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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.

11 recipes

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Blueberry scones

Cold butter, a light hand and two folds are what separate a flaky scone from a sweet biscuit. Infused butter straight from the refrigerator behaves like any other cold butter here.

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5 mgper scone

8 scones · 40 min

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Caramel corn

Baked low to set the caramel, then finished with infused butter off the heat. Most versions stir the infusion into boiling caramel and then bake it for 45 minutes, which throws away a good share of what you made.

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5 mgper serving

10 servings · 65 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.

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5 mgper cupcake

12 cupcakes · 55 min

DessertStandardNo cookNo smell

Chocolate truffles

Ganache is an emulsion of cream into chocolate, and it breaks for the same reasons mayonnaise does. Warm cream, finely chopped chocolate and stirring from the center out are what keep it together.

Written for

5 mgper truffle

36 truffles · 35 min

DessertStandardNo smell

Gummies

The iconic edible, and the one people most often get wrong. Gummies separate because fat and gelatin do not mix — the fix is an emulsifier and constant stirring, not more heat.

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5 mgper gummie

24 gummies · 35 min

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Lemon bars

Shortbread base carrying the dose, sharp lemon curd on top. The infusion lives in the crust, which bakes gently, rather than in a custard that sets at a higher temperature.

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5 mgper bar

16 bars · 65 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.

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5 mgper turtle

24 turtles · 50 min

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Pumpkin pie

Custard pie, which means eggs set it and eggs will crack it if it goes past done. Pull it while the middle still wobbles and let carryover finish the job on the counter.

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5 mgper slice

8 slices · 85 min

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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.

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.

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5 mgper scoop

12 scoops · 40 min

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Vanilla marshmallows

Gelatin whipped with hot sugar syrup, cut into squares and dusted. Marshmallow takes no fat at all, so the dose rides in sugar dissolved into the cold bloom water, where it never meets direct heat.

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5 mgper marshmallow

24 marshmallows · 40 min