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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.

26 recipes

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BreakfastStandard

Banana nut muffins

Muffin-method batter mixed by hand in one bowl, with bananas dark enough that the skins are mostly black. A high opening oven temperature is what gives the tops their dome.

Written for

5 mgper muffin

12 muffins · 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

DessertStandardNo cook

No-bake chocolate oat cookies

Boiled sugar, cocoa and oats dropped onto wax paper, and the only real variable is the boil. Sixty seconds at a full rolling boil sets them; thirty leaves puddles and ninety turns them dry and crumbly.

Written for

5 mgper cookie

24 cookies · 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

DessertStandard

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

DessertStandard

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

DessertStandardNo cookNo smell

Peppermint patties

An uncooked fondant of confectioners' sugar and coconut oil, chilled hard and dipped in dark chocolate. Firm centers are the whole game — a soft patty smears in the bowl and comes out a lumpy puddle.

Written for

5 mgper patty

30 patties · 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

S'mores bars

Graham cookie base, a layer of chocolate, marshmallows browned under the broiler. The broiler is the only real risk in the recipe — marshmallow goes from toasted to black in about fifteen seconds.

Written for

5 mgper bar

16 bars · 45 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

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

DessertStandard

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