How To Make Weed Candy: Best Recipes

If you are looking for the simplest weed candy recipe, you’ve found it here. With our marijuana candy recipe, it is easy to make bud edibles like lollipops. Making THC infused candy edibles can be a smart way to get medical pot benefits to children or the elderly. Throughout the world, weed candies are used to treat pain and mental disorders. You will first learn the simple secret to any hash edible or cannabis candy recipe, which is a tincture. Once you know how to make the tincture, recipes for marijuana candies are easy to follow.

Choosing a Strain

To choose a strain, consult our strain list here:  https://leaf.expert/strain.   All of these strains are high quality and powerful, but they are good for different uses. Different strains have different levels of THC. A government strain mine have as little as 3% while a designer strain may have as much as 30% THC. It’s important to choose a strain that has the THC level, the flavors, and the medicinal effects that you are seeking. Some fruity flavored strains include the popular Cotton Candy and Fruity Pebbles strain. The Mr. Nice Guy strain has a smooth 13% to 19% THC level, while the powerful OG Kush has up to 30% THC. Using this information, you can choose the appropriate strain for your project.

Weed Candy Recipe Essential:  Tincture

The tincture is a highly concentrated extract of potent cannabinoids and other therapeutic cannabis chemicals. It is generally made by grinding your decarboxylated cannabis and putting it into a solvent like grain alcohol (Everclear). The solvent dissolves all of the terpenoids and cannabinoids, then you strain out the plant material. What is left is a concentrated, liquid weed. A simple way to do this is to use The Magical Butter machine, a simple to use an appliance that does the extraction for you.

Here are the steps without The Magical Butter Machine:

  1. Grind:  Choose a high-quality weed, Sativa for stimulation, Indica for relaxation. See our strain list and choose from one of the quality strains listed here: https://leaf.expert/strain
  2. Decarboxylate: Heat your weed at 255 F for 30 mins to activate the cannabinoids.
  3. Put your weed into a jar containing the alcohol solvent Everclear. It will stay here until it reaches the desired potency. This can take 2 to 4 weeks.
  4. Strain out the plant material with cheesecloth and keep your concentrated weed liquid. You can also evaporate out some of the alcohol to make it more potent according to your own preferences.

How to Make Weed Candy Tincture with The Magical Butter Machine

Making tincture can take up to a month the traditional way, but with time comes technology. And for weed enthusiasts, that technology that was sorely needed was The Magical Butter Machine. Just put your Everclear into the machine, put your weed in, push 4-hour tincture, and away you go. It will grind, decarboxylate, and extract the plant medicines and THC from the weed in just 4 hours. Then pour the mixture through the strainer into a dark-colored light and heat resistant container. The fluid will be hot. But in just those few steps, you have your tincture made. You’re ready to make candies. Remember how much weed you have used, because that will determine the strength of the tincture or of the resultant candies.

Cannabis Candies: Lollipops

Weed Candy

Ingredients and Equipment:

  • Cannabis Tincture
  • Lollipop sticks
  • Lollipop Mold
  • Candy thermometer
  • 1 cup of natural sugar
  • Half cup of corn syrup
  • One-fourth cup of clean-filtered water
  • Citrus flavoring

Steps:

  1. Now, combine your cup of natural sugar, half cup of corn syrup, and one-fourth cup of clean-filtered water in a saucepan. Turn heat to medium and dissolve all the sugar by stirring.
  2. Bring to boil.
  3. Once boiling takes the temperature with your candy thermometer, till it reaches 300 F.
  4. Take it away from the heating source with thermometer still reading.
  5. Wait till it cools to 250 F, then stir in your cannabis tincture, and citrus flavoring. If the tincture is alcohol-based, be sure it is not exposed to flames or other fire sources.
  6. Pour the mixture into your lollipop molds and insert your lollipop sticks.
  7. Allow to cool completely, for over 20 minutes and you’re done!

Your lollipops will be as strong as the amount of tincture you have used, divided by the number of lollipops. So, be aware of the strength of your tincture (how much weed you used to make it), and, test out your lollipops by having just one, and waiting two hours or more for the effects.

Cannabis Chocolate

Here’s what you’ll need:

  • Candy Mold
  • A hundred grams of chocolate
  • Five grams of weed, ground
  • Bowl, glass or porcelain
  • Saucepan

This is the easiest recipe for making simple weed chocolate. With this recipe, you can use cannabis ground finely or your cannabis tincture. Here, we are going to finely grind our weed the decarboxylate it by placing it in the oven at 120 degrees for about 30 minutes. While the weed is decarboxylating, we can melt our chocolate using steam. We are going to put the chocolate in the glass or porcelain bowl, then put water in the saucepan and bring it to a boil.   Set the bowl over the boiling water so that it doesn’t touch the water by using a bowl big enough to sit on top of the saucepan so that you can melt the chocolate gently with steam. Now, stir in the cannabis which has been finely ground and decarboxylated. Mix it in well, then pour it into your candy molds, being sure to note how much weed you’ve used, 5 grams, and how many candies you have made. Test the strength of eating a small piece and waiting 45 minutes to 2 hours for the effects.

Cannabis Gummy Bears

Here’s what you’ll need:

  1. Gummy bear molds
  2. Saucepan
  3. Spatula
  4. Whisk
  5. Measuring glass
  6. One ounce of tincture
  7. Three tablespoons of honey
  8. Pinch of salt
  9. 5 tablespoons of gelatin
  10. A cup of fruit juice

Bring your fruit juice, and honey with a pinch of salt to a boil then whisk in the gelatin and stir for up to five minutes so that everything mixes together. Then add your ounce of tincture and stir it in. Next, use a spoon or other tool to transfer the hot liquid into your gummy bear molds. Put your molds into the refrigerator for at least 15 minutes. When your gummies have hardened, just transfer them into an air-tight container of your choice. Test out one gummy by trying one and noting the effects over 45 minutes to two hours. Be smart to avoid overdosing.

Dosing and Testing

If you’re not careful, you can overdose on homemade candies and have an awful ride ahead of you. So, you should always be aware of how much weed you have used and how much THC went into it. It’s a good idea to label your tinctures according to THC content. A simple way to do it is to count bowls, how many bowls have gone into making your tincture and subsequent candies. A bowl is about one gram of weed. However, many grams of weed you have used, that’s how many bowls are in your tincture. You may have 50 grams of weed in 50 gummies, in which case, each gummy is a bowl. Each bowl would have around 100 mg of THC, so to get about 10 mg of THC per gummy, you would want to spread that over as much as 500 gummies. So, however many bowls you are accustomed to smoking, that’s also how many gummies you can tolerate. It is important to do your own research and calculations for your particular candies and tincture or oil. The main thing to remember is how much weed did you use overall, and then how many candies did you divide that into, and that will always give you an idea of the strength of the candies.

You should also always test your edibles to determine the strength. Eat just a small piece and note the taste and potency by waiting 45 minutes to 2 hours. If at 45 minutes, the buzz is strong, do not dose again. Just ride it out until the euphoria and high come down completely and see how long that takes. Then you will know how strong each gummy is, and how long you should wait before redosing. You will also know how many to take for different activities for example for pain relief and preparing for sleep. You should also note the characteristics of the strain you have chosen so that you can use this knowledge in the future to make gummies and other edibles. Edibles dissolve in the stomach at different rates, releasing their cannabinoids at different frequencies, and this fact will determine what strain and type of edible you will want to use for different activities.

This article about Medical Marijuana was published on and updated on October 27, 2022 . Medical facts in this article was checked and article was medically reviewed by our . Author of this checked article is
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Seymoorefrog said:

You don’t say how much tincture you used in the candy recipe. How much?

Gnomist said:

Yes please clarify this issue as you clarify the butter!

Jonas said:

The only issue with the chemistry of the hard candy recipe, is that when you add the alcohol tincture to the candy base at 250 degrees, the tincture changes the composition of the candy, and the candy will not set up correctly and turns out gooey. I will attempt to boil out more of the alcohol from the tincture next time in hopes that it will not have this effect, but any other advice in regards to this issue would be fantastic.

Veronica said:

I have a magic butter machine. Will this cook out enough of the alcohol in the tincture so the hard candies will set?

ken said:

no it will not take tincture and cook it till theres no bubbles its just like a black tar looking subtenancy
add that to your candy mix and there you have some real poten hard candy depending on the thc of that strain

Dee said:

What is the ratio of decarboxylate weed to Everclear?

Mike So said:

When cooking sugar that high the alcohol will burn off leaving only weed infusion. The alcohol has nothing to do with how it sets it matters if you have a lot of moisture in your house at the time it sets up. Make sure you follow the ingredients to a t if your off at all on the ratios the product won’t set up or come out right. I used this recipe with 1/3 cup tincture. My tincture I use ratio is 1.5 oz trim decarbed in 400 ml everclear. It’s fire. I have made over 1000 lollipops in the past 8 months and they never come out gooey

Ashley Gnass said:

How many lollipops does this recipe generally yield?

Debra said:

I make oil infused pot. it slow simmers in crock pot 12 hours. I use to make all types of edible snacks for my self. Lately I’ve been into gummy candy. I’ve made a dozen batches or so and lately I find that once I remove from silicon molds, the oil has settled to the bottom of each candy. What can I add or do to keep this from happening.

Mark Divoky said:

Lecithin (available is most health food stores as a food additive). It emulsifies fats (allows them to mix better)

Bekah said:

Tell me more about your oil infused pot, in the crockpot!! Please and thank you 🙂 Bekah

Ceal said:

Could you text me your crock pot recepie? Thank you!

Shirley said:

I want to use my crockpot to make butter can someone please give me a recipe

Bootz said:

Can you please let me know if you can decarb in the crock pot also. I don’t see why it would be any different than doing it in the Ardent Nova. Sometimes I only want to use 7 grams of bud. The machine only makes 14 grams or more. Thank you

Gail said:

I’m new to making gummies, my question is
Can vodka be used instead of everclear?
Unclear on amount of weed/ everclear or vodka

Dawn said:

No I can not as the proof is not high enough.

CLAIRE said:

PLEASE DO NOT SERVE THESE RECIPES FOR KIDS WHEN THEY TRICK OR TREAT. You are a monster, disgrace, and an overall horrible person if you think thats okay. PERIOD

Karla said:

Why would you waste weed giving them to kids?

Theresa said:

Right, and because medical Marijuana we Also give kids Alcohol! That makes perfect sense. But, I am sure you drink, and take alcoholic beverages to places to celebrates when there are kids there. Hmmmm, think about that for a moment would you? Do you have wine or beer in front of them?

Gordon said:

Any reason my gummies would “sweat” inside the airtight box? I put it in the refrigerator, so would that cause them to do that?

Isaish said:

If you put them in the fridge when they are warm at all that can happen. Sometimes even if they aren’t warm they’ll do it a bit. Put a shot glass with rice in it in the box if you have to put them in the fridge. You can also toss them in a bowl with some finely ground sugar that will absorb some of the moisture from the candy. Hope this helps.

Ps- I’m new here and just want to say hello to everyone:)

Enjoy your THCandy!

Fran said:

Is there anything you can do with the herb after straining tincture or is it just trash?

Salvador Alvarez said:

I have a question how many gummi bears does the recipe yeild? I only want to ask because i want to make alot for a party i am having and need to order supplies.

Sameer Jobanputra said:

If you OD, you can have a CBD dominant strain or CBD only to bring you down, as CBD has anti-psychotic effects.

michele said:

If you get too high eat citrus!

Bootz said:

It would be smart to check what terpenes are dominant in the bud you’re using. I’m not sure about citrus but I’ve read many times to eat a mango 1/2 hr. Before ingesting most edibles.This may enhance the intensity of the high for that reason. With all the information we now have available to us it’s really smart to do your homework on the terpenes. I studied them and made certain recipes for different issues it’s amazing how terpenes sometimes can be more important then the actual strength! Not sure if it answered your question but I hope it helps people especially who are sick with illnesses like Ms, and all the sub illnesses that go with it. may all your Edibles be what you hope them to be. I prefer couch lock and the body high.

Nicola Walker said:

Hi I want to try and make lollipops, I have oil, can I just add this to the mixture? You know how it says to add the cannabis solution into the sugar etc would adding oil instead work the same

Heather said:

My gummies melted do I need to add more gelatin?

Norm burns said:

How do I make. SPICE DROPS

Nicholas L Berger said:

Just an f.y.i., the magical butter machine DOES NOT get hot enough to decarboxylate Cannabis. You’re going to have to decarb it first in the oven at around 250°F for around 30 minutes.

N. Wilkes said:

Purchased Canna Nectar 500mg. I want to make gummies with it. Need direction. I’d like to make 100 gummies…any help would be appreciated.

Lana said:

Suckers/candy
Recipe doesn’t state how much tincture?

Or how many cups of liquid candy this yields?

Thanks

Terry Roofe said:

Does it keep the alcohol flavor?