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Recipes for a high Christmas

Chill out during Christmas with these festive snacks and beverages full of weed

As soon as Mariah Carey blasts out of the speakers and Chris Rea is on his way, you know Christmas is almost here. Is it going to be a somewhat boring family affair with a lot of food and drinks, or are you alone at Christmas? In both cases, it can do no harm to spice up the food, or rather: to space it up. And to help you a little we have selected great cannabis recipes for you to try. Enjoy!

Spacey Christmas cake

A classic. Perfect for the holidays. The delicious spacey Christmas cake. This is how you make it:

Preheat the oven to 160 degrees Celcius. Mix 200 grams of cannabutter, 1 small bag of vanilla sugar, and 200 grams of sugar in a bowl. Now mix 3 eggs one by one. Then slowly add 50 ml of milk and the cake flour as you mix until the dough is smooth. Now grease a cake tin and fill it with your dough. Place the baking pan in the middle of the oven. It takes about an hour and fifteen minutes before your cake is ready. Decorate the cake with powdered sugar for a festive effect.

Weed cocktails

A drink can of course not be missed during the holidays. Fortunately, weed cocktails are very easy to make. Choose your favorite spirits (preferably with a high alcohol percentage such as vodka, gin or whiskey, rather not drinks with only 30% alcohol). Decarboxylate your weed. Take a look at the butter recipe below to see how to do that and mix drinks and weed together. Use approximately 7 g of ground weed on a 750-milliliter bottle. Of course, you can always add a little less weed.

Cupcakes to make you happy

Cupcakes are super easy to make in advance using cupcake packs you can buy at any supermarket. Replace the regular butter with cannabutter and you’re good to go. Naturally, cupcakes are perfect for being beautifully decorated. Be very careful when serving cupcakes if there are children around.

Weed ice cream

Pour 500 ml whipped cream into a saucepan and let it simmer. Melt 50 grams of cannabutter and 75 grams of sugar in another pan. Puree some strawberries and/or bananas with a hand blender and mix all the ingredients together. After a night in the freezer, you have a delicious dessert.

Weed butter recipe (cannabutter)

15 grams of dry weed
250 grams of butter
½ liter (500 ml) of water
1 cheesecloth

Need cannabutter for one of the cannabis recipes above? Here’s how to make it.

First, you have to decarboxylate your weed. This ensures that the THC-A in the weed is converted into the substance THC, the substance that ensures that the weed has the effect we like so much.

Decarboxylate as follows: put your oven on 115 degrees Celcius and slide a baking sheet with aluminum foil with your crumbled weed spread in it. It takes approximately 60 minutes for the decarboxylation to be completed. The weed turns brown from baking, that is normal.

Melt the butter in a pan, let it simmer but do not boil. If the weed is decarboxylated, add it to the butter. Stir well. The longer you can let the mixture simmer without burning, the better. If the weed is well absorbed by the butter (after a few hours) then you grab a cheesecloth and span it over a bowl. Now throw the mixture over the cheesecloth in the bowl. You sieve the mess from the weed butter in no time. Now you can let the butter harden in the fridge. You can keep cannabis butter in the fridge for two weeks. In the freezer even for six months.

Christmas recipes with cannabis

You have to wait a moment, but the effects will be extra intense

Eating weed is different from smoking weed, so you have to be very careful. If you eat weed, you will only feel the effects much later. Moreover, that effect is often much more intense than when you smoke weed. So it is possible that you panic, feel nauseous or completely overwhelmed. If this is the case, take some vitamin C and eat sweet things (without weed). Sit quietly and wait until the effect has subsided. That can take a while because the high of edibles last much longer than when smoking a joint. So make sure that you do not eat too much and wait at least an hour and a half before you start eating more.

We are open during the holidays

Pass by our coffeeshop in Amsterdam when you are out shopping for the holidays. Or to get ingredients for the delicious cannabis recipes we selected for you. We are open every day from 8 AM to 1 AM. Our coffeeshop is located on the border of Amsterdam and Amstelveen. Right next to the Amsterdamse Bos.

Recipe banana ice cream

Over-heating? Treat yourself to cannabis ice cream

You already know that weed isn’ just for smoking. And we don’t have to tell you either that with the summer temperatures of July you can use something to cool you down. That’s why we have an extra summery treat in store for you: cannabis-banana ice cream. Really? Yes, really. You can easily make it at home and you only need 7 ingredients. Of course, you can buy the weed at your favorite coffeeshop in Amsterdam: The Border.

Recipe cannabis ice cream

Ripe bananas for recipe cannabis ice cream

Let’s start with the ingredients. To make cannabis ice cream at home, you need the following:

about 450 grams of ripe bananas
500 milliliters of cream
30 grams of butter
10 grams of finely ground weed
5 tablespoons of sugar
5 tablespoons of honey
3 tablespoons of rum
pinch of salt
optional: small amount of beetroot or cherry juice

Are you looking for a good grinder to grind your weed? In our coffeeshop we sell grinders of different materials, in different colors and sizes. Feel free to ask about our grinders when you visit our cannabis café at the Amstelveenseweg 1160 in Amsterdam.

And this is how you make it

First, pour the cream into a saucepan and heat it up. Just make sure it doesn’t reach the boiling point. As soon as the cream has warmed up you can add the finely ground weed.
Meanwhile, melt the butter in another saucepan and mix it with the sugar and a pinch of salt. Make sure the butter doesn’t get too hot by turning down the heat as soon as the butter has melted.
Then mix the two mixtures. Beat it by hand or use a mixer until you reach a light and creamy consistency. Optional: add a little of beet or cherry juice to your cannabis banana ice cream to give it a summery color.
Mash the ripe bananas in a large bowl until smooth and add the cream mixture. Mix it well and add the honey and rum. Keep beating until the mixture is creamy and airy.
Done? Put the mixture into the freezer for at least 3 hours. Use a rectangular, plastic or silicone tray or container. Check every now and then to see if the banana ice cream has hardened enough and reached the consistency of ice cream.

Once the banana ice cream has hardened nicely, you can use an ice scoop to scoop out the ice cream. Decorate with whatever you want and enjoy your cannabis banana ice cream. Invite some friends or your neighbor over to join you. The more the merrier, right?

Soon you can buy cannabis ice cream at the supermarket

CBD ijs Ben & Jerry's

Photo: Ben & Jerry’s

Don’t feel like going through the trouble of making your own weed ice cream? Soon, all you have to do for a scoop of cannabis ice cream is walking to your local supermarket. Seriously? Yes. The American company Ben & Jerry’s is eager to bring cannabis ice cream on the market soon.

They are developing an ice cream that contains CBD (cannabidiol), a cannabis oil that contains virtually no THC. So you won’t get high from eating their ice cream, but you will benefit from all the health benefits of cannabis. Research shows that CBD helps with stress, insomnia, spasms, pain and more.

More and more countries are therefore legalizing the substance. CBD occurs naturally in the hemp plant (just like THC) and therefore falls under the Opium Act in the Netherlands. In order to keep the production of CBD legal, hemp is currently produced in the Netherlands and processed abroad into CBD oil, after which it can be sold in the Netherlands again.

CBD is therefore not yet fully legal in the Netherlands. Whether the ice cream of Ben & Jerry’s can also be sold in our country is therefore questionable. Fortunately, you can always use our recipe to get your ice cream fix. However, it is expected that CBD will soon be recognized as a medicine in the Netherlands, as is already the case in the United Kingdom, and that will probably result in the legalization of CBD oil production and processing altogether. Fingers crossed.

Cannabis and hay fever - de perfect cure

Can cannabis be the perfect cure for hay fever?

We all know by now that cannabis is a very powerful plant. We can read about the medicinal properties of cannabis in the news almost every day thanks to all the researchers out there. The amazing cannabis plant has over 100 active ingredients and a multitude of aromatic components. Now that spring is in full swing, we wanted to take a closer look at the relationship between cannabis and seasonal allergies such as hay fever. Can it be the perfect cure?