Making edibles at home with our infused syrup is shockingly easy. No special equipment or advanced cooking skills required. But with that said, cooking anything with THC comes with a few subtleties, and swapping sugar for agave isn't always a one-to-one trade.
Here's what you need to know before diving into any of the recipes below.
Tips for Baking with Agave
Agave is sweeter and, as a syrup, clearly contains much more liquid than normal granulated sugar. You’ll have to make a few small adjustments to keep your next agave recipe from turning out too sweet, too soft, or too brown.
- Use less agave than sugar: Agave is roughly 1.5 times sweeter than sugar, so use about 25% less. For every 1 cup of sugar in a recipe, swap in ¾ cup of agave.
- Cut back on other liquids: Since agave is a liquid sweetener, it adds moisture that sugar doesn't. When baking cakes, muffins, or quick breads, reduce the other liquids (milk, water, juice) by about ¼ cup for every cup of sugar you replace.
- Lower the oven temperature: Agave caramelizes faster than sugar, which means your baked goods can brown on the outside before they're done in the middle. If you're adapting a traditional recipe, drop the oven temperature by 25°F and check to see if it's ready a few minutes early.
If all that feels a bit too confusing, the recipes below have already been adjusted!
Tips for Cooking with THC
A little know-how goes a long way for getting consistent, enjoyable results every time you cook with THC. It doesn’t play well with high heat, and more often than not, using less makes for a better final product.
- Keep the heat down: THC begins to break down at high temperatures, and the longer it's exposed to heat, the more potency you can lose. Baking at or below 325–350°F helps preserve it (the agave tip above for baking at lower temperatures works in your favor here too).
- Mix thoroughly: To avoid getting one cookie or one bite that’s more potent than the next, mix everything thoroughly after the THC is added. That includes THC syrup!
- Manage potency with partial swaps: You don't have to replace all of a recipe's sugar with THC-infused agave! In most cases, a combination of regular (non-THC) sugar and THC-infused agave results in a perfectly potent final product.
- As a final note: because THC can behave unpredictably with heat, for the most consistent results, stir the syrup into no-bake treats, glazes, frostings, drizzles, or sauces after they come off the stove or out of the oven.
Know Your Strength
If you’re making edibles at home, it's always important to understand serving size and know your own tolerance level. Our agave syrup is potent, so a little goes a long way.
Just 1 tablespoon of our Extra-Strength Agave Syrup contains 45 milligrams of THC, and most recipes below use a full ¼ cup (4 tablespoons). If you’re doing the math, that means the full recipe contains 180mg!