This cannabis cookies recipe starts with one cannabutter dough. Bake half as sugar cookies and fold chocolate chips into the rest, or go all one way. The step that matters most happens before the oven: working out how much THC ends up in each cookie.
Dosing and safety: do the math before you bake
Each cookie's dose is the cannabutter's total THC split across the batch. This recipe takes 8 tablespoons of butter and makes about 24 cookies. The table shows how blending in plain butter changes things if your cannabutter tops out near 39 mg per tablespoon, the full-cup figure in our cannabutter recipe example; butter that strains out to less than a cup runs stronger:
| Cannabutter | Plain butter | THC per cookie, at most |
|---|---|---|
| 1 tablespoon | 7 tablespoons | about 1.6 mg |
| 2 tablespoons | 6 tablespoons | about 3.3 mg |
| 4 tablespoons | 4 tablespoons | about 6.5 mg |
| 8 tablespoons | none | about 13 mg |
Canadian health officials suggest a first edible dose of 2.5 mg of THC at most. Michigan's limit for one serving of a licensed adult-use edible is 10 mg. Start with no more than about 2.5 mg, which may mean half a cookie, and wait at least 2 hours. For a fuller walkthrough, see our THC dosage guide.
Ingredients for one dough, two cookies
The recipe card lists everything: a classic butter, sugar, egg and flour dough, plus chocolate chips for one half and sugar or sprinkles for rolling the other. The one ingredient to plan is the butter. Blend cannabutter and plain butter to your dose, and let both soften to the same temperature so they cream together evenly. You can order flower for a fresh batch of cannabutter ahead from your local High Society store, and earn points with The Society, our free loyalty program.
Cannabis cookies recipe: one dough, two ways
Cream the butters and sugars for 2 to 3 minutes, scraping the bowl so no streak of cannabutter hides in a corner. After the egg and dry ingredients go in, divide the dough exactly in half and fold the chips into one half. Shape each half into 12 balls, so every cookie gets the same share with or without chips. Bake at 350°F for 9 to 11 minutes, until the edges set but the centers still look soft.
Mix-in ideas
- Chopped toasted pecans or walnuts
- Dried Michigan tart cherries with white chocolate chips
- A pinch of cinnamon in the rolling sugar
- A dip in melted plain chocolate once they cool
Mix-ins don't change the math as long as the cookie count stays the same. Skip infused chocolate for dipping, though, since it stacks a second dose on top. For a pan bake with the same butter, see our pot brownies recipe.
Storage and labeling
Once cool, the cookies keep in an airtight tin on the counter for up to about a week, or in the freezer for longer. Label the tin "contains THC," with the estimated mg per cookie and the date. An infused cookie looks exactly like a regular one, so keep the tin away from the snack shelf and well beyond kids' and pets' reach. Serve them to guests 21 and older, and tell them first that the cookies are infused.
