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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.

39 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

DessertStandard

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.

Written for

5 mgper cookie

24 cookies · 31 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

DessertStandard

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.

Written for

5 mgper finger

16 fingers · 50 min

BreakfastStandard

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

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

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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

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

BreakfastStandard

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.

Written for

5 mgper muffin

12 muffins · 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

DessertStandard

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

BreakfastStandard

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

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

DessertStandard

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.

Written for

5 mgper square

16 squares · 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

MainStandard

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.

Written for

5 mgper plate

4 plates · 17 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

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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.

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

DessertStandard

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

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

BreakfastLow

Maple pecan granola

A low, slow granola that bakes gently enough not to punish the infusion. Makes a jar that lasts a fortnight and doses itself by the spoon.

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

12 servings · 50 min