Why butter?

Infusing your weed in butter is the easiest way of making delicious edibles. THC is lipophilic, meaning it can only bind the fat molecules, of which butter is rich. If you want to make it vegan, you can always choose your favorite plant oil, but since we are talking about cookies, we suggest coconut oil or other neutral-tasting vegetable oil, while we recommend avoiding strong-tasting oil, like olive oil. 

Decarboxylation: an important step

First of all your weed needs to be decarboxylated, to properly dissolve in butter (or oil of your choice). This process is necessary because it converts the THCA in the plant into THC, activating the cannabis’ psychoactive potential of your edibles¹. The decarboxylation process comes with heat: therefore, when you are smoking, the THCA gets decarboxylated in THC, which then makes you stoned. When making edibles, the decarboxylation process needs to  happen before the infusion and can be easily done by heating up cannabis at low temperature in an oven. 

First, grind your cannabis roughly in order to break the buds down but do not make it a powder. Then, place your cannabis on an oven tray with a baking sheet and heat it up at 110 °C for 30-40 minutes. Gently mix once or twice during the process to expose all the buds to the heat. Your cannabis is now well decarboxylated!

Now that we understand how important the decarboxylation step is, let’s go to the recipe!

How to make canna-butter step by step

Ingredients

• 1 cup unsalted butter

• 1 cup water

• 1 cup cannabis of your choice (already decarboxylated, around 7-10 grams)

Process

1. Grind your decarboxylated cannabis: you can use a grinder or your hands, but make sure to avoid having a fine powder, which could stay in the butter and leave a bad plant taste to your edibles.

2. Melt the butter in a pot on low heat, add the water to help regulate the heat.

3. Once the butter is melted, add the decarboxylated cannabis to the mixture and keep simmering for 2-3 hours on very low heat, making sure the mixture never comes to a full boil.

4. strain the mixture with a cheese-cloth to discard the plant material and place it in a jar. We recommend you don’t squeeze it too much to prevent chlorophyll from going into your cannabutter, which can give a bad plant taste.

5. Refrigerate the jar overnight once it cools down. You will find excess water at the bottom of the jar, you can then remove the solid butter with a knife and drain the water.

Your cannabutter is now ready! We recommend trying half of a teaspoon first and wait around 45-60 min to test how strong it is. Remember, you can always add less weed if the 1:1 ratio feels too much for you, or you can use it in your edible recipe adding normal butter to make your edibles milder. Dosing edibles is always tricky because too many variables have a role, that is why we recommend to first try a small amount and see how that affects you so you can make your own dose! 

Now that your cannabutter is ready you can use it for your favorite recipes, from savory to salty. Here our recommendation for amazing Christmas cookies that everybody will love!