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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.

Set your infusion strength

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

14 recipes

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

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.

Written for

5 mgper buckeye

36 buckeyes · 30 min

SnackMicrodoseNo cookNo smell

Chocolate covered pretzels

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.

Written for

2.5 mgper pretzel

30 pretzels · 25 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

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

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

SideStandardNo smell

Mexican street corn

Charred corn rolled in a mayonnaise and crema coating, then cotija and chili. The infusion lives in the coating and never goes near the fire, which keeps the whole thing simple and predictable.

Written for

5 mgper ear

6 ears · 27 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

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

DessertStandard

Seven layer bars

Sweetened condensed milk is glue and sweetener at once, caramelizing as it bakes and binding the layers into a slab. Everything above the crust is topping, which keeps the dose in the one layer you can measure.

Written for

5 mgper bar

24 bars · 43 min

AppetizerLow

Spinach artichoke dip

A hot, savory dip for a table where nobody wants dessert. The infused oil is folded in before it goes to the oven and the bake is short and gentle.

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

8 servings · 37 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

AppetizerLowNo cookNo smell

Whipped feta dip

Salty, thick and ready in five minutes. The oil goes in last and gets whipped right through, which is what keeps the dose even across a shared bowl.

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

6 servings · 10 min