Lazy Kief Infused Brownies
by Rachel Hantula, customer experience director
📸 by Kim Bevington, assistant creative director
We’re very excited to share with you our smash hit, super easy to make recipe among friends, family and fellow cananbis enthusiasts alike here with you all!
What makes it easy?! It is that we are going to be a bit lazy 😉
We’ll explain this in further detail below our delightfully fun, simple, stoner-proof recipe curated for stoners by stoners!
For this recipe, you will need a few simple ingredients:
1 gram of kief,
1 boxed brownie mix,
Whatever other ingredients are listed on your brownie mix packaging, ours calls for eggs, water and oil
Instructions:
Preheat oven according to whatever brownie mix you have chosen instructs
To make sure the kief is properly infused throughout the brownie mix, it is important to mix the dry ingredients first.
Grab a bowl, empty the contents of the boxed mix in, and sprinkle the kief evenly throughout the top of the mix.
Then, take a spoon and stir rapidly for a minute or so to make sure the kief is evenly distributed throughout the mix.
Next, Mix Your Wet Ingredients Into The Dry
Mix in the oil, water and egg until the batter looks fully mixed.
Meanwhile, lightly grease your brownie pan, and add the batter.
Once the oven is preheated, pop it in, and set a timer for however long your specific chosen brownie mix dictates. Most receipes for brownies list 40-55 minute bake times.
Once the timer goes off, check to make sure the edges of the brownies have separated from the pan.
How Much THC Is In Each Kief Brownie?
The answer to this question is actually a bit more complicated than one might originally assume! I am so glad you asked 😄
Let’s say the kief we used in this recipe (made by American Hash Makers) lists its THCa potency as 50% (50mg) and say 2% THC (2mg), we typically would be able to calculate the estimated THCa (non intoxicating alone) that converts to fully activated THC (intoxicating) using this equation:
THC = [(THCa concentration x 0.877) + THC concentration]
So for our above example,
THC% = (50mg THCa) x 0.877 + 2mg THC
THC = 45.85 mg THC
This is in a perfect world, which this recipe is not, for we are choosing to be lazy stoners!
Since we are not activating our kief prior to incorporating it into the brownie mix, the THCa will not activate at the same rate one might expect based off the above equation, it is likely much lower, but this actually makes for an incredibly rich, intensely relieving therapeutic, and blissful experience.
This is due to the entourage effect, which harnesses the power of all the molecules present in live cannabis flower (including THCa)!
All these molecules (cannabinoids, terpenes, flavonoids) work together to create the overall experience, including nice balanced ratios of one cannabinoid to another (like THca and THC or THC and CBD etc)
It’s hard to estimate at what rate the THCa will convert during the baking process, THCa typically starts to decarboxylate at around 220 degrees. Throwing brownies with kief in the oven for almost an hour is likely to activate a fair amount!
We have shared this recipe with friends and family alike and it can provide an incredibly fun and stoney experience, even when the THCa in the kief has not completely activated. Give it a try for yourself!
BUT WAIT?!
Are you a perfectionist?
A completionist?
or perhaps someone who just wants that straight to the dome, THC rich experience?!?!
We can provide you with the easy steps to get you there as well with infused kief brownies. To get a more pure THC, less full spectrum experience, simply decarb your kief FIRST before introducing it to your brownie recipe!
How to Decarb Kief:
Preheat oven to 245-250 degrees
Get a baking dish and line with foil
Spread kief evenly over baking sheet/dish
Cover top of baking dish with foil
Once preheated, bake kief for around 20 minutes.
TA DA!
Activated kief!!! Simply combine this activated kief with the dry ingredients listed in the first step of this recipe.
Important note: any baked goods besides brownies will likely need kief to be activated prior to introducing it to a recipe. Brownies have a longer bake time than say a cookie and will more thoroughly complete the THCa activation process.