Nothing beats the decadence of peanut cookies with a butter cup center. They are presentable, speak love, and are tasty, making it a full package. If you are a CBD enthusiast, you can incorporate the cannabinoid in the recipe, as shown in this article.
Cookies are many people’s all-time favorite. These desserts speak love, and peanut butter cup cookies are no exception. Combining the ingredients enables you to come up with the best peanut butter cup cookies you have ever wanted, and you need not go to the restaurants or subways to pick them. Moreover, initial research finds CBD therapeutic; adding it to the peanut butter cup cookie recipe adds benefits. Here is all you need to know about preparing simple peanut butter cup cookies at home.
Why Peanut Butter Cup Cookies, and Why Prepare Them at Home?
The peanut butter cup cookies are a decadence incarnate; they are great in presentation and have the best taste. Peanut butter tastes good, and adding it to any recipe makes the results worth the move. Another way to explore its taste and greatness is by incorporating it into your cookies.
Making peanut butter cookies at home is not complicated,and the more you try the recipe, the better you become at preparing them as time goes by. Trying any recipe at home helps one control the ingredient list, using only what you need. When preparing the peanut butter cup cookies at home, you tailor the ingredient list to meet your needs.
Peanut Butter Cup Cookies Are Easy to Prepare
Making peanut butter cup cookies is about assembling the ingredients you need, wet and dry. The next stages involve mixing the wet and dry ingredients separately and combining them. You can then bake the cookies immediately or refrigerate them for 3 hours. You can also refrigerate it overnight, especially if you want the cookies to be chewier. The next stage would be about rolling the dough into balls, making them into cookies, and baking them for 10- 15 minutes. Moreover, the ingredients used for the peanut butter cup cookies are nothing out of the ordinary, so you don’t have to fret about finding them.
CBD in Peanut Butter Cup Cookies- What’s With CBD?
Walking in many health food stores, you will realize that it is one of the products lined up on the shelves. Besides, mist beauty and skincare products, including big brands, now feature CBD in their ingredient lists. What is CBD, and why does it grow in craze? According to Massi et al. (2006) and Bauer et al. (2020), CBD is a non-psychoactive chemical compound in hemp and other cannabis plants. Such compounds are typically called cannabinoids, and there are more than 140 of them in nature. What makes CBD stand out?
Many relate to the non-psychoactive nature. It does not make you ‘high,’ regardless of the amounts in which you administer it. Of course, there are many other cannabinoids, and THC, for instance, is widely studied as CBD. However, according to Schlienz et al. (2018), THC intoxicates. Unlike THC, CBD does not have intoxicating effects, so many like it. That’s not all; there is yet another reason CBD keeps becoming popular. According to Watt & Karl (2017), CBD is therapeutic, which may relate to. In fact, because of the therapeutic claims, CBD is increasing in demand, and more products keep featuring the cannabinoid.
Should You Add CBD to Your Peanut Butter Cup Cookies?
The common CBD desserts include cookies and brownies, although you can order CBD-infused cakes and have them prepared when you need them. When exploring it at home, should you add CBD to your peanut butter cup cookie recipe? Currently, the FDA does not recommend CBD in foods and drinks. However, the street is full of CBD edibles, and you may want to follow suit. After all, Hammell et al. (2016) stated that CBD can fight inflammation and the cannabinoid seems to have many benefits, although much is yet to be confirmed by studies.
Peanut Butter Cup Cookies with CBD: Ingredients
You need the following ingredients for this recipe;
- ½ teaspoon of salt
- 40 unwrapped minichocolate-covered peanut butter cups
- 1 teaspoon of baking soda
- 1 ¾ cup of all-purpose flour
- ½ cup of softened butter
- ½ cup peanut butter
- ½ cup white sugar
- ½ cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg, beaten
- 2 tablespoons of milk
Procedure
Follow the steps below to prepare the cookies;
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C)
- Sift together the dry ingredients (flour, salt, and baking soda) and set them aside
- In a separate bowl, mix the butter, peanut butter, sugar, and brown sugar until fluffy
- Mix in the eggs, vanilla, and milk
- Add the flour mixture as you mix well and shape it into 40 balls, placing each into an ungreased mini muffin pan for shaping
- Bake the cookies for 10- 15 minutes
- Remove from the oven and press a mini peanut butter cup into each ball immediately
- Allow the cool before carefully removing them from the pan
Conclusion
Peanut butter cup cookies are among the best. The peanut butter cups at the center of the cookies look great and enhance their taste. Do you want to make peanut butter cup cookies with CBD? Keep reading this article to know all it takes.
References
Bauer, B. A. (2020). What Are The Benefits Of CBD–And Is It Safe To Use?. In Mayo Clinic.
Hammell, D. C., Zhang, L. P., Ma, F., Abshire, S. M., McIlwrath, S. L., Stinchcomb, A. L., & Westlund, K. N. (2016). Transdermal cannabidiol reduces inflammation and pain-related behaviors in a rat model of arthritis. European journal of pain (London, England), 20(6), 936–948.
Massi, P., Vaccani, A., Bianchessi, S., Costa, B., Macchi, P., & Parolaro, D. (2006). The non-psychoactive cannabidiol triggers caspase activation and oxidative stress in human glioma cells. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences CMLS, 63(17), 2057-2066.
Schlienz, N. J., Lee, D. C., Stitzer, M. L., & Vandrey, R. (2018). The effect of high-dose dronabinol (oral THC) maintenance on cannabis self-administration. Drug and alcohol dependence, 187, 254-260.
Watt, G., & Karl, T. (2017). In vivo evidence for therapeutic properties of cannabidiol (CBD) for Alzheimer’s disease. Frontiers in pharmacology, 8, 20.
