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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.

22 recipes

DessertStandard

Apple crisp

Oat streusel over apples firm enough to hold their shape — Granny Smith or Braeburn, not a soft eating apple that collapses into sauce. Baked in ramekins, which takes the guesswork out of serving it.

Written for

5 mgper ramekin

8 ramekins · 60 min

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

AppetizerLowNo cookNo smell

Classic hummus

Canned chickpeas, tahini and ice water blended pale and light. Nothing is heated at any stage, which makes it one of the gentlest carriers on this site, and a scoop is easy to measure.

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

16 servings · 20 min

SnackStandardNo cookNo smell

Coconut haystacks

Mounds of toasted coconut bound in dark chocolate, set on a tray. Toasting the coconut first is not about color — untoasted shreds hold moisture, and moisture is what turns melted chocolate to sludge.

Written for

5 mgper haystack

24 haystacks · 28 min

SnackMicrodoseNo cookNo smell

Dark chocolate sea salt bark

Two ingredients and one technique. Tempering is what gives bark its shine and its break, and the seed method gets you there with a bowl and a thermometer instead of a marble slab.

Written for

2.5 mgper piece

32 pieces · 15 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

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 cook

No-bake chocolate oat cookies

Boiled sugar, cocoa and oats dropped onto wax paper, and the only real variable is the boil. Sixty seconds at a full rolling boil sets them; thirty leaves puddles and ninety turns them dry and crumbly.

Written for

5 mgper cookie

24 cookies · 25 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

BreakfastLowNo cookNo smell

Overnight oats

Assembled in a jar the night before, eaten cold. No heat anywhere in the process, which makes it the gentlest thing on the site for an infusion.

Written for

2.5 mgper jar

2 jars · 5 min

DessertStandardNo cookNo smell

Peppermint patties

An uncooked fondant of confectioners' sugar and coconut oil, chilled hard and dipped in dark chocolate. Firm centers are the whole game — a soft patty smears in the bowl and comes out a lumpy puddle.

Written for

5 mgper patty

30 patties · 30 min

DessertStandardNo cookNo smell

Rocky road

Chocolate, marshmallows and nuts set in a pan and cut into squares. The marshmallows go in after the chocolate has dropped to barely warm, or they melt and the whole pan turns into fudge.

Written for

5 mgper square

24 squares · 20 min

SnackLowNo cookNo smell

Salted honey oat bites

No oven, no smell, five minutes of work. The easiest thing on this site to make and the easiest to dose evenly, because nothing bakes unevenly.

Written for

2.5 mgper bite

16 bites · 10 min

DrinkMicrodoseNo cookNo smell

Strawberry lemonade

Cold acidic water has nothing in it to hold oil, so infused fat beads up and rides on top. Infused sugar dissolves into the lemon juice instead and carries the dose in solution.

Written for

2.5 mgper glass

6 glasses · 20 min

SideLow

Sweet potato fries

Roasted hot in plain oil, tossed in infused oil after. Roasting temperature is about twice what an infusion tolerates, so the dose goes on at the end.

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

4 servings · 40 min

SauceLowNo cookNo smell

Thai peanut sauce

Peanut butter let down with tamari, lime and warm water until it pours off a spoon. Built cold, kept cold, and measured out a tablespoon at a time over noodles, satay or a rice bowl.

Written for

2.5 mgper tablespoon

16 tablespoons · 10 min