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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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Tell the site how strong your butter or oil is and every recipe rewrites its ingredient amounts to match.

33 recipes

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AppetizerLowNo cookNo smell

Avocado lime guacamole

Guacamole loosened with infused olive oil instead of being mashed dry. No heat, no smell, ready in ten minutes.

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

6 servings · 10 min

SauceLowNo cookNo smell

Basil pesto

Made in a food processor, no heat at all. Keeps a week in the fridge and doses pasta, eggs or bread by the spoonful.

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

8 servings · 10 min

DessertStandard

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.

Written for

5 mgper cookie

24 cookies · 31 min

SideLow

Brown butter mashed potatoes

A side dish carrying a modest dose, for a table where not everyone wants dessert. The butter goes in off the heat.

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

6 servings · 35 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.

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5 mgper finger

16 fingers · 50 min

BreakfastStandard

Buttermilk pancakes

Three of the sources we surveyed carry a pancake recipe and none of them mention the problem: a griddle runs far hotter than an infusion survives. The butter goes on top, not in the pan.

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5 mgper pancake

8 pancakes · 25 min

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Chocolate chip muffins

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.

Written for

5 mgper muffin

12 muffins · 35 min

SnackStandardNo cook

Chocolate fudge

Two ingredients plus the infusion, no candy thermometer, no oven. The most forgiving way to make something strong and cut it small.

Written for

5 mgper piece

32 pieces · 10 min

DessertStandard

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.

Written for

5 mgper square

20 squares · 42 min

BreakfastStandard

Cinnamon french toast

Thick-cut bread in a cinnamon custard, with the infused butter worked into a topping rather than cooked into the pan. The skillet gets plain butter; the dose goes on afterward.

Written for

5 mgper slice

4 slices · 25 min

SnackStandard

Crispy rice cereal treats

No oven and about ten minutes of work. The marshmallow goes on the heat, the infusion goes in after, and the whole thing lives or dies on how evenly you press the pan.

Written for

5 mgper square

16 squares · 15 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.

Written for

5 mgper square

16 squares · 40 min

SideLow

Garlic butter green beans

Blanched until they still snap, then tossed in infused butter off the heat. A side dish that carries a light dose for a table where not everyone wants a brownie.

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

6 servings · 15 min

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Garlic herb butter pasta

A ten-minute emulsified butter sauce built in the pan with pasta water. Dinner that happens to be dosed, rather than a dessert pretending to be dinner.

Written for

5 mgper plate

4 plates · 17 min

DrinkStandardNo smell

Golden milk

Warm spiced milk with turmeric and black pepper. Made in one pan in five minutes, with nothing hot enough to hurt the infusion.

Written for

5 mgper mug

2 mugs · 8 min

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Herb butter salmon

Roasted salmon finished with a compound butter that melts over the top. The butter never sees the oven, which makes this one of the most potency-efficient ways to dose a dinner.

Written for

5 mgper fillet

4 fillets · 22 min

SnackLow

Honey glazed spiced nuts

Roasted first, glazed with infused honey after they cool. Infused honey is less efficient than fat, so this leans on the glaze going on cold rather than being baked.

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

12 servings · 35 min

SauceLowNo cookNo smell

Lemon garlic vinaigrette

A three-to-one vinaigrette that doses a salad by the spoonful. Keeps a week in the fridge and lets everyone at the table pour their own.

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

8 servings · 5 min

BreakfastLow

Maple pecan granola

A low, slow granola that bakes gently enough not to punish the infusion. Makes a jar that lasts a fortnight and doses itself by the spoon.

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

12 servings · 50 min

SauceStandard

Marinara sauce

A long-simmered tomato sauce with the oil stirred in at the very end. Freeze it in portions and it doses pasta, eggs or pizza for a month.

Written for

5 mgper serving

8 servings · 55 min

DrinkStandardNo smell

Masala chai

Spices simmered in water, milk added after, infused fat whisked in off the heat. Nothing in it ever boils once the dose is in.

Written for

5 mgper mug

2 mugs · 17 min

SnackLow

Movie night popcorn

Popped in plain oil, dressed in infused oil afterward. Popping temperatures are far too hot for an infusion, which is why almost every recipe that pops in cannabutter wastes most of it.

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

6 servings · 10 min

DrinkStandardNo smell

Mulled apple cider

Spiced cider warmed on the stove, with the infusion whisked in off the heat. A pot that serves a group, portioned into mugs rather than ladled freely.

Written for

5 mgper mug

6 mugs · 30 min

DessertStandardNo cookNo smell

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.

Written for

5 mgper cup

12 cups · 20 min