How To Use Cannabutter To Make Brownies (Guide!)

Do you know that weed brownies are more popular than weed cookies in the weed community?

Yes! That’s absolutely right.

Kudos to the person who thought of mixing the weed that gives you the munchies into the gooey chocolate brownies on which you much on.

What can be better than mixing two things which you love most – brownies and weed?

To make the perfect weed brownies, you should have your hands on the best recipe. If you are looking for the ideal weed brownie recipe, you are at the right place.

You won’t only get to know how to use cannabutter to make brownies but will also learn how to make your own cannabutter at home.

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How To Make Cannabutter?

If you are a little confused as to what cannabutter actually is, I am here to help.

Cannabutter is nothing but a type of butter that has infused weed into it. Typically, this activated weed is added to the butter in its molten form.

Though it is very easy to make cannabutter, you have to keep a close eye on every step, dosing, and quantity.

Do not forget to use only premium quality weed to make your cannabutter, which has been brought from a trusted vendor.

Here are all the ingredients you need to make the easiest cannabutter recipe at home.

1 gram of premium-quality cannabis flower
Half a cup of unsalted butter
One-fourth cup of water

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Recipe To Make Cannabutter –

Step 1 :

Preheat your oven to 245 degrees Fahrenheit. With the help of your hands, tear the flower into smaller pieces so that more surface area can be heated; the flowers should separate like broccoli florets.

Step 2 :

Wrap these fragmented flowers in parchment paper.

Wrap this parchment pouch in aluminum foil or place the wrapped-up parchment paper in a silicone bag but make sure it is oven-safe.

Step 3 :

Put these wrapped flowers in a small baking pan and bake for roughly 30 to 25 minutes.

After baking the flowers, let them cool at room temperature after removing the sheet pan from your baking oven.

Step 4:

Before you start creating the cannabutter, crush your cooled flowers with the help of your grinder.

Make sure that crushed flowers have a consistency of ground to a medium-fine and not espresso-like.

Step 5:

Add your heated and crushed weed and half a cup (or as per your recipe) of unsalted butter into a small-sized pan. Also, add one-fourth cup of water to the same pan.

Step 6:

Now, start heating this pan containing weed, butter, and water at low heat.

Heat for about 50 minutes to one hour, and keep an eye on the temperature (it should not exceed 190 degrees Fahrenheit.

Step 7 :

When the temperature of 190 degrees Fahrenheit is reached, take off your pan from the heat.

After the mixture cools down a little, pour it through a strainer into a container (in which you wish to store your cannabutter).

Place this container in the refrigerator with the lid on.

How To Use Cannabutter To Make Brownies? – The recipe!

You must already be craving these brownies after reading about them. So let’s check out this perfect recipe and make your own batch.

The brownies are dosed with 8 to 10 milligrams of THC (the psychoactive ingredient) per brownie when one gram of weed is used into half a cup or one full stick of butter.

For those who have just started eating edibles, it is recommended to start with a dosage of 2 to 5 milligrams per brownie and supplement those brownies with regular butter only.

To make sixteen mouth-watering brownies, you need the following mentioned ingredients.

One-fourth cup of cocoa powder
Half cup of dark chocolate (chopped)
1 and one-fourth cups of granulated sugar
1 tablespoon of molasses
1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
1 /4 teaspoon of kosher salt
2 large-sized eggs
Three-fourth cup of all-purpose flour
Half a cup of nuts (toasted and chopped)

Recipe to make brownies –

Step 1 – Prepare the cannabutter according to the recipe mentioned above.

Step 2 – Dust cocoa powder over your buttered baking dish. Preheat your kitchen oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

Step 3 – Take a bowl and melt your dark chocolate and prepare cannabutter in the microwave in 10-second increments (you can use Bain Marie too).

After the chocolate and cannabutter are melted, and there are no lumps, remove the bowl from the heat. Now add sugar, vanilla extract, salt, and molasses to the bowel.

Step 4 – Now add your eggs to the bowl but make sure you add one at a time and mix well before adding another one.

Beat the mixture for approximately five minutes. Now take your flour and mix it with cocoa powder and then add to the mixture we just prepared.

Remember not to overmix your mixture.

Step 5 – Pour the mixture into your baking pan and place it in the preheated oven. Bake your brownies for approximately 25-30 minutes.

You can check whether or not your brownies are done with the help of a toothpick test. That’s it! Your brownies are done.

How To Find The Dosing Of Weed Per Serving?

You have to do a little work and find out the THC content of your strain before you start baking the brownies.

Most strains often contain 10 percent or more THC on average. While strains with 21 percent or more THC are thought to be exceptionally potent, those with 15-20 percent THC are regarded as above average.

You have to be very careful, as any recipe for cannabis brownies with this high THC level will make you feel ill to the stomach! Remember not to go overboard.

To understand how to calculate dosing per serving of brownies, let’s start by assuming that a particular strain has a 10 percent THC level.

Now let’s find out the THC potency levels using some basic mathematics –

One gram of cannabis flower has 1000 mg of dry weight. So, if a strain has an average THC content of 10 percent, we can divide 1000 mg by 10 percent to get 100 mg.

It is reasonable to estimate that when you are baking brownies at home, one gram of cannabis has at least 100mg of THC, provided the strain has a 10 percent THC concentration.

To calculate the THC dosage per serving, first convert the portion of ground marijuana, say 14 grams, to milligrams of THC (1400mg THC), and then divide that amount by the number of cookies produced by the recipe, say 100.

One hundred brownies divided by 1400 mg yields 14 mg of THC per serving which simply means each brownie has 14 mg of cannabis.

FAQ

Can you substitute cannabutter into any recipe?

As you know, cannabutter is nothing but cannabis-infused butter. So yes, you can substitute cannabutter into any recipe which calls for butter as an ingredient.

What can I substitute for half a cup of oil in brownies?

Maybe you have run out of cooking oil and are in the middle of making brownies, or you are just health-conscious and want a healthy substitute for the oil in your recipe.

Whatever the reason you were searching for a substitute for oil in brownies, you have come to the right place!

You can substitute oil in brownies with the following substituents.

Ghee
Butter
Yogurt
Zucchini
Vegetable shortening
Sour cream
Mayonnaise
Margarine
Applesauce

Final thoughts

It is really easy to make cannabutter at home and canna butter brownies. You do not need any fancy ingredients or machines, and the best part – it really takes very less time.

One word of caution, DO NOT eat them all or even a lot at once! You should proceed cautiously because edibles have the potential to sneak up on you.

Since it takes longer for food to digest and for THC and other cannabinoids to enter your bloodstream than when you smoke or vape them, you should be sensible and take your time while eating your gooey, chocolatey cannabis treat.

Now that you have everything you need, make some insanely delicious cannabutter brownies for yourself!

Happy baking!