Stoner Sundae: How To Make Weed Ice Cream

The following recipe creates a plain, white ice cream base. To add flavor, steep your milk with vanilla or herbs before mixing it with the weed cream. Peetz likes balancing out marijuana’s earthy flavor with a sweet and sour strawberry rhubarb topping, made by cooking the fresh fruit with sugar until the water has evaporated. Heat the weed cream and milk to a simmer in a medium saucepan. Turn off the heat, and add the rest of the ingredients except for the eggs and salt. Whisk to dissolve the sugar and milk powder. The xanthan gum may not dissolve totally. In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs until frothy and temper with a small amount of the hot cream mixture. Pour everything back into the saucepan. Turn the heat back on low and slowly bring the mixture up to 173 degrees, stirring the bottom of the pot often with a rubber spatula. Remove from heat. Add salt. Blend the mixture on a blender’s low setting for one minute. Strain through a fine sieve into a container. Place the container in an ice bath. Let chill completely. Add honey or maple syrup to sweeten. For a bright flavor, add a squeeze of lemon. Spin the liquid mixture in your ice cream machine and serve.

On the one hand, the question of how to make a birthday cake for kids might seem simple: bake a cake, decorate it and serve it to little people. However, taking time to refine your choices in flavors and design techniques to be tailored to kids’ preferences will serve your cake decorating skills for years to come. After all, you might just find yourself with a yearly returning customer! Here are some tips for creating unique and crowd-pleasing children’s birthday cakes. Making a kids birthday cake involves the same set of skills that you’d need to create a wedding cake or any type of special occasion cake, but there’s a lot more license for color and whimsy.

These days, kids are more and more adventurous in their eating. However, when it comes to a group of kids, it’s safest to stick with crowd-pleasing favorites. Chocolate, vanilla or yellow cakes are always winners, and each can be dressed up in so many creative ways, from coloring the cake to creating fanciful exteriors. Use color and lots of it. It’s easy to add color by creating a surprise-inside cake with a rainbow of colors or adding sprinkles to the batter for a rainbow chip effect. Different colors of buttercream between layers can also create a hidden color surprise. On the exterior of the cake, colorful sprinkles and tinted icing are always hits.

However, if you are using fondant to cover your cake, keep in mind that stronger colors, such as the ones used on this vivid Spider-Man cake, can bleed if condensation forms. So, just be sure that the cake will not be exposed to extreme heat or humidity. Create a “fusion” dessert by incorporating cookies or candy into birthday cakes for kids. Crumbled or whole cookies as garnish are always a welcome addition on a birthday cake. Candy can add color and flavor to your cake and can be used to create a number of fun design elements, such as on the cake above. It would make Willy Wonka himself jump with delight! You can start with a cake design inspired by any number of beautiful design templates, but be sure to add personal details. Adding the birthday boy’s or girl’s favorite colors, or referencing favorite sports, movies or activities in your cake decorating will make the cake all the more special. Including custom messages or lettering can add even more personalization to your project. You’ll never find a more receptive or appreciative audience than kids if you incorporate gravity-defying effects to your cake decorating. Whether it’s an involved feat such as the waffle cake above or a lovely hot air balloon cake such as the one featured in Clean & Simple Birthday Cakes, these cakes will help kids’ imaginations take flight.



You can make good ice cream without an ice cream maker. There are a number of ways to accomplish this and if you click here you can see the collection of posts I am accumulating on this topic. But in this post I want to share with you what I think is the single best technique I have found so far. It is simple to implement. You don’t need any special tools. And it results in a smooth textured, easy to scoop, even after hard freezing in your freezer ice cream whose flavor possibilities are open ended, limited to your imagination. There are of course tradeoffs.