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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.

34 recipes

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Apple crisp

Oat streusel over apples firm enough to hold their shape — Granny Smith or Braeburn, not a soft eating apple that collapses into sauce. Baked in ramekins, which takes the guesswork out of serving it.

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5 mgper ramekin

8 ramekins · 60 min

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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.

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5 mgper muffin

12 muffins · 35 min

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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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Brown butter chocolate chip cookies

The standard creamed-butter drop cookie, with the butter browned first. Browning drives off water and deepens the flavor enough to cover any grassiness in the infusion.

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5 mgper cookie

24 cookies · 31 min

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Brown sugar shortbread

The classic one-two-three ratio: one part sugar, two parts butter, three parts flour. Almost half of it is butter, which makes it one of the most efficient carriers on the site.

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5 mgper finger

16 fingers · 50 min

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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.

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5 mgper buckeye

36 buckeyes · 30 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

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Chocolate chip muffins

An oil-based muffin, which makes it one-bowl and forgiving. Portioned into a pan with twelve equal wells, which is the easiest even dosing you can get from a baked good.

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5 mgper muffin

12 muffins · 35 min

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Chocolate fudge

Two ingredients plus the infusion, no candy thermometer, no oven. The most forgiving way to make something strong and cut it small.

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5 mgper piece

32 pieces · 10 min

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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.

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5 mgper truffle

36 truffles · 35 min

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Cinnamon rolls

Soft enriched rolls where the infusion lives in the cinnamon filling instead of the dough. The filling is shielded by the dough around it, and rolling a spiral spreads it across every roll evenly.

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5 mgper roll

12 rolls · 73 min

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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.

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5 mgper haystack

24 haystacks · 28 min

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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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Lemon pound cake

Olive oil in place of butter gives a loaf that stays moist for the better part of a week and a faint bitterness that sits well against lemon. Zest carries the flavor — the aromatic oils are all in the peel.

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5 mgper slice

12 slices · 75 min

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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

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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.

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5 mgper mug

2 mugs · 17 min

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Mexican street corn

Charred corn rolled in a mayonnaise and crema coating, then cotija and chili. The infusion lives in the coating and never goes near the fire, which keeps the whole thing simple and predictable.

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5 mgper ear

6 ears · 27 min

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New York cheesecake

Water bath, low oven and a slow cool-down are the three things standing between you and a cracked top. The infusion sits in the graham crust, where it spreads flat and portions with the slice.

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5 mgper slice

12 slices · 120 min

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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.

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5 mgper cookie

24 cookies · 25 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.

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5 mgper cup

12 cups · 20 min

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Oatmeal raisin cookies

Old-fashioned rolled oats hold their shape and give the cookie its chew; quick oats dissolve into the dough and leave it cakey. Plumping the raisins first stops them pulling moisture out of the crumb.

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5 mgper cookie

24 cookies · 32 min

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Olive oil banana bread

An oil-based loaf rather than a creamed-butter one, which makes it forgiving, one-bowl, and easy to slice into even portions.

Written for

5 mgper slice

10 slices · 70 min