I got high and baked a hemp - infused blueberry cheesecake and … I only know up once !
July 30th was National Cheesecake Day , because we ’ve reach the tip of our existence where we need to point a celebration for every single 24-hour interval of our lives . So cheesecake , that creamy caloric confection that ’s loved byGolden Girls , Friends(even in floor form ) , and ancient Grecians alike , gets its own day to shine . And what good mode to truly honor this full-bodied , sweet treat than by infuse it with marihuana ?
Not one to back aside from a challenge ( or , at the very least , make a fool of myself and chronicle the experience forLeafly ) , I set out to make not just a hemp - infused cheesecake , but a blueberry bush cheesecake infuse withBlueberry Cheesecakeafter I vaped say Blueberry Cheesecake . I would create theInceptionof cheesecake ! The Russian nesting wench of cheesecakes ! The “ Yo dawg ” of cheesecake ! It ’d be cheesecakes all the room down !
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There was just one small problem : I had n’t actually ever made a cheesecake before , let alone baked one while , well , baked . But no matter ! To cite Lao Tzu : “ The journey of a thousand mil start out with a individual pace . ” It just so happened that my single whole step was to tackle a reasonably complicated culinary feat while under the influence of a fruityhybrid . Oh well .
Step 1: Make cannabutter and assemble ingredients
I picked up ¼oz of Blueberry Cheesecake from my local dispensary , and followed Leafly ’s formula for makingcannabis - steep butter . Since the cheesecake recipe I project on using ( courtesy of Epicurious ) called for ½ cup of butter for the crust , I cut our cannabutter formula by ¾ and figured it ’d be good to simmer it on the range instead of the crockpot , as I was afraid of burning the ingredients . After 2½ hour of reek up my home with grassy , herby good , I strained out the bloom and refrigerated the budder to utilize the next day .
Step 2: Enjoy some flower
The next afternoon , I point to a coworker ’s flat two blocks from the Leafly HQ , cheesecake ingredients in tow . Along for the ride were Julia , Leafly ’s photo editor , and Rocco , who dish as my sous chef since he ’s baked many delicious cheesecakes and would avail un - screw - up any screw - ups I ’d undoubtedly make .
We grind up some Blueberry Cheesecake and I soon felt the indica - be given hybrid ’s reposeful , euphoric effects . The strain by all odds had some fruity feeling and a hint of sweetness , with Rocco detecting some citrus and earthy distinction as well . My puff were smooth , and after a seemingly never - ending bowl , I felt ready to channel my inner Swedish Chef . Let ’s do this !
Step 3: Make the crust
The Epicurious recipe calls for wrapping your springform pan in aluminum foil so you could submerge it in a water supply bath while baking . Rocco guessed that the foil and water supply would inadvertently assist protect the cannacrust and also result in an airier cheesecake . ( It turns out the water bath helps cook the cheesecake more equally . ) I swaddled my pan in a makeshift nappy and assured myself that my little cheesecake babe would turn out just o.k. .
I melted my cannabutter on the stovetop , mesmerise as the hardened sherd softened into a osculate - of - green melt consistence . After transferring the butter , some lettuce , and graham cracker into the stand mixer , I keep an eye on the paddle walk-in with the ingredients to create a terpsichore of barely wash lowlife .
Next , I dump the mixture into my springform cooking pan , push around grain like I was building the world ’s most tactless sand castle . I fumble - form an imposingly awry crust , with one side an inch thick while its opposite looked like a past - its - blossom Stretch Armstrong begging to be put out of its misery . Rocco to the deliverance ! He expertly evened out my instill crust while I pondered what the hell I had gotten myself into .
I popped the incrustation into the oven , go under a timer for eight minutes , promptly forgot about the crust , freaked out when the timekeeper went off , run around the kitchen looking for a telegram rack to rest the pan onto , and settled on what look like a gigantic meshing fry spatter lid . With my crust cool atop my make-do program , it was clock time to bend my attention to the filling .
Step 4: Blend the filling
Sugar , cream cheese , testicle , sour cream , milk , and vanilla extract excerpt plopped into the outdoor stage mixer and whirlpool into a creamy pale hitter . Julia peered in and say , “ It looks soupy . ” Cue the paranoia : OH MY GOD IT DOES LOOK RUNNY THIS affair ISN’T GOING TO COOK I JUST MADE A CHEESECAKE SOUP WHY DID I recall THIS WAS A full IDEA ? !
Noticing the looking at of abject terror on my typeface , she promptly added , “ I ’m indisputable it ’s ok ! It ’ll tauten up when it bakes ! ” I nodded , swim my pastry pity company in a couplet finger easy lay of batter . Ooh , that ’s secure . Julia agreed : “ It tastes really yummy ! ”
Step 5: Belatedly add the ingredients you forgot
I hadjustfinished scooping the last chunk of batter from the stadium into the springform pan when
I hear Julia say , “ Hey , what ’s this for ? ” She hold up a glass sports stadium containing a little mound of white powder .
Oh shit . The flour . I FORGOT TO MIX IN THE FLOUR ! ! ! ! !
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I wail in despair , unleashing my undecomposed Vader “ Nooooooooooo . ”
“ No wonder it looked mushy ! ” Thanks , Julia .
“ We can fix this ! ” Rocco assured me . We spent the next several minutes carefully best enough filling out of the cooking pan back into the mixer so I could add the flour , then I re - poured the set batsman into the derped batter and twiddle everything together in a sad attempt to incorporate the two in holy battertrimony .
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“ I feel like I ’m giving this matter a massage , ” I mussitate as I gently caressed the filling with my spatula . Perhaps vaping and baking do n’t pair well , after all . ( I ’m kidding , they still do . )
Step 6: Give the cheesecake a bath and bake it
After eating my feeling in the manikin of corrected hitter ( Julia , helpfully : “ It try out yummier with the flour ” ) , I placed my Frankencake into a large roasting cooking pan and filled the pan with about an inch of piddle before implore to the baking gods and shoving it into the oven . It baked for an hour , then sat in the oven for another hour after I turned off the heat . Rocco show me how to feel the cheesecake and look for its touch “ bounce ” to approximate its doneness . I poked it and it felt springy , with little bubbles formed along the top . It was either done or it was going to blow like a homemade grade school volcano . ( Hopefully the former . )
Step 7: Chill, then top with blueberries
My coworker babysat my little cheesecake child overnight . The next sidereal day , I returned to his apartment , cracked some wonky crust off the top , and made a fruit compote by mixing melted blueberry bush preserve with fresh blueberry . This matter look surprisingly good ! But how did it taste ?
Step 8: Recruit some guinea pigs to try the cheesecake
I was n’t sure whether the cheesecake was potent or even remotely eatable . The recipe teach me to broil the cake at 375 degrees , so I was worried that some of the infused butter burned off at that combustion point . I did put ¼oz of bloom into it , though , so I hoped some of it stick around to surrender some detectable outcome .
Despite the fact that I had never made cannabutter , a cheesecake , or a hemp - tincture cheesecake , and fairly much had no mind what I was doing at every stage of this outgrowth , I convinced my coworkers to try my culinary experimentation . It turn out gratuitous cannabis - infused treat at the end of the work day on a Friday are n’t a hard sell , and my peers swarmed upon the dessert like savage piranha stripping essence from a bone . The feedback via Slack was fleet , and let in such eloquent sentiments as “ holy hell , this cheesecake is BOMB AF ” and “ om nom nom nom bomb bomb bomb . ”
The filling taste great – I could n’t discover any lasting damage from my flour fuck - up , as the al-Qa’ida was creamy , tangy , and sweet-smelling , with peachy grain and consistence . As for the insolence , which was where the extract took place , I noticed a suggestion of " scraggy " flavoring but it was n’t overtake or off - putting .
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My coworkers did n’t seem to beware the cheekiness , either :
" The incrustation is SO GOOD . Well , the whole thing is unspoiled , [ but ] the Earth’s crust is fucking yummy . "
" I recollect the pick part tasted antic and just like a normal blueberry bush cheesecake , and then the crust definitely taste more scraggy , but I like that flavor so it added to the flavour experience . ”
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" The ' weedy ' flavor is really coming out as I get to the edge . It tastes like a veritable cheesecake until you try the crust on its own . ”
“ Once you get to the oddment , the crust got a trivial crusty . It gets a little skinny . That said , I ate every last rat … and cream my plate a minuscule minute . ”
Okay , so the cheesecake tasted bang-up , but how stiff was it ? I line up the effect to be somewhat meek but pleasant and enjoyable . One coworker said : " I ’d pretend I had peradventure 15 - 20 atomic number 12 in a 1.5 - inch slice . Very mellow , overnice body mellow and in spades noticeable but totally okay for socialise . "
Another note : " It ’s nice ! Pretty mild but quite a pleasant little head high . "
Success ! I felt triumphant , having attain my destination of broil a Blueberry Cheesecake - infused blueberry cheesecake while I was high on Blueberry Cheesecake . Now which formula should I harness next ? Decisions , decisions …
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