What to Know About Baking with CBD Oil

We always want to ensure our customers know the most up-to-date information on baking with CBD oil. When it comes to baking, the higher temperatures you use, the less effective CBD oil is baked into your treats. At 180 degrees, the terpenes in the oil begin to break down; at 220 degrees, the cannabinoids do the same. We encourage our customers to look at ways to add CBD after baking when things cool down to temperatures that won’t impact the efficacy of using CBD oil.

You may already know and love CBD oil, but did you know you can bake with it? CBD is an abbreviation of Cannabidiol, an extract from the hemp plant.

Baking with CBD Oil: Why Try It?

If you love to bake and you enjoy CBD, it seems natural to want to combine the two. Full spectrum CBD oil‘s rich green flavor can add a robust note to your baking and cooking and, alternatively, adding CBD to foods and beverages can mask the taste for those who prefer a more neutral flavor.

Adding CBD oil to recipes is an easy and fun way to incorporate pure, natural CBD oil into your daily routine. Since CBD oil won’t get you stoned, you can feel free to experiment with adding it to your favorite recipes. Because the FDA hasn’t yet created specific dosing guidelines for CBD, prepared CBD treats and snacks are often unclear as to how much CBD is contained in a single serving.

If you live in an area that doesn’t yet allow cafes and restaurants to serve CBD-infused food, you can always bake your own CBD goodies at home or with a friend.

How to Start Baking with CBD Oil

Begin with What You Know

CBD oil from NuLeaf Naturals can be incorporated into a wide variety of savory and sweet foods, but we find it’s best to start with a recipe you already know and love. This might be as simple as your favorite smoothie or grandma’s no-fail peanut butter cookie recipe.

Start Small and Size Up

One of the biggest mistakes people make when first baking with CBD is adding too much. It’s best to start with a small batch, with a small amount of CBD oil, and then taste and adjust up on the next batch. As a general rule of thumb, substitute 3/4 to 1 teaspoon of CBD oil per serving in place of other oils in the recipe. So if your cake mix calls for 4 tablespoons of vegetable oil for an 8-serving cake, then you would add 6 to 8 teaspoons (approximately 3 to 3 2/3 tablespoons) of CBD oil and the remaining amount (1 to 1 1/3 tablespoon) of regular vegetable oil.

Keep It Low

We recommend keeping the cook temperature at or below 340 degrees Fahrenheit. CBD has a boiling point of 320 to 356 degrees Fahrenheit, which means cooking it at higher temperatures for a long time can reduce your overall benefit by:

• Damaging or destroying the more delicate terpenes in the product
• Causing the CBD oil to evaporate or “cookout”
• Bring more bitterness forward, adversely affecting the flavor

Math It Up

If your goal is to have a specific amount of CBD in each portion, use this simple formula to calculate how much CBD oil to use. Recipe yield x desired amount of CBD per serving = total amount of CBD to use in the recipe. For example, if our earlier example of cake yields 8 services and you’d like each serving to contain 10 mg of CBD, then you’ll want to use a total of 80 mg of CBD.

Have fun and experiment! Remember to store your finished baked goods in a cool, dark place, since CBD oil can be sensitive to light and heat. Click here to order pure CBD oil for baking and more from NuLeaf Naturals.