our CRAFTSY class and were inundated with the presence of legal marijuana sales out there. It is a sign of the times. Of course the legalities vary state to state and we trust that adults will use this information intelligently. If you have interest in baking with pot this book is really very well done and you will find it to be a great resource.
Okay! So absoulety loved the completed recipe, and everything ended up turning out amazing! The only suggestion would be to simply edit the ingredients list to include 2 large eggs and not just one! That was my only issue! Thank you for getting me baked!! I mean letting me bake!