Description
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“The Martha Stewart of weed baking” (New York magazine) offers a beautifully photographed, gourmet guide to baking with marijuana.
From her Sweet Mary Jane bakery in Boulder, Colorado, Karin Lazarus has made it her mission to bring flavor, passion and innovation to a cuisine previously best known for pot brownies. Using premium medicinal marijuana, good-quality chocolates, real butter, and other natural whole foods and adventurous ingredients, Lazarus has won legions of loyal fans with sophisticated treats like
Smashing Pumpkin White Chocolate-Pumpkin Bars, Sweet Temptation Mango Sorbet, and
Chocolate Almond Delights. And now, Lazarus is ready to bring information about her baking techniques and her recipes to the nation. With the medicinal use of marijuana now legal in 22 states and recreational use legal in 2,
Sweet Mary Jane is the go-to book for baking with weed.
With beautiful photography throughout,
Sweet Mary Jane caters to health-conscious bakers who want to know how weed can be incorporated into baked goods and who would rather ingest than smoke; millenials throwing dinner parties ; foodies using top of the line marijuana to bake with their high-end chocolate; and people with serious medical conditions who want [delicious] relief from their symptoms. Lazarus provides a simple primer on making essential staples like cannabis-infused butter, cannabis-infused coconut oil, and THC-infused sugar; a chapter on dosing and how to make sure your edible treat is the exact potency you want; and, of course, 75 delectable and deliciously-infused recipes from Colorado’s most beloved bakery – recipes that can be made with or without the infusion of marijuana.
Review
"With her culinary skills, perfectionism, bohemian-meets-Etsy style, and place at the top of a booming business, Karin Lazarus is poised to become the Martha Stewart of weed baking."—
New York Magazine
"Karin Lazarus is the Christina Tosi of Pot Brownies."—
The Braiser
About the Author
Karin Lazarus founded Sweet Mary Jane in Boulder, Colorado, after her Chocolate-filled Pandan Dumplings won the grand prize in Scharffen Berger’s “Chocolate Adventure” 2010 contest. A Long Island native, Karin Lazarus now lives in Boulder.
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Introduction
Our kitchen in Boulder, Colorado, sits quietly among the foothills of the Front Range, far from a main road. We don’t have a big sign that shows people where to find us; as a matter of fact, we don’t have any sign at all. You need to enter a security code to get inside in the morning, and set it again when you leave at night. Some people might find this unusual, having to bake under security cameras that watch you 24/7, and, truthfully, at first it was a bit strange for all of us in the kitchen. But now we don’t even think about it.
I’m Karin Lazarus, founder of Sweet Mary Jane Bakery. I’ve been baking since I was eight, when my mom gave me a Sunbeam Mixmaster and a Betty Crocker cookbook. My mother kept our family’s pantry stocked with all the goodies Hostess had to offer, plus what she herself baked. We ate sweet treats all the time: homemade chocolate pudding with toasted walnuts and a dollop of freshly whipped cream, Linzer cookies filled with raspberry preserves and dusted with powdered sugar, icebox cookie cake, and chocolate chip cookies baked at the drop of a hat, just because. She’d even top homemade waffles with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream and pure maple syrup. That got me out of bed in the morning! I had the biggest sweet tooth in the universe, and my mom made sure I could satisfy it. But even back then, I wanted to make things on my own.
After baking my very first batch of chocolate chip cookies, my family’s oohs and ahhs were such a thrill. Oh, I was hooked. I was a Girl Scout, and of course I sold Girl Scout cookies, but as I was delivering boxes to the neighbors, I fantasized about having made the cookies myself. In the su
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