An Online Dispensary Guide to Easily Making Weed-infused Hot Chocolate
Edibles are an increasingly popular way to enjoy cannabis—whether for its recreational high or potential health gains.
The options of edible cannabis products in your weed dispensaries are increasing by the day—from THC-infused candies to marijuana-laced beverages.
These products offer cannabis enthusiasts fun and efficient ways to enjoy cannabis and all its exciting benefits.
In this guide, you’ll learn how to make THC hot chocolate.
The article takes you through the process—from decarbing (activating your weed’s active compounds), making your cannoil and cannabutter, and easy hot chocolate recipes to spruce up your cannabis game.
To begin, first things first…
Decarb Your Weed
Preparing your weed-infused hot chocolate begins with decarboxylating your weed to activate its potent compounds.
Skipping this process will leave you with a yummy flavorful edible that won’t get you stoned.
Decarbing your cannabis flowers follows a few pretty easy steps discussed below.
Items needed for weed decarboxylation
- Baking sheet
- Cannabis flower ( check your online dispensary for your budget buds)
- Aluminum foil
Instructions for decarboxylating your weed
- Preset your oven to 240 degrees F
- While the oven heats, break your buds into smaller bits. Be careful not to over-grind into too fine pieces to avoid burning your herbs.
- Line your baking sheet with aluminum foil; the shiny side faces up. Your aluminum foil prevents direct heat from the sheet that could burn and ruin your weed.
- Spread out your evenly broken buds on the foil and place another foil atop the flowers.
- Put your sheet on the center rack of your oven and leave it to heat for about 40 to 45 minutes. Your buds will soon begin to release a strong, earthy weed-ish aroma. If it smells burnt, that’s a bad sign–turn down the temperature.
- After 45 minutes, take down your weed and allow it to cool. If you have roasted-looking golden buds, kudos; you did a great job. Your weed with fully activated THC and other compounds is ready to space you out.
You can store your THC-activated flowers in an airtight container for later use or set them aside for your hot chocolate recipe.
But before making your hot cocoa with weed, you’ll need to have your cannabis butter handy. You can get quality cannabutter from your online dispensary in Canada.
But if you don’t have your cannabis-infused butter yet, no worries, you can make some in no time.
Here’s a simple cannabutter recipe you can fix in a few minutes:
Making Your Cannabis Butter
Ingredients
- Crockpot
- 1 ¼ cup of your [favorite] butter
- ½ ounce of cannaoil
Cannabutter Recipe
- Place your butter in a crockpot
- Mix in your decarboxylated cannabis
- Cover your pot and leave to heat for 4-6 hours
- Stir intermittently as necessary
Making Your Cannabis Oil
Cannaoil Ingredients
- ½ ounce of decarboxylated weed
- 1 ½ cups of coconut oil (either plain or cannabis-infused, available in online weed dispensaries)
- Crockpot
- Mason jar
- Cheesecloth
Cannaoil Recipe
- Fill up your jar with your preferred coconut oil
- Pour your decarbed weed into the jar
- Place the jar inside your crockpot. Allow to heat for between 4 to 6 hours
- Remove your mason jar from the pot
- Strain oil with your cheesecloth and store oil in an airtight container
Now you have your cannabis oil. It’s time to learn how to make THC hot chocolate.
How to Make your THC Hot Chocolate
Ingredients
- ½ teaspoon of cannabis oil (as prepared above or sourced from an online dispensary)
- 12 0z of choco chips —whether dark chocolate or semi-sweet
- 10 oz mini marshmallows
THC Hot Chocolate Recipe
- Place your chocolate chips in your bowl and place them in the microwave. Allow to heat for a minute.
- Your chocolate must have melted. Remove from the microwave and stir gently. Where the chocolate is not fully melted, keep stirring until it melts.
If it still wouldn’t completely melt, return it to the microwave and let it heat for an additional 20 seconds. - Mix your cannabis oil into your runny chocolate and continue to stir
- Once you achieve a homogenous product, fill the mixture in your cupcake tin.
- Place your mini marshmallow atop
- Gently push the sticks into the middle of your cups.
- Place your tins in the freezer and allow them to freeze.
- Remove THC hot chocolate from the cupcake.
You can enjoy frozen chocolate with weed or mix it into your warm milk and stir.
And that’s it. Get ready to feel all cannabis highs and lows as you sip on your weed hot chocolate.
Making Your Hot Chocolate with Cannasugar
Assuming you have ready-made cannabis sugar bought from a local weed dispensary in Canada.
After making your regular THC-infused hot cocoa recipe, toss a dose of canna sugar into your mug, and there you have it.
How much cannabis-infused sugar you add depends on how much potency you desire.
But we recommend you start with about ½ teaspoon and up the doses based on the result.
For taste, you can always use your regular sugar to modulate the sweetness of your weed hot chocolate.
Making Your Hot Chocolate with Cannabis Milk
THC-rich milk works for practically every milk-based cannabis recipe, but it seems to blend best with hot chocolate and ice creams.
Using cannabis milk for your weed hot cocoa recipe can be as simple as adding milk to your regular chocolate mix.
However, here’s a quick recipe you can fix:
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups of regular milk
- ½ cup of cannabis milk
- ⅓ cult of chocolate —grated semi-sweet
- 1 tablespoon of white sugar
- ½ tablespoon of ground cinnamon
Instructions
- At a high temperature, leave your milk in the microwave for 2 minutes
- Add in your chocolate, cinnamon, and sugar
- Leave to heat for about 4 minutes. You should get a foamy appeal
- Whisk to get a smooth texture.
- Serve in your mugs.
As mentioned, an easier way out could be making a regular hot chocolate recipe and adding your cannabis milk.
A tablespoon of canna milk should do. Feel free to up the dose as desired.
Making Your Hot Chocolate with Kief
While it’s easy to toss out your kief, they offer one of the easiest ways around making your cannabis-infused hot chocolate.
It’s as simple as making your regular cup of hot chocolate and sprinkling your decarbed weed in your mug of chocolate.
Remember, cannabis kief is highly potent, so about a quarter gram in your chocolate should do.
So the next time you buy weed online, don’t trash the kief
Caution With Eating Hot Chocolate
Edibles offer cannabis users a fun and healthier way to enjoy weed’s recreational and medical benefits. But if you’re inexperienced with cannabis edibles, tred slowly.
Importantly, note that using THC hot cocoa, as with other edibles, requires patience. You may need to wait up to an hour for the desired effects to trickle in.
Hence, if this is your first experience with THC-infused choco, you want to begin with the lowest possible doses and work your way up to more suitable amounts.
You probably have enough time to sip off your choco drink, so, no rush; go slowly.
Why THC Hot Chocolate?
If you’ve ever experienced hot chocolate in weed, you can relate to why many are stuck to this recipe.
THC-infused beverages give a vibe that hits differently from every other form of dosing cannabis.
It’s desirable to medical cannabis users who may only have to kick back with a mug of infused coffee and sip in all the therapeutic gains without smoking or vaping.
But besides its smell-proof, discrete and non-messy nature, edibles, the whole preparation can be exciting and the dosing fun.
It offers a fun and relaxing method to exploit weed’s great potential.
THC-infused coco is a super exciting way to kick start your day as well as wind up at the end of a stress-laden work day.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Decarboxylation?
Decarboxylation, often shortened to decarb, is a process of heating up cannabis to ‘activate’ cannabis compounds.
Notably, this process converts THCA to THC, a conversion needed to cause all the joy-giving euphoria popularly called high.
Without decarb, you may still enjoy all cannabis flavor and some benefits, but with zero high.
How Do I Store My Weed Hot Chocolate?
Place your chocolate in an airtight container and store it in your cabinet or shelf. It boasts up to six months of shelf life.
How Can I Make My Hot Chocolate More Potent?
There are a few options to make your weed hot chocolate recipe more potent:
- Prefer more potent cannabis buds when cannaoil
- Increase your cannaoil concentration in your serving. A little trial and error over time will help you get a more
Why THC Hot Chocolate?
There are several positive reviews for THC-infused chocolate. Summarily, These chocolates
- THC-infused choco are easy to make
- Offer users a healthy way to use cannabis
- Provide a range of benefits—typical of cannabis products
- Longer-lasting and deeper-acting effect