Chocolate sheet cake
A thin sheet cake cut into a grid, which makes it the easiest cake to dose accurately. The frosting carries the infusion so none of it goes through the oven.
Set your infusion strength
Tell the site how strong your butter or oil is and every recipe rewrites its ingredient amounts to match.
Ingredients
½ cup infused butter
Set your infusion strength above and this splits into infused and plain butter to hit whatever dose you want.
- 3 cupspowdered sugar
- ⅓ cupunsweetened cocoa powder
- 4 tbspwhole milk
- 2 cupsall-purpose flour
- 2 cupsgranulated sugar
- ¾ cupunsweetened cocoa powder
- 2large eggs
- 1 cupbuttermilk
- ½ cupneutral oil
- 1 cuphot coffee
- 2 tspbaking soda
- 1 tspfine salt
Method
- 01
Heat the oven to 350 °F and grease a 9x13 pan.
350 °F
- 02
Whisk all the cake dry ingredients together, then beat in the eggs, buttermilk and plain oil until smooth.
- 03
Stir in the hot coffee last. The batter will look alarmingly thin — that is correct and it is what makes the crumb tender.
- 04
Bake until the center springs back.
350 °F · 22 min
- 05
Cool completely. The frosting carries the dose and it must not go onto a warm cake — melting it would run the infusion to the edges.
- 06
Beat the infused butter with the powdered sugar, cocoa and milk until smooth and spreadable. Add milk a teaspoon at a time if it is stiff.
- 07
Spread evenly right to the corners. Even frosting is the whole dosing story here, since the cake underneath carries nothing.
- 08
Mark a 4x5 grid before you cut, then cut 20 even squares.
Built on
Standard oil-based chocolate cake: 2 cups flour, 2 cups sugar, ¾ cup cocoa, 2 eggs, 1 cup buttermilk, 1 cup hot coffee, baked thin.
Every recipe here names the conventional ratio underneath it. The cannabis part is a fat substitution, not new chemistry — so if the base is sound and the substitution is sound, the recipe is sound.
As written
5 mg / square
1 mg5 mg25 mg
Set your infusion strength to move the dose.
Before you eat it
- These are estimates, not lab results. Treat the low end as the honest number and the high end as the thing to plan around.
- Start with one serving and wait two hours. Edibles take 30 to 120 minutes to come on, and the most common mistake is redosing before the first one lands.
- Test a small piece first. Potency is rarely even across a batch, especially if the infusion was not mixed thoroughly.
- Label anything you store with the date and the estimated dose, and keep it away from children, pets and anyone who did not ask for it.
- If you overdo it: you are not in danger, but it will be unpleasant. Find somewhere quiet, drink water, and wait it out. Do not drive.
More dessert
Brown butter chocolate chip cookies
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.
24 cookies
Fudgy one-bowl brownies
A high-fat, low-flour brownie that bakes dense rather than cakey. The cocoa does most of the work of hiding the infusion.
16 squares
No-bake peanut butter cups
Two layers, a muffin pan and a freezer. No oven, no smell, and the dose lives in the filling where you can measure it exactly.
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