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Cooking with cannabis is a fat substitution — you swap butter for cannabutter and the rest is ordinary cooking. So every recipe here stores the fat it needs and the dose it targets, and works out the split once it knows how strong your oil is.

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17 recipes matching “vanilla

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Soft vanilla caramels

Chewy caramels cut from a slab and wrapped in wax paper. The finishing temperature decides everything: 245 °F gives a piece that holds its shape on the counter and still gives under a bite.

Contains vanilla extract

Written for

5 mgper caramel

36 caramels · 55 min

DessertStandardNo cook

Vanilla ice cream

Custard base, which means egg yolks, and the yolks are what make an infused fat workable here at all. Their lecithin breaks the fat into droplets small enough to freeze smooth instead of in waxy specks.

Contains vanilla bean

Written for

5 mgper scoop

12 scoops · 40 min

DessertStrong

Blondies

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 vanilla extract

Written for

10 mgper square

16 squares · 43 min

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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.

Contains vanilla extract

Written for

5 mgper cookie

24 cookies · 31 min

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Brown sugar shortbread

The classic one-two-three ratio: one part sugar, two parts butter, three parts flour. Almost half of it is butter, which makes it one of the most efficient carriers on the site.

Contains vanilla extract

Written for

5 mgper finger

16 fingers · 50 min

DessertStandardNo cookNo smell

Buckeyes

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 vanilla extract

Written for

5 mgper buckeye

36 buckeyes · 30 min

DessertStrong

Caramel apples

A dipping caramel cooked to 245 °F and then allowed to fall to about 200 °F before the butter goes in — which happens to be the same temperature at which caramel coats an apple instead of sliding off it.

Contains vanilla extract

Written for

10 mgper apple

8 apples · 50 min

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Carrot cake cupcakes

Cupcakes solve the portioning problem a layer cake creates, and putting the infusion in the cream cheese frosting solves the heat problem — frosting is never cooked, so nothing is lost on the way.

Contains vanilla extract

Written for

5 mgper cupcake

12 cupcakes · 55 min

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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.

Contains vanilla extract

Written for

5 mgper square

16 squares · 40 min

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New York cheesecake

Water bath, low oven and a slow cool-down are the three things standing between you and a cracked top. The infusion sits in the graham crust, where it spreads flat and portions with the slice.

Contains vanilla extract

Written for

5 mgper slice

12 slices · 120 min

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Oatmeal raisin cookies

Old-fashioned rolled oats hold their shape and give the cookie its chew; quick oats dissolve into the dough and leave it cakey. Plumping the raisins first stops them pulling moisture out of the crumb.

Contains vanilla extract

Written for

5 mgper cookie

24 cookies · 32 min

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Peanut butter cookies

Four ingredients plus flour, and the fork marks are structural rather than decorative — the dough barely spreads, so the thickness you press is the thickness you bake. Roasted peanut covers an infusion better than almost anything.

Contains vanilla extract

Written for

5 mgper cookie

24 cookies · 26 min

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Pecan caramel turtles

Clusters of toasted pecans under a spoonful of caramel and a cap of chocolate. Caramel taken to 245 °F stays where you put it instead of creeping out from under the chocolate a day later.

Contains vanilla extract

Written for

5 mgper turtle

24 turtles · 50 min

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Pecan pie

Corn syrup holds the sugar in solution so the filling sets clear and chewy instead of grainy. Cooling the sugar mixture before the eggs and butter go in is not optional — hot syrup scrambles egg on contact.

Contains vanilla extract

Written for

5 mgper slice

8 slices · 80 min

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Pecan pralines

New Orleans pralines set by beating rather than by chilling. Cook to 236 °F, let the pot fall, then beat until the surface goes dull — early and they never set, late and they seize in the pan.

Contains vanilla extract

Written for

5 mgper praline

24 pralines · 35 min

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S'mores bars

Graham cookie base, a layer of chocolate, marshmallows browned under the broiler. The broiler is the only real risk in the recipe — marshmallow goes from toasted to black in about fifteen seconds.

Contains vanilla extract

Written for

5 mgper bar

16 bars · 45 min

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Snickerdoodles

Cream of tartar is what separates a snickerdoodle from a cinnamon sugar cookie. It gives the tang, reacts with the baking soda for lift, and keeps the sugar from setting up grainy as the cookie cools.

Contains vanilla extract

Written for

5 mgper cookie

30 cookies · 30 min