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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.

9 recipes

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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.

Written for

10 mgper apple

8 apples · 50 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

DessertStandardNo smell

English toffee

Butter and sugar cooked to 300 °F over almonds, then a chocolate layer spread across the cooled slab. The chocolate is where the dose lives, because nothing infused belongs in a syrup that hot.

Written for

5 mgper piece

24 pieces · 40 min

SnackMicrodoseNo smell

Honeycomb candy

Baking soda whisked into 300 °F syrup foams it into a brittle sponge in about four seconds. Nothing infused can ride in a syrup that hot, so the dose goes into a chocolate layer over the cooled slab.

Written for

2.5 mgper piece

24 pieces · 25 min

SnackMicrodoseNo smell

Peanut brittle

Hard-crack brittle taken to 300 °F, with a thin chocolate layer spread across the back of the cooled slab. The chocolate carries the dose, because nothing infused survives a syrup that hot.

Written for

2.5 mgper piece

32 pieces · 40 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.

Written for

5 mgper turtle

24 turtles · 50 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.

Written for

5 mgper praline

24 pralines · 35 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

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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.

Written for

5 mgper marshmallow

24 marshmallows · 40 min