Sweet orange and fresh grapefruit.
Citrus that actually survives an oven, which limonene does not. If you want an orange note to still be there after baking, this is the profile that delivers it — orange and dark chocolate, or a citrus-glazed duck.
In the kitchen
Cooks through
The heaviest aromatics in cannabis, and the ones that behave like ordinary kitchen spices — black pepper and cloves carry the same compounds and neither is ruined by an oven. What you smell in the jar is close to what you taste in the finished thing, which cuts both ways: it is why the grassiness people complain about is usually this half of the profile.
The same compound is in valencia orange, grapefruit and tangerine — which is the short version of why these pairings work. You are not matching a flavor to the cannabis, you are adding more of something the flower already tastes of.
Brown sugar and vanilla carry the whole bar, with no cocoa to hide behind. That means the butter you use should be butter you would happily eat on toast, because the flavor is right out in the open.
Contains white chocolate chips or chopped pecans
Written for
10 mgper square
16 squares · 43 min
The standard creamed-butter drop cookie, with the butter browned first. Browning drives off water and deepens the flavor enough to cover any grassiness in the infusion.
Contains dark chocolate chips
Written for
5 mgper cookie
24 cookies · 31 min
Peanut butter fudge rolled into balls and dipped so a bare circle shows on top, the way the nut does. Cold, firm centers are what keep the filling out of the chocolate bowl.
Contains semisweet chocolate
Written for
5 mgper buckeye
36 buckeyes · 30 min
An oil-based muffin, which makes it one-bowl and forgiving. Portioned into a pan with twelve equal wells, which is the easiest even dosing you can get from a baked good.
Contains chocolate chips
Written for
5 mgper muffin
12 muffins · 35 min
Salted pretzel rods dipped and set on parchment. Coverage is the whole job here, because the pretzel underneath is plain and the chocolate is the only part carrying anything.
Contains semisweet chocolate
Written for
2.5 mgper pretzel
30 pretzels · 25 min
Two ingredients plus the infusion, no candy thermometer, no oven. The most forgiving way to make something strong and cut it small.
Contains semisweet chocolate chips
Written for
5 mgper piece
32 pieces · 10 min
From StrainTrackr. Each of these breeders named valencene on their own product page — a claim about their cultivar, not a lab result. Most strains have no terpenes published at all, so this is a sample of what is documented rather than a ranking of what is strongest.
The other 24
