During the fall season, the sidewalks are decorated with orange and red leaves as we ring in the season with pumpkin spice.
Starbucks’ latte is the reason for the widespread popularity of pumpkin spice. Social media becomes alive with excitement every year when Pumpkin Spice Lattes become available.
Our brains are responsible for our enjoyment of pumpkin spice. Since it invokes memories of the past, we love pumpkin spice more for its aroma than its flavor.
We taste and smell pumpkin spice, and because taste and smell are closely related, our brain associates it with a pleasant, comforting memory.
Halloween is just around the corner. Children usually dress up in spooky, occasionally terrifying costumes for this holiday and ask for sweets.
Here are a couple of CBD-infused pumpkin spice recipes to enjoy while home giving out sweets to the kids.
Kick everyone’s favorite fall beverage up a notch with a CBD punch.
CBD-Infused Pumpkin Spice Latte
Start to finish: 15 minutes
Yield: 2 servings
Approximate dosage: 16mg per serving
Ingredients
- Two tablespoons of canned pumpkin
- ½ teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- Freshly ground black pepper
- One dropperful of 1000mg ReThink CBD oil
- One tablespoon of maple syrup or sweetener of choice
- Two tablespoons of pure vanilla extract
- Two cups of oat milk or plant-based milk of your choice
- ½ cup of coffee, brewed at double strength
Directions
- Heat the pumpkin and spices in a small saucepan over medium heat. Stir constantly with a wooden spoon and add black pepper.
Let it cook for two minutes or until hot. - Whisk in the milk and vanilla extract and let warm over medium heat and watch the pot to ensure the mixture does not boil over.
- Remove from heat. Add CBD oil and sweetener immediately and stir thoroughly until the mixture has warmed and integrated.
- Add milk mixture to a blender and blend until frothy.
- Brew coffee at double strength, then add the frothed milk. Add pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon, and nutmeg to taste, and top with whipped cream if desired.
A recent autumn trend is chewy pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, but in my opinion, a little CBD makes them even better. These are my favorite since they resemble the sort that Grandma made!
They are soft, cake-like cookies that melt on your tongue. Creating them is easy, and they have a unique, fantastic flavor.
Infused Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- One cup whole wheat flour
- ½ cup sugar or sweetener of choice
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- One pinch of salt
- ¾ teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon allspice
- ½ cup pumpkin purée
- ¼ cup unsweetened applesauce
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 25 drops of 1000mg ReThink CBD oil
- Three tablespoons milk or dark chocolate chips
- Three tablespoons fiber bran cereal (for pumpkin stems)
Preparations
- Preheat the oven to 350°, and line two baking trays with parchment paper.
- Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, baking soda, and allspice in a large bowl. In a small bowl, stir together the pumpkin, applesauce, vanilla, and CBD oil.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the center of the dry ingredients and stir until incorporated. Instead of making jack-o-lantern faces, you can mix the chocolate chips into the dough.
- Form dough into 1½ tablespoon-sized circles and place on prepared pans. Press two chocolate chips into the dough for the eyes and four for the smile to create jack-o-lantern faces.
- Bake at 350° for 12 to 14 minutes.
- Stick cereal into the tops of cookies after cooling on the pan for 3 minutes, then place on a wire rack to cool completely.
Now kick back, relax with your CBD-infused pumpkin spice latte and cookies and wait for the little ghouls, goblins, and superheroes to come knocking and ask you that age-old question: Trick or Treat?
