Cannabis Infused Sugar Cookies Recipe — 8 Minute Bake

Microwave the cannabutter and regular butter together for 30 seconds. Check — it should be soft but not fully melted. If needed, add another 20 seconds. You want soft, workable butter, not liquid. Add the 1½ cups of white sugar to the softened cannabutter sugar cookies base and stir vigorously to combine. The mixture should look creamy and slightly pale.

Step 4: Add Egg and Vanilla

Crack in 1 egg and add 1 tsp of vanilla extract. Stir well to fully incorporate into the butter-sugar mixture. Once the egg is added, do not microwave the mixture again — you’ll end up with scrambled egg in your cannabis cookies. Mix until smooth and uniform.

Step 5: Combine Wet and Dry Ingredients

Add the dry flour mixture to the wet butter mixture gradually. Stir with a spoon — or get your hands in there for the final mixing. The dough should come together into a soft, slightly sticky ball. Don’t overmix, but make sure there are no dry flour pockets at the bottom of the bowl. This is the key technique for how to make cannabis cookies with cannabutter that bake evenly.

Step 6: Portion and Bake

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Scoop tablespoon-sized balls of dough and place them on the sheet — 4 across works well, with rows leaving space for spreading. The cookies will flatten out slightly during baking. Bake on the middle rack at 190°C (350°F) for 8–10 minutes, until the edges are just starting to turn golden. They’ll continue to cook briefly after removal, so pull them out while they look slightly underdone in the centre.

Step 7: Cool on a Rack and Store

Transfer cookies to a metal cooling rack. Let them cool completely before storing in a sealed container. For softer cookies, place a half slice of bread in the container — the cookies absorb a little moisture from the bread and stay soft longer. This batch makes 3–4 trays of cookies.

Dosing Tips for Cannabis Sugar Cookies

Cannabis sugar cookie dosing tips are important with this recipe. Using ½ cup of cannabutter made with 3.5g of cannabis, this batch produces a significant number of cookies — and the dose per cookie depends on how evenly the cannabutter distributed through the dough. Not every cookie will be equal in potency. Always start with 1 small cookie and wait at least 90 minutes before eating more. Edibles can take 45–120 minutes to take effect depending on your metabolism and what you’ve eaten.