🌿 How to Make Cannabutter at Home Safely and Accurately with Just 2 Ingredients Today!
Making cannabutter at home shouldn’t feel overwhelming, mysterious, or dangerous. With just two ingredients and a clear understanding of dosage, you can create a healing tool that supports your wellness goals—without the fear of overdoing it.
I’ve spent years developing accurate cannabis calculators to help real people like you safely integrate plant medicine into their lives. Whether you’re a beginner looking to experiment with edibles or someone managing chronic pain, this recipe is the gateway to understanding your dosage, your ingredients, and your body.
✅ Why Make Cannabutter at Home?
Store-bought edibles can be unpredictable—and expensive. Making your own allows you to:
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Control the type and strain of cannabis
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Avoid unnecessary additives or preservatives
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Choose your own butter (salted, unsalted, ghee, vegan, etc.)
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Accurately calculate dosage for yourself and your loved ones
And yes—you can do it without fancy equipment or a complicated decarb process. You just need clarity, intentionality, and the right tools.
🔢 Use My Cannabis Calculators (Seriously, They’ll Change Your Life)
One of the biggest mistakes people make with DIY edibles is guessing.
How strong is my flower?
How much THC is in one teaspoon?
How much should I give to a beginner—or a senior—or a pet?
That’s exactly why I built a suite of calculators:
🧠 The Cannabutter Calculator
Tells you exactly how much THC/CBD is in your infused butter based on:
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The potency of your flower
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The amount of butter you’re using
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Your infusion method
📏 The Dosage Per Serving Calculator
Helps you divide your butter into accurately dosed servings—no more guessing if a cookie is 5mg or 25mg.
🧑🍳 The Recipe Adjustment Tool
You can scale recipes up or down depending on who you’re making them for—great for families, microdosing, or just having one calm cup of tea before bed.
🟢 These tools are free to use with a basic membership, and they’re designed with home cooks, herbalists, and caregivers in mind.
🧈 Your 2 Ingredients: Simplicity Done Right
All you need for this recipe is:
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High-quality butter (I use unsalted for versatility)
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Cannabis flower or trim (I’ll show you how to estimate potency)
The full recipe is available to guests and members alike and includes:
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Suggested tools to make the process easier
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Temperature and time recommendations
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Storage and shelf-life instructions
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Butter serving suggestions
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Equipment
Ingredients
- a Portion Size of Decarbed Ground Cannabis Flower Toss-In per Potency Preference
- 1 Cup Butter
Instructions
- Use our Primary Staples Infusion Potency Calculator to determine how many grams of Cannabis Flower you want to use.
- Weigh and measure the amount of Cannabis Flower you intend to use for this recipe on the digital kitchen scale.
- Do not grind the flower. Break the flower buds to kernel sized pieces.
- Place a clean dish towel at the bottom of your crockpot.
- Add water in the bottom pan of your double broiler. Heat until boiling.
- Melt butter and pour in mason jars. Betsy Bot likes to put a half cup of butter in pint size mason jars.
- Add measured flower to the butter in the mason jars.
- Place the lids on the mason jars and tighten jars to "finger tight". You don't want water getting into your butter flower mixture. Do not screw on the lids too tight either.
- Carefully add the jars to the water bath. Watch for any bubbles that float to the surface as this will indicate one of the lids is not on tight enough. If that happens, remove the jar immediately to tighten the lid.
- Bring the water temperature to about 180℉. You have a range of about 160℉ to 200℉. The sweet spot is about 180℉.
- Place the lid on your slow cooker or crock pot and allow flower to steep in butter for four hours. Continue to maintain a consistent water temperature with either a cooking thermometer or digital temperature controls if your crock pot allows for that feature.
- After four hours, remove the jars from the water bath with tongs.
- Allow butter jars to cool enough for handling.
- Once cool enough to work with, strain the butter into a clean jar, bowl or spout measuring cup.
- To strain, you can use cheesecloth, a coffee filter or a French press.
- Once strained, add the butter to portion sized silicone molds. Betsy Bot likes to use silicone ice cube trays that are 1 TBS per mold portion.
- Place filled molds in freezer.
- When fully frozen, individual frozen butter tablets can be removed from the trays and placed into to zip freezer bags.
- Label zip freezer bag with the cannabis potency per TBS or whatever measurement unit you are using for the individual tablets.
- Keep tablets in the freezer until ready to use.
- Frozen tablets defrost faster than you think. When using tablets in recipes, work quickly or place tablets in a small bowl to defrost while preparing the rest of the other recipe as needed.
Betsy’s Infusion Notes:
- Spread on a piece of toast (after defrosting of course).
- Added to any baking mixture that calls for butter.
- Used as a cream base for sauces such as alfredo sauce or creamy cheese sauce.
- Used as a dipping butter for vegetables and seafood. Remember DO NOT heat infused butter in the microwave. It will zap and kill all positive cannabinoid benefits.
- Anything else you use butter for in recipes!
My Personal Notes for this Recipe
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💡 Final Thoughts: Safe, Simple, and Effective
Homemade cannabis remedies should feel just like any other herbal preparation in your kitchen—empowering, not intimidating.
Whether you’re managing sleep, inflammation, anxiety, or just want to explore edible support in a safe and practical way, this recipe is a powerful place to start.
If you’ve got flower and butter, you’re already halfway there. I’ll walk you through the rest.
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