Cannabutter Recipe

Cannabutter Recipe

This is a small-batch cannabutter recipe which will get you through a couple meals with friends of something to spice up solo dish creations for a while - enjoy! This will yield a potent 57 mg per tablespoon, 19 mg per teaspoon, assuming 20% THC flower.

Infusion Type Recipe Type
Cannabutter
Base Servings Dose
1/4 ounce of ground cannabis flower 1 758mg
Prep Time (min) Cook Time (min) Rest Time (min) Total Time (min)
15 300 315
  • 1 cup of butter (2 sticks)
  • 1/4 ounce of cannabis 

Step 1

Pre-heat oven to 245 degrees

Step 2

Grind the cannabis in a grinder or chop on cutting board using a kitchen knife (be careful!)

Step 3

Place ground cannabis on oven sheet lined with foil and place sheet in oven for 45 minutes

Step 4

Put butter in slow cooker (or large pan if no slow cooker) along with decarb cannabis.

For slow cooker: set on LOW and cook for 5 hours (4 is OK if you're short on time)
For large pan: cook on LOW for 3 hours but stir often so it does not burn

Step 5 

Allow to cool then strain using a cheese cloth or fine strainer then store cannabutter oil in a clearly marked container.

NOTE: Use the recipes on this website to estimate dosage as they use this recipe as a baseline. 

cannabutter recipe

Edible THC Dosage Calculator

enter the THC percentage of your strain (e.g. 22.5)
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408.5 mg total (assumes aggressive 90% decarb and a 60% absorption rates)
30.6 mg
7.65