Every cannabis baked goods recipe comes down to three moves: decarb the flower, infuse a fat, and figure out your dose before the batter hits the pan. Skip any one of those and you end up with a weak batch or one that puts your friends on the couch for six hours. The recipes themselves are ordinary. Brownies, cookies, banana bread, and shortbread all work fine. What matters is what goes into them.
Decarboxylate first
Raw flower holds THCA, which will not get you high. Heat converts it to THC. Spread ground flower in a thin layer on a sheet pan and bake at 240°F for 30 to 40 minutes, stirring once at the halfway mark. You will smell it. That smell is the conversion happening. Push the temp higher and you lose THC to vapor. Pull it early and you leave potency on the table.
Infuse a fat that suits the bake
Butter is the classic for brownies and cookies, but it starts to scorch around 350°F. Clarified butter or coconut oil handles a hot oven better. A reasonable home starting point is 1 cup of fat to 7 grams of decarbed flower. Simmer at 160°F to 180°F for two to three hours, or use a slow cooker on low for three to four. Strain through cheesecloth. Do not wring it out hard, since that pulls chlorophyll and plant matter and leaves a bitter, grassy taste.
Do the math before you bake
Home infusions vary, so treat any number as an estimate. Rough formula: grams of flower × 1000 × THC percentage × 0.85, then divide by servings. Seven grams at 20 percent THC gives about 1,190 mg total. Cut into 24 brownies, that is roughly 50 mg per piece. Most legal states cap a single serving at 10 mg. Either use less flower or cut smaller squares. Label the pan. You will forget.
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Recipes that hold up
- Brownies: fudgy, fat-heavy, and forgiving. The best carrier for cannabutter.
- Chocolate chip cookies: chill the dough first so it does not spread thin and burn at the edges.
- Banana bread: moist enough to mask the herbal note.
- Shortbread: high butter ratio, low bake temp, easy to cut into even portions.
- Rice cereal treats: no oven at all, so nothing degrades in the heat.
What ruins a batch
Overmixing the flour, baking above 350°F, and guessing at potency. Also this one: eating a piece, feeling nothing after 20 minutes, and eating another. Edibles take 30 to 120 minutes to peak. Give it two hours before you decide anything.
Storage and safety
Write the date and estimated mg per piece on the container. Refrigerate for up to a week or freeze for three months. Keep it away from kids and pets, and never in a bag or tin that looks like a regular snack. That is a legal problem in most states and a real safety problem everywhere.