Name: Classic Weed Brownies
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 40 min
Ingredients: 1/2 cup cannabutter (hot and melted); 1 cup granulated sugar; 2 large eggs (room temperature); 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract; 3/4 cup all-purpose flour; 2/3 cup cacao powder; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 2 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)

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These weed brownies are classic, fudgey, delicious and easy to make. It is the best weed brownie recipe using cannabutter.

I made these brownies medium-low dose, so you can feel comfortable using them to calm anxiety, for relaxation, and as a sleep aid. However, I will also share tips for how to adjust potency to suit your needs. Watch the video below for how easy it is to make the classic weed brownies.

Easy Weed Brownies with Cannabutter

This weed brownie recipe is super easy to make! You will need the following ingredients and the beauty of the recipe is that you can mix everything in one bowl.

Cannabutter
Sugar: I use organic cane sugar, but you can use any other granulated kinds
Eggs
Pure vanilla extract
All-purpose flour: I use unbleached as they are healthier than bleached
Cacao powder
Salt
Chocolate chips (optional)

Weed Brownie Recipe Tips

If you are using pre-made cannabutter, you need to heat it up to melt the butter. Make sure your cannabutter is hot, and the eggs aren’t cold, so that the sugar can be completely dissolved. If your cannabutter isn’t hot enough, your wet ingredient mixture will end up very thick. After adding the dry ingredients your batter will be too hard to stir. If this happens, you can place your mixing bowl in a hot water bath to help melt the cannabutter, which will in turn soften the brownie batter.
When lining a square cake pan with parchment paper, I like to cover the bottom and 2 opposite sides and leave extra paper over the sides (see video) so that I can use the paper to lift out the brownie after baking. Grease the other 2 sides of the pan that’s not covered by parchment paper to prevent the brownie from sticking to the pan.

Storing Weed Brownies

For any weed brownies you won’t be able to consume within a few days, you can wrap them up in plastic wraps first before packing away in a container. This will help prevent the brownies from losing their moisture. You can store the brownies in an airtight container at room temperature for 5 days or in the fridge for 2 weeks. For longer term storage, you can keep them in the freezer for 3 months. It’s a good idea to freeze weed brownies individually. This way you can defrost the desired amount a couple hours before you are ready to eat them.

Yield and Serving Suggestion

When it comes to homemade edibles, it’s really hard to predict the potency of your creation due to so many factors (I elaborated more in my cannabis peanut butter cookies recipe). By using my homemade cannabutter in these weed brownies, I can make a rough estimate basing on experience. The following recommendations come from many people taste-testing my own batches, but feel free to experiment and adapt to your ingredients and tolerance level.

This recipe makes an 8-inch square slab. I cut the slab into 25 (5×5) pieces, so that each piece of brownie will not be too strong. I recommend eating 1 to 2 pieces at a time. Keep in mind it takes 2 to 3 hours for edibles to take effects. But if you have a really high tolerance level, you may be able to eat up to 4. Each piece of the brownie is about the strength of 2 cannabis chocolate squares I made previously.

If you cut your brownies into larger pieces, be sure to eat fewer of them. For example, if you cut the slab into 16 (4×4) pieces, a single piece of brownie will be about the strength of 3 cannabis chocolate squares. At this serving size, some lightweights will not be able to tolerate 1 single brownie piece, 2 pieces will be fairly powerful even for a big adult, and you should be very cautious about eating 3.

Adjusting Potency of the Weed Brownies

As we don’t want to affect the consistency of the brownie batter, we can’t alter the ratio of cannabutter in this recipe in large amount. Therefore to change the potency of the brownies, we will need to change the cannabis-to-butter ratio at the time of making the cannabutter.

My standard cannabutter (the one in the brownies) uses 1/4 cup cannabis and 1 cup butter. You can increase or decrease the amount of cannabis, while keeping the amount of butter the same. This way you can produce stronger or weaker cannabutter to your liking.

Alternatively, you can add some cannabis pulp (leftover from making cannabutter) into the brownie batter, as a way to make the brownies more potent as well as to use up the leftover pulps. I did not add the pulps in my batch so that I could use this recipe as a benchmark for potency and serving suggestion.

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