Gingerbread Ornaments & Pumpkin Chai: An OM Edibles Holiday Collaboration
Pumpkin Chai and Gingerbread Ornaments, photography by Monica Lo for OM Edibles
Experience the entourage effect of full-spectrum cannabis and other medicinal plants with OM’s Multi-Herb Elixirs. This Daytime blend of ginger & echinacea is pleasant in color, flavor, and odor; enjoy it straight from the dropper, added to a cozy beverage, or in your baked treats. Still stumped for ideas on how to use your tinctures?
Here are two tasty recipes to share with loved ones this winter starting with festive gingerbread ornaments that look like antique tiles, made with a cannabis-infused glaze. Dunk these babies in a cannabis-infused pumpkin chai for the ultimate holiday chill.
Hanging gingerbread ornaments, photography by Monica Lo for OM Edibles
Gingerbread Ornaments with OM Edibles Daytime Elixir
Makes about 20 2.5”cookies
Ingredients:
• 6 Tbsp butter, room temperature
• 1/3 cup, plus 2 Tbsp dark brown sugar
• 1/4 cup blackstrap molasses
• 1 large egg yolk
• 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus 2 Tbsp for dusting
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp ground cloves
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
Infused Glaze Ingredients
• 2/3 cup confectioners’ sugar
• 1/8 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 Tbsp butter, melted
• 1 Tbsp spirit of choice (I used hazelnut moonshine)
• 4 droppers (4ml) OM Edibles Daytime Elixir*
Directions:
1. Preheat the oven to 375ºF and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
2. In a stand mixer, place butter, sugar, and molasses and beat on medium speed until incorporated. Add egg yolk and beat until fully combined.
3. Sift the flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, salt, and pepper into a mixing bowl. Slowly add the dry ingredients into the mixer on low speed.
4. Once the mixture is combined, knead the dough by hand until it forms a ball. Roll out on a lightly floured surface until it is 1/4” thick.
5. Dip cookie stamps in additional flour and press into the dough to create a deep imprint. I used mooncake stamps instead of cookie stamps. Then use a 2.5” cookie cutter to cut cookies until the dough is used up.
6. Bake cookies for 10 minutes, rotating the sheets after halfway through.
7. Make the glaze by adding all ingredients into a small mixing bowl and whisking until uniform. The consistency should be thick and syrupy.
8. Remove cookies from oven and make a hole at the top of each cookie using a skewer. Allow to cool for 5 minutes before dipping or brushing with the cannabis-infused glaze. Cool completely on a wire rack.
9. Once cooled, attach string to hang cookies on mugs or use as a tasty ornament.
Pumpkin Chai, photography by Monica Lo for OM Edibles
Pumpkin Chai with OM Edibles Daytime Elixir
Serves 4
Dosage: 5mg THC/0.5mg CBD per person
Ingredients:
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 4 green cardamom pods
• 4 black cloves
• 1 star anise
• 4 black peppercorns
• 1/3 cup pumpkin puree
• 2 Tbsp grated ginger
• 2 1/2 cups water
• 3 black tea bags
• 2 cups dairy-free milk, like oat or coconut
• Sweetener like honey or brown sugar to taste
• 4 droppers (4ml) OM Edibles Daytime Elixir*
• Coconut whipped cream, optional
• Caramel, optional
Directions:
1. Add cinnamon stick, cardamom pods, cloves, star anise, and black peppercorns into a mortar and use the pestle to crush the spices into smaller pieces.
2. In a medium saucepan, add roughly crushed spices, pumpkin puree, grated ginger, water, and bring to a boil over high heat.
3. Reduce the heat to medium and add tea bags and dairy-free milk. Simmer for 5 minutes then turn off heat and steep for another 5 minutes.
4. Sweeten to taste and strain through a fine mesh strainer into mugs. Add a dropper of OM Edibles Daytime Elixir into each mug and stir well. Add a dollop of whipped cream and drizzle of caramel if you want to turn it into a sweet treat.
*If you don’t have access to OM Edibles Daytime Elixir, feel free to substitute with your preferred Sous Weed tincture or a serving of Sous Weed honey loosened with a bit of warm water.
