How to Make Infused Fall Treats

The leaves are turning orange, but for those of us that love the green, fall is the perfect time to experiment with baking with cannabis. If you want to bring the perfect mind-bending yet delicious treats to your autumnal get-togethers this year, cannabis-infused muffins, pies or even candy apples are the way to go.

Light some candles, get cozy, grab your favorite recipe and bud, and keeping reading to learn how to make tasty cannabis-infused fall treats!

 

How to Make Infused Fall Snacks

You can make any of your favorite fall treats psychedelic by replacing the normal butter in the original recipe with THC-infused butter or oil. Many dispensaries sell THC oils and tinctures that can be added to food and drink, but if you want to make your own cannabis-infused butter, you’ll have to go through the decarboxylation process, or “decarb” your weed.

 

How to Decarb Cannabis

In the simplest terms, THC from raw flower needs to be activated with heat to be effective. When we smoke or vape, decarboxylation happens when we run the battery or light the bud on fire. But when consuming cannabis, that activation doesn’t happen unless we decarb it beforehand. That’s why adding straight up ground bud to muffins won’t provide any psychedelic effects.

 

Decarbing fresh, ground cannabis requires cooking it. Don’t try to do this in the microwave as you won’t be able to accurately control the temperature, and you could risk overheating it, which will also make it ineffective. Here are Leafly’s simple instructions to effectively decarb your flower.

 

1. Set the oven temperature to 220ºF, with the oven rack in the middle position. Ovens are hotter at the top and cooler at the bottom, so heating in the middle will ensure ideal decarboxylation temperature.

2. Line the baking sheet with parchment paper or aluminum foil, and lightly break up or grind the cannabis onto it, but not too fine, to avoid burning.

3. Heat for 30-40 minutes, stirring at least once.

4. Let cool for 30 minutes at room temperature. The cannabis should look lightly toasted and golden brown.

5. When cool enough to handle, add the decarboxylated cannabis to butter, oil, or another base for an infusion, or carefully put it in a storage container for future use.

 

How to Dose Cannabis-Infused Butter  

Now that you have your cannabutter, you may be wondering how much to actually add to your recipe. The best part about using cannabis-infused butter is that you can add the exact same amount as the original recipe calls for.

 

The dosing comes in when you add the decarbed cannabis to your butter or oil. To calculate how much THC the butter will contain, take the number of grams of weed you have, and the percentage of THC that strain contains. Multiply these numbers and then multiply by 1,000. For easy math, if you have 10 grams of cannabis that has 10% THC (even though most have more), you’ll have 1,000 mg of THC in your butter (10 x 0.10 x 1,000).

 

Next, divide the number of individual treats you’ll have in your batch by the overall mg of THC. If you’re making 30 mini apple crisps, you’ll have about 33 grams of THC in each. So, once you’ve done the math, you can decide how much cannabis you actually have to decarb to make your dessert as strong or weak as you want.

 

Now you’re ready to whip up your favorite fall treat! If you don’t have one in mind already, check out our favorites below.

 

Apple Crisp

Put a trippy twist on an autumn classic with a full apple crisp cut into individual servings.

 

Ingredients:

• 10 to 11 cups sliced peeled tart apples
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, divided
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup quick-cooking oats
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 cup cannabis-infused* butter or oil
• Vanilla ice cream, optional

 

How to Make Infused Apple Crisp:

1. Preheat oven to 375°.
2. Place apples in a large bowl.
3. Combine sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon; sprinkle over apples and toss to coat. 4. Transfer to a greased 13x9-in. baking dish.
4. Combine flour, brown sugar, oats, baking powder, nutmeg and remaining 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon; cut in cannabis-infused butter or oil* until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle over apples.
5. Bake until apples are tender, 50-60 minutes.
6. Serve warm, with vanilla ice cream if desired.

*butter in original recipe has been substituted for cannabis-infused butter or oil.

See the full recipe at tasteofhome.com.

 

Pumpkin Muffins

Get everyone into the spooky spirit with these delicious pumpkin muffins that are so easy to swap butter for cannabutter.

 

Ingredients: 

• Cooking spray
• 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
• ¾ cup  cannabis-infused butter or oil*
• ¾ cup brown sugar
• ¼ cup water
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
• ½ cup white sugar
• 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon baking powder

 

How to Make Infused Pumpkin Muffins:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 14 muffin cups or line with paper liners sprayed with cooking spray.
2. Mix pumpkin puree, cannabis-infused butter*, brown sugar, water, eggs, and vanilla extract together in a large bowl.
3. Mix flour, white sugar, pumpkin spice, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, and baking powder together in a separate bowl. Pour into pumpkin mixture and mix until fully incorporated.
4. Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each 3/4 full.
5. Bake in the preheated oven until muffins are slightly browned on top and spring back easily when pressed, 25 to 30 minutes.

*butter in original recipe has been substituted for cannabis-infused butter or oil.

See the full recipe at allrecipes.com.

 

Hazelnut Blondies

 

A dessert with Nutella and cannabis? These hazelnut blondies are bound to be a party favorite.

 

Ingredients: 

• Cooking spray
• ¾ cup (1½ sticks) cannabis-infused butter or oil*
• 1 ½ cups packed dark brown sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ½ teaspoon kosher salt
• ½ cup toasted unsalted skinned hazelnuts (optional), chopped
• ⅓ cup chocolate-hazelnut spread, such as Nutella
• ¼ teaspoon flaky sea salt

 

How to Make Infused Hazelnut Blondies:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat a 9-inch square baking pan with cooking spray. Line with parchment paper, leaving a 2-inch overhang on 2 sides.
2. Melt cannabis-infused butter* in a large pot over medium, stirring occasionally to ensure butter doesn't brown, 3 to 4 minutes. Remove from heat; whisk in sugar until well-combined. Whisk in eggs and vanilla.
3. Add flour, baking powder, and kosher salt to butter mixture; stir until batter is smooth. Stir in hazelnuts, if using.
4. Transfer batter to baking pan. Spread in an even layer and smooth top.
5. Dollop chocolate-hazelnut spread in tablespoonfuls on top of blondie batter.
6. Drag a wooden spoon or a skewer through spread to swirl it slightly (it won't be evenly spread out over batter). Sprinkle with flaky sea salt.
7. Bake until top of blondies is set and edges are golden (center will still be a bit gooey), 22 to 24 minutes. Transfer baking pan to a wire rack and let blondies cool completely, about 2 hours. Using parchment paper overhang as handles, remove blondies from pan and slice.

*butter in original recipe has been substituted for cannabis-infused butter or oil.

See the full recipe at realsimple.com.

 

Skip the decarbing process by "cooking" your weed in your dry herb vape! Save the brown weed that is leftover after you vape it. That's your decarbed flower. 

Looking for more infused recipes? Try our THC-infused drinks, infused Superbowl snacks, or keep it old school with some weed cookies!