Are you interested in baking with CBD Oil?
If so, you’ve landed on the right page! Here, we’ve assembled the best CBD cake recipes, including a few you won’t find anywhere else. We’ve also put together some tips on cooking with CBD oil that will hopefully make it easy for you to come up with your own CBD oil baking recipes. Baking with CBD is an excellent way to get all the CBD benefits for people who love cake (like we do!) or for people who don’t like the taste of CBD.
We’ll be covering:
- Can you use CBD oil for baking?
- Baking with CBD oil tips
- Our favourite CBD cake recipes.
Scroll down a bit further to see our CBD baking recipes, but first, here are a few tips on making edibles for a fun way to take CBD:
Can you use any CBD oil for baking?
Before we get into the delicious recipes, let's cover the basics - which CBD oil is best for baking? Technically, you can use any CBD oil for baking, but we recommend looking for the following:
- Organic CBD oil to avoid nasty pesticides, toxins and other chemicals.
- Broad-spectrum CBD oil ensures you have the best possible mix of cannabinoids, terpenes and flavonoids in your cakes.
- Avoid flavoured CBD oils as they’ll change the taste of your cake.
- Avoid hempseed oil since, although this is very healthy and great for cooking, it only contains tiny traces of CBD and is unlikely to have the same benefits in terms of your endocannabinoid system.
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How do you Bake with CBD Oil?
Make a CBD butter or equivalent
For effective baking with CBD oil, you need to first bind your CBD with fat. The most common and effective ways to do this are to make CBD butter or CBD coconut oil.
Read more: CBD butter recipe
Remember the ideal CBD baking heat
Another important factor of using CBD in cakes is the temperature you bake at. Heat is important to the decarboxylation process, which makes CBD more effective. However, too much heat will destroy the CBD and mean your CBD cakes will have no positive benefits besides being tasty.
The boiling point of CBD is between 320 and 356 degrees Fahrenheit, or 160 and 180 degrees Celsius. As a result, and to take the difference between various oven dials into account, we’d recommend never going over around 300 degrees Fahrenheit or 150 degrees Celsius.
Vegan baking with CBD oil
Whereas there are plenty of recipe options for vegan cakes with CBD, you can technically make any CBD cake recipe into a vegan one with a few simple substitutions. You can also easily turn any vegan cake recipe you find into a CBD one, as long as it contains vegan butter, coconut oil, or some other oil or fat that can be easily substituted out for one of your CBD fats.
The only ingredients there are to be concerned about are butter, cow’s milk and eggs, which can very easily and readily be switched out for vegan soy margarine, almond milk or soy milk, and vegan egg replacements respectively.
By simply making these switches, or even just using CBD coconut oil instead of CBD butter, any recipe we’ve listed here, or indeed any CBD cake recipe anywhere else, can quickly become vegan.
Read more: Is CBD oil vegan?
4 of the Best CBD Cake Recipes
CBD Chocolate Cake Recipe
This recipe is for a CBD chocolate cake that’s decadent, indulgent, yet light. You can cut it up into individual portions to give you a daily CBD dose or make one to share if your friends are interested in trying CBD for themselves. One thing is for sure - nobody will be turning down this cake!
Ingredients:
- For the cake: 300g dark chocolate, 150g of CBD butter made with unsalted butter, ½ teaspoon of vanilla extract, 100g caster sugar, 5 eggs (not chilled)
- For the topping: 100ml double cream, 200g dark chocolate (ideally high quality)
Method:
- Preheat your oven to 320°F / 160°C.
- Break the chocolate into chunks and add it to a bowl with the CBD butter.
- Set the bowl over a pan of hot (not boiling) water, stirring constantly as the chocolate melts. Avoid letting the bowl touch the water.
- Remove from heat and leave to cool.
- Whisk eggs and vanilla together in a mixing bowl, then add sugar and whisk until smooth and thick (around 4–5 minutes with an electric whisk).
- Pour melted chocolate mixture into egg mixture and blend evenly.
- Pour into a pre-greased baking tin lined with greaseproof paper. Bake for 45–55 minutes, then remove and cool completely.
To make the topping:
- Turn your cake upside down so the flat base faces up.
- Warm the chocolate with double cream using the same bowl-over-water method (only half melt it).
- Stir until smooth and shiny, pour over the cake and let it drip naturally down the sides.
- Leave overnight, then serve.
This recipe can also be used to make CBD cupcakes!
CBD Carrot Cake Recipe
This is one of the best recipes for baking with CBD because it’s relatively healthy and not too sweet — making it ideal for daily use for those who want to enjoy CBD in a tastier way.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- ¼ tsp salt
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 3 full pipettes of Natural CBD Oil
- 2 cups shredded carrots
- 1 cup flaked coconut
- 1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
- 1 cup raisins
For the frosting: 1 cup CBD butter, 1 cup cream cheese, 4 cups icing sugar, 1 tsp vanilla extract.
Method:
- Preheat oven to just under 320°F (160°C).
- Mix baking soda, flour, cinnamon and salt in a bowl.
- In another bowl, combine eggs, buttermilk, CBD butter, sugar and vanilla.
- Combine both mixtures, then stir in coconut, walnuts, raisins and carrots.
- Pour into a greased cake pan and bake for 1 hour.
For the frosting: Beat together butter, icing sugar, cream cheese, and vanilla until smooth. Allow cakes to cool, then spread frosting on top. Slice and serve.
How to make carrot cake even better? Add CBD!
CBD Cupcakes Recipe
This simple recipe makes either 24 smaller cupcakes or 12 larger muffin-sized CBD cupcakes — perfect for dosing CBD precisely while enjoying a delicious treat.
Ingredients:
- 175g CBD butter (unsalted)
- 3 pre-beaten eggs at room temperature
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 175g caster sugar
- 175g self-raising flour
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 2 tbsp milk
For chocolate cupcakes, replace 25g of flour with 3 tbsp cocoa powder.
Method:
- Preheat oven to 320°F / 160°C.
- Mix CBD butter, eggs, vanilla and sugar in a bowl.
- Sieve flour, baking powder, and cocoa (if using) into the bowl.
- Add milk and mix until smooth.
- Spoon into cupcake cases evenly.
- Bake for 15–20 minutes, until cakes spring back when pressed.
- Cool completely before icing or decorating as desired.
Cupcakes are a great way to determine the dosage of CBD in each serving.
CBD Cake Pops Recipe
This recipe is one of the most fun ways to make CBD edibles — easy to portion, decorate, and customise!
Method:
- Bake a simple sponge cake using your favourite recipe or boxed mix.
- Prepare frosting (as in the carrot cake recipe) but replace butter with CBD butter.
- Alternatively, mix store-bought frosting with your desired amount of CBD oil.
- Crumble the cake into a bowl, add frosting, and mix thoroughly.
- Roll into small balls and refrigerate for 2 hours to firm.
- Dip into melted chocolate, icing, or any coating of choice, and decorate.
Experiment with different CBD cake and icing combinations to create your cake pops!
The Verdict on CBD Cakes
In our opinion, CBD cakes are one of the best ways to get your CBD fix. Try one of our recipes, or experiment by adding CBD to your favourite cake recipes. But remember, always use high-quality CBD oil and follow the guidelines we share here.
And, if you have a delicious recipe - send it to us at hello@evopure.co.uk - we'd love to try it out!
