How To Make Pot Brownies At Home

Over the last century, pot brownies have become legendary, thanks to their use in famous TV shows and movies like Frasier, Perks of Being a Wallflower, That ‘70s Show, and more. Luckily for you, these tasty treats are easy to make at home — as long as you know how!

Key Takeaways

• A cannabis brownie is simply a brownie that has been made with cannabis-infused ingredients. Butter is the most common ingredient to infuse with cannabis, and oil is another popular option.
• To skip the lengthy process of preparing your cannabis and infusing your butter, consider buying infused ingredients like our THC-infused oil, sugar, or chocolate.
• If you're using cannabis flower, you'll need to decarboxylate it in the oven first.
• Make sure you leave a few hours to properly infuse your butter or oil. If you don't simmer it with your cannabis for enough time, it won't draw out enough THC from your cannabis to have an effect.
• Any brownie recipe will work. For beginners, simply following the instructions on your brownie mix will do nicely.
• If you know the THC content of your cannabis, you can easily calculate the THC content in each of your brownies.

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What Are Pot Brownies?

There's only one thing better than brownies: weed brownies. But what exactly is a weed brownie?

Despite what you might think, a weed brownie isn't literally a brownie with marijuana in it. They're a little more involved than that.

To make weed brownies, you need to process your cannabis flower. Then you have to infuse the processed flower in some kind of fat. Butter is the most popular option.

Finally, you use your infused butter to make a delicious batch of weed brownies.

That might sound complicated, but it's really not. You can whip up a batch of pot brownies with no baking experience. And yes, we mean baking in both senses of the word.

We'll discuss each step, give some top tips, then share a few great weed brownie recipes for you to try at home.

Oh, and we’ll even cover a few shortcuts you can take if all this sounds like too much work.

Preparing Your Pot

The first step to any weed brownie recipe is preparing your flower.

This assumes you're using flower, of course. If you want to use something else, like THC sugar, skip ahead. 

But for those of you with cannabis flower, you'll need to decarboxylate it. This is necessary to activate the psychoactive compounds in your flower. 

It's the same thing that happens when you light up your flower, activate a vape pen, and so on. In other words, you can't skip this step!

Fortunately, it's pretty easy. Here are the steps:

1. Break up your buds and spread them on a baking dish. You don't want to grind the plant material, as you would when smoking. 
2. Preheat your oven to around 220ºF. Anything between 210ºF and 240ºF will work.
3. Put your cannabis in the oven and leave it for about half an hour. It should turn from green to gold-brown.

That's it! With your cannabis activated, you can move on to the next step.

Infusing the Butter or Oil

Here's where you need to start making some choices. Cannabis can be infused into basically any fat. Butter or oil are the two most popular choices.

If you go for butter, just use any regular butter. When baking, unsalted butter is ideal.

If you want to infuse oil, coconut oil is a great choice. 

Regardless, the first step is to measure out your fat and then melt it. Make sure not to burn it, though. Low and slow is the way to go.

Next, add your decarboxylated cannabis to your melted butter or oil. Now it's time to wait.

Different cannabis brownie recipes call for different waiting times. In general, you want to keep your butter or oil simmering over low heat for at least a few hours. 

If you have a slow cooker, you can leave your cannabis butter or oil infusing for several hours. Even overnight, should you really want to go for it. 

The longer you leave it, the more THC will leach from your cannabis into the butter.

Just make sure not to forget about it! Especially if you're simmering on a stove.

Once you're satisfied, it's time to strain the ground cannabis from your cannabis infused butter or oil. Some brownie recipes call for a strainer, but the best option is a cheesecloth.

Slowly pour your infused butter or oil through the cloth or strainer to remove all the ground cannabis.

Making Your Weed Brownie

From here on out, you can follow your favorite recipes for brownies. Or cookies. Really, any baked good will do.

Brownies are popular because of their strong chocolatey flavor. It overpowers the potentially unpleasant taste of the cannabis infused butter or oil.

The easiest option is to follow the instructions on your brownie mix box. 

You'll usually have to add your chocolate mixture to a mixing bowl, then add some butter or oil. Just replace some or all of the butter or oil with your cannabis infused butter or oil. 

If you have less infused butter or oil than required, add normal butter or oil as well to meet the necessary amount.

Next, grease a baking pan. Alternatively, lay down some parchment paper. This will prevent your precious weed brownies from sticking to the pan.

Now you can spread your brownie batter in the baking pan. Make sure to spread it evenly. If you don't, some areas might be overcooked while others remain partially raw.

Finally, bake! Follow the instructions in your boxed mix recipe. It should provide you with a specific baking time.

You can check if your brownies are done by taking them out of the oven and poking them with a toothpick. When you pull the toothpick out, it should be clean. If it's coated in brownie mix, your cannabis brownies need more time in the oven.

When your weed brownies are done, you might want to dig right in. We get it! You worked so hard, and they smell delicious. (At least, they should.)

But you should try to resist this. It's best to let your pot brownies cool before you cut them up and chow down.

To store your pot brownies, use an airtight container. 

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Best Weed Brownie Recipes

Now, following a basic brownie recipe will leave you with classic weed brownies. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

But why not get a little creative?

After all, part of the fun of making cannabis brownies, and all homemade edibles, is making them your own.

That doesn't necessarily mean going crazy. First, try adding some extra ingredients. Chocolate chips are a classic. Nuts are another popular choice.

You can also experiment with shape. A square cake pan is all well and good, but what about cannabis cupcakes?

There's no shortage of cannabis recipes online. Bon Appetit has a great recipe for fudgy brownies.

If you want something a little healthier, try this recipe. It uses cacao powder instead of cocoa powder, dates instead of sugar, vanilla extract, and black beans.

While you don't need fancy ingredients when making brownies, they certainly don't hurt. As long as you follow the basic steps, feel free to let your imagination run wild.

Calculating THC Dosage

Cannabis edibles have a somewhat infamous reputation. You've likely heard tales of people taking what they thought was a reasonable dose, only to go on a far longer trip than they expected.

When making edibles, it's important to try and calculate how much THC is in your weed brownies. That way you know how much you're taking.

That's responsible consumption!

Fortunately, calculating THC is pretty easy. That is, as long as you know the THC content in your cannabis. 

If your cannabis is 20% THC, for example, you can simply multiply the amount of cannabis you used by 0.2 to calculate the amount of THC in your brownie mix.

Used 1g of cannabis? Then your infused butter or oil has 200mg of THC. If you cut your brownies into ten pieces, each piece will have 20mg of THC.

Simple.

Your THC product should offer dosage guidelines. Ideally, you should follow them.

But what if you don't know them? Perhaps you grew the cannabis flower yourself.

If that’s the case, take care. Make sure to always take as little as possible, and wait a good hour to see how you respond before increasing the dose. 

Whatever the case, you have two choices. First, use it anyway, being sure to stick to the principles of responsible consumption. That means taking less than you think necessary and waiting a good hour for the effects to kick in before taking any more.

Using THC Sugar

Believe it or not, infused butter is far from your only option. We offer Delta 9 THC Sugar to let you skip right to the baking part.

In other words, you can cut down the time it takes to make pot brownies from several hours to 45 minutes or less!

Calculating the dosage with our sugar is simple. Each gram has 2.5mg of infused Delta 9 THC. 

Even better, the Delta 9 THC is federally legal and derived from hemp.

You can still follow your normal brownie recipe. Just replace the granulated sugar with Delta 9 THC Sugar.

Simple!

Using Cannabis Oil

Instead of infusing your own oil, you can simply buy some. We offer Delta 8 THC Tincture Oil, for example. It's vegan, free from artificial ingredients, and has absolutely no gluten, should that be an issue.

Conclusion

Pot brownies are popular for a reason. They combine two amazing things — brownies and THC — into one tasty treat!

With all kinds of recipes available online, you can stick to the basics or experiment, start from scratch or skip to the good part with our infused sugar or oil.

Just make sure to eat your delicious creations responsibly.

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