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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.

24 recipes

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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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Buttermilk pancakes

Three of the sources we surveyed carry a pancake recipe and none of them mention the problem: a griddle runs far hotter than an infusion survives. The butter goes on top, not in the pan.

Written for

5 mgper pancake

8 pancakes · 25 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.

Written for

5 mgper serving

10 servings · 65 min

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Chicken parmesan

A full dinner rather than a dessert. The chicken is fried and baked at temperatures no infusion survives, so the dose rides in the sauce that goes on top.

Written for

5 mgper serving

4 servings · 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.

Written for

5 mgper piece

32 pieces · 10 min

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Chocolate sheet cake

A thin sheet cake cut into a grid, which makes it the easiest cake to dose accurately. The frosting carries the infusion so none of it goes through the oven.

Written for

5 mgper square

20 squares · 42 min

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Cinnamon french toast

Thick-cut bread in a cinnamon custard, with the infused butter worked into a topping rather than cooked into the pan. The skillet gets plain butter; the dose goes on afterward.

Written for

5 mgper slice

4 slices · 25 min

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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

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Fudgy one-bowl brownies

A high-fat, low-flour brownie that bakes dense rather than cakey. The cocoa does most of the work of hiding the infusion.

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5 mgper square

16 squares · 40 min

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Garlic herb butter pasta

A ten-minute emulsified butter sauce built in the pan with pasta water. Dinner that happens to be dosed, rather than a dessert pretending to be dinner.

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5 mgper plate

4 plates · 17 min

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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

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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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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.

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5 mgper fillet

4 fillets · 22 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.

Written for

5 mgper bar

16 bars · 65 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.

Written for

5 mgper mug

2 mugs · 17 min

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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.

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5 mgper mug

6 mugs · 30 min

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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