RECIPE: Sriracha & Peanut Butter Cannabis Cookies
Sriracha & peanut butter cookies have been one of my favorite dessert recipes ever since I stumbled upon a recipe for them a few years back. I’ve played with the recipe a lot and put my version in The Veggie-Lover’s Sriracha Cookbook, but I never thought to mix it up with one of my other favorite ingredients –marijuana– until now…
Peanut butter and Sriracha already work surprisingly well together; think satay sauce with spicy Thai food and you’ll get an idea of what I mean. On a sweet cookie level, though, the Sriracha flavor comes through nicely at the end, with the fat from the peanut butter and the cannabis butter/coconut oil keeping the heat in check.
And the cannabis of course adds its own flair. Sure, this will be a wonderful treat for stoners and it can help provide some of the euphoria many people experience when using cannabis, but it’s also a medicine. Countless people live with debilitating diseases and chronic pain, yet are prohibited by the government from exploring natural remedies like marijuana. They’ve made it illegal to have a plant and you can be thrown in a cage like an animal for having it. An untold number of terminally-ill patients likely die without ever hearing a peep about marijuana therapies from their “doctor” and this just can’t continue any longer.
More data and independent research continues to show that marijuana can help cure an impressive list of diseases, not to mention help alleviate stress and anxiety that I would venture to say we all struggle with at times. Marijuana, along with psilocybin mushrooms and other psychedelics, have become instrumental tools in my self-growth and introspection and I can say without a doubt that they’ve helped me become a better person. I highly encourage you to check out the documentary Neurons to Nirvana: Understanding Psychedelic Medicines (available on Netflix).
“Fun” facts about the War on Drugs (which Rolling Stone called a “trillion-dollar failure” in mid-2015):
- Amount spent annually in the U.S. on the war on drugs: More than $51,000,000,000
- Number of people arrested in 2014 in the U.S. on nonviolent drug charges: 1.5 million
- Number of people arrested for a marijuana law violation in 2013: 693,482 (88% of those for mere possession)
- Number of Americans incarcerated in 2013 in federal, state and local prisons and jails: 2,220,300 or 1 in every 110 adults, the highest incarceration rate in the world.
Prohibition and government attempts to control the lives of individuals have always failed in the long run and they will never succeed; they only create spending and suffering. And frankly, I’m tired of governments interfering with our lives, which is why I’ve moved to New Hampshire as part of the Free State Project to help put an end to this tyranny. It’s not going to happen overnight, sadly… but we can all do our part to call out the foul acts and hypocrisy of the ruling class. And if you ever get too worked up or frustrated hearing about their latest screw-ups, just take a moment to relax… and breathe… and have a cannabis cookie.
Sriracha & Peanut Butter Cannabis Cookies recipe
These tasty cannabis cookies are sure to bring a smile to your face! This recipe is perfect for cutout cookies… and check out this neat marijuana cookie cutter I found on Amazon! If you’d prefer to do drop cookies, simply scoop them out onto you cookie sheet using an ice cream scoop and press them down using the bottom of a glass to flatten them to ¼" thickness.
1 ½ cup all-purpose flour
¾ tsp baking soda
¼ tsp salt
½ cup cannabis coconut oil or cannabutter (see recipe links below)
½ cup sugar
½ cup firmly packed light brown sugar
½ cup creamy peanut butter
2 Tablespoons Sriracha
1 egg (or 1 Tablespoon ground flax seed mixed with 3 tablespoons water)
Hemp seeds, for garnish (optional)
In a small bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside. In a stand mixer or medium bowl with a hand mixer, beat the cannabis coconut oil, sugar, and brown sugar together until light and fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes. Mix in the peanut butter, Sriracha, and egg at a low speed until incorporated. Add in the reserved flour mixture and mix until combined.
Divide the dough into three pieces. Place each portion of dough on its own large piece of plastic wrap and cover with another piece of plastic wrap. Roll each piece out to about 1/4″ thickness using a rolling pin. Pop in the refrigerator for one hour.
Preheat the oven to 375°F. Remove the dough from the fridge and cut out your cookies using your favorite cookie cutters. Place them on a lined cookie sheet and decorate with hemp seeds. Press very lightly to secure the seeds on the cookies. Return cookies to the refrigerator for 15 minutes. Bake until golden brown, 8 to 10 minutes. Let the cookies stay on the baking sheet until slightly cooled, then transfer to a wire rack.
Makes about 36 cannabis cookies. Each person’s tolerance and reaction to marijuana is different, so please be smart and decide for yourself how many or how few you’d like to consume in a sitting. You can always go back for seconds if you aren’t getting your desired effects.
How to make cannabis coconut oil {via The Stoner’s Cookbook}
How to make cannabis butter aka cannabutter {via The Stoner’s Cookbook}
Other tasty Sriracha recipes {via The Sriracha Cookbook}
Derek Sarno—creator of Whole Foods Market’s Ninja Squirrel Sriracha—out in the field
