CBD Infused Croutons
My family loves these croutons. We can’t even go back to store-bought croutons, ever.
I have been trying to find a recipe for my teenage daughter that I can make with CBD for her anxiety that doesn’t taste like cannabis. I tried cookies, gummies, and even infused honey. But she never liked the taste of any of it. The savory flavors of the garlic and spices work really well with the flavor of the cannabis infusion.
CBD or Cannabidiol is a cannabinoid in the Cannabis plant that does not have intoxicating effects but it has many benefits. You might be wondering why I am calling CBD Cannabis instead of hemp. Cannabis and hemp are the same plant. Basically, hemp plants generally contain more CBD, and cannabis plants contain more tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a compound that causes the 'high' that people associate with cannabis use.
CBD can help reduce anxiety and depression. It is an antioxidant, antipsychotic, and neuroprotectant.It eliminates nausea and vomiting, relieves chronic pain and reduces spasticity. As a matter of fact the popular CBD cultivar, Charlotte’s Web, was named after a 5 year old girl, Charlotte Figi. She had up to 300 grand mal seizures a week due to her Dravet Syndrome. When her family, working with doctors, started giving her CBD oil she immediately reduced her seizures to 1 or 2 a month.
I started by using my homemade sourdough bread to make the bread cubes but when I don’t have my bread handy my next favourite is Ciabatta bread or buns cut up into cubes. You want a hardier bread and not a really fluffy bread or it will get soggy from the oils.
I started by using my homemade sourdough bread to make the bread cubes but when I don’t have my bread handy my next favourite is Ciabatta bread or buns cut up into cubes. You want a hardier bread and not a really fluffy bread or it will get soggy from the oils.
This recipe is also very versatile. I use coconut oil, olive oil, AND butter in this recipe and you could infuse any of them with cannabis or other herbs. You can use your Levo for infusing rosemary, garlic, basil, as well as cannabis into any oil.
You will want to prepare your infusion in advance. You can get all sorts of infusion machines from Amazon. You can use a Levo, or Ardent FX, or Magic Butter Machine for infusing. I have all three. But you can also use a water bath in a crock pot.
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When making cannabis infusions it is important to calculate the dosage of your final product. Many people have had bad experiences because they did not know the dose.My husband and I had to develop “the half rule” at the beginning of our experimenting. Make sure you do the dosage math to determine approximately how much cannabis is in the recipe. There are Cannacalculator Apps available also.
I like to use 1 Tbsp of my CBD infusion (or CBG or THC or combinations). It’s about 36 mg per Tbsp. We usually have 3 or 4 people sharing which, in a perfect world, is about 9 - 12 mg of CBD per person.
