7 Edibles You Can Make Using Everyday Ingredients

Good edibles are not easy to make. An edible that tastes great and gets you high usually takes some hard work. And while you learn from trial and error, wasting weed on a burned edible is painful. We have some tips that can make your whole process more manageable.

To prepare edibles, it’s important to start slowly. Cooking is usually a trial and error process; Once you add cannabis to the mix, it becomes even more imprecise and error-prone. First things first: before you make it edible, you need to decarboxylate. If you skip this step, your brownies will taste just like raw cannabis. Worse, they won’t get you high.

Here are 7 easy edibles you can make using everyday ingredients:

cannabutter

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Cannabutter is the foundation of most edibles, especially the really good ones. This is where the weed concentration resides, so this is the most important part of the process. We recommend preparing and chilling a good batch of cannabutter ahead of time so you can make the most of it and use it with other edibles. You can also add it to a toast if you want a fun morning. Here’s a quick guide to making easy, effective, and delicious cannabutter.

firecrackers

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Firecrackers are a stoner staple, mostly because they’re super easy to make and also because they taste like peanut butter and cookies. To make them, all you need is peanut butter, graham crackers, and decarbed weed. Coat the graham crackers with a good amount of peanut butter—the fattier the better—and sprinkle in about ½ a gram of ground flowers per serving. Make sure the weed and peanut butter are evenly mixed. Wrap your cracker in aluminum foil. Preheat your oven to 320 degrees and let the crackers cook for about 25 minutes.

If you want to play it safe and get a taste of flavor and dosage before you dive in, measure your weed and prepare two versions of firecrackers—one high-dose and one low-dose. You can also cut the cracker into four and eat each piece slowly, observing how you feel.

bacon

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Bacon is delicious, but what makes it a great weed partner is the fact that it’s greasy and has a strong flavor that can mask the musky essence of marijuana. You can get creative with your weed bacon by cooking it with a touch of cannabutter or baking it with some decarbed weed.

weed milk

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Milk can be used in everything: in coffee, in cereal, and even in desserts. You can make weed milk by heating milk in a saucepan and adding some decarbed weed. Cook for about 40 minutes and then let it rest for a while. Once that’s done, strain the weed with a cheesecloth and you’re all set.

ice cream

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Weed ice cream is a little more elaborate than weed bacon and firecrackers. There are several ways to make marijuana-infused ice cream – there are some great recipes out there – but the easiest is to melt the cream and cannabutter and mix them together. As you cook and combine, add sugar to taste. You can tinker with this mix until you have something you like like nuts, fruits, granola, and whatever sounds good to you. Freeze overnight.

Brownies

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Weed brownies are very malleable, which is why they’re such a stoner staple. You can make them using your favorite recipe and substituting cannabutter for the butter, or you can make one of the many recipes that weed chefs have uploaded online. Or you can just make regular brownies and drizzle a little cannabutter over them while they’re warm. This last method is a little conservative, but it ensures you’re in control of your high and don’t ruin a perfectly decent batch of brownies. (Looking for more inspiration? Try this weed brownie recipe.)

Weed coffee or tea

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Weed coffee and tea are very simple, requiring only some cannabutter or dosed coconut oil. Add a scoop or less to your drink and enjoy. You can add more or less cannabutter depending on how you’re feeling.