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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.

48 recipes

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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

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

SauceLowNo cookNo smell

Buttermilk ranch dressing

Mayonnaise, buttermilk and soft herbs whisked into a pourable dressing. Because it is spooned onto an individual plate, each person decides their own serving, which is the most forgiving arrangement there is.

Written for

2.5 mgper tablespoon

24 tablespoons · 10 min

DessertStrong

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

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

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

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

MainStandard

Creamy tomato soup

Canned tomatoes cooked down with onion and garlic, blended smooth, then finished with cream and a slug of olive oil once the pot is off the burner. Ladling measured bowls is what keeps the servings honest.

Written for

5 mgper bowl

6 bowls · 55 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

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

SnackMicrodoseNo cook

Gumdrop nougat candy

Marshmallows and white chocolate melted together in the microwave, gumdrops folded through, set cold and cut into cubes. No thermometer, no oven, and the dose rides in two tablespoons of butter stirred into the whole slab.

Written for

2.5 mgper piece

24 pieces · 10 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

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

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