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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.

24 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

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

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

SnackStandard

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.

Written for

5 mgper serving

10 servings · 65 min

SauceLow

Chili crisp

A spoonable chili oil for eggs, noodles and rice. Made once, it doses a dozen meals a teaspoon at a time.

Written for

2.5 mgper teaspoon

24 teaspoons · 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

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

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

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.

Written for

5 mgper gummie

24 gummies · 35 min

MainStandard

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

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

MainStandard

Mushroom risotto

The butter goes in at the end, off the heat, beaten hard into the rice. That final step is a technique risotto has always used, and it happens to be ideal for an infusion.

Written for

5 mgper serving

4 servings · 50 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

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

MainStandard

Shakshuka

Eggs poached in a spiced tomato sauce. The infused oil is stirred in off the heat at the end rather than used to build the sofrito, which is the difference between keeping your dose and simmering it away.

Written for

5 mgper serving

4 servings · 40 min

DrinkStandardNo smell

Spiced hot chocolate

Proper hot chocolate made with real chocolate rather than powder, which gives the fat somewhere to hide and keeps the dose suspended.

Written for

5 mgper mug

2 mugs · 10 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

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

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