Are you looking for a shelf-stable edible creation you can take with you on the go? Convenient and discreet, these lollipops are the perfect way to medicate anywhere at any time. They are completely customizable with your choice of flavor and color. Keep reading to find out how to make these suckers with an alcohol-based cannabis tincture or cannabis sugar.
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- A simple five-ingredient recipe
- Fully customizable with your choice of flavors and colors
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Why You Will Love This Recipe
Lollipops are a classic treat for anyone with a sweet tooth.
So, why not upgrade them with the incredible healing compounds of cannabis while also being able to customize the flavor and taste to your liking fully?
This cannabis candy is the tasty, sweet, and crunchy lollipop of your dreams, and it’s made with only five simple ingredients.
Whether it’s to relax at the end of the day or to help tame the unwanted symptoms of a medical condition, my Well With Cannabis Community members are always looking for different ways to make fun edibles that are easy to take on the go.
They asked I listened, and voila the cannabis lollipop was born. However, there are many things to know before making lollipops for the first time.
This post will explore how to make cannabis lollipops with the exact recipe, easiest method, expert tips, and fully answered FAQs. Enjoy!
What You’ll Need
- 1 cup granulated sugar: This is required to add sweetness to the lollipop. You could use cannabis sugar here for your infusion option if you don’t want to use a tincture.
- ⅓ cup lite corn syrup: This ingredient is necessary for this recipe; I do not have a substitution recommendation. You can find this at the grocery store.
- 6 Tablespoons water
- 2 Tablespoons alcohol-based cannabis tincture: This ingredient is what infuses this recipe. This needs to be an alcohol-based tincture; it cannot be an oil-based tincture. Choose from your choice of a Green dragon or Golden dragon tincture. Learn more about the difference here.
- 5-10 drops of food coloring: Use fun and creative color combinations. You can use all-natural food coloring if desired.
- ½ LorAnn flavoring oil: Customize this to whatever you like! Strawberry lime? Sounds great! Coconut pineapple? Totally doable. Choose from these flavoring options here.
Note: The recipe card below has a complete list of ingredients with amounts and printable instructions.
Step-by-Step Instructions
- Step 1 – Calibrate your thermometer and prepare your workstation ahead of time. Put the molds on a baking tray and the sticks in the molds. This is very important. This entire process can be tricky to work with as the sugar heats up and hardens very quickly.
- Step 2 – Add the sugar, corn syrup, and water to a medium saucepan over medium-high heat on your heat source of choice. Stir with a silicone or metal spoon until the sugar dissolves.
- Step 3 – Attach the candy thermometer, ensuring the bottom does not touch the pan.
- Step 4 – Allow the mixture to come to a boil while keeping a close eye on it. Do not stir.
- Step 5 – If sugar crystals form on the sides of the pan, wash them down with a silicone or wet pastry brush.
- Step 6 – Continue to cook until the temperature reaches 260°F.
- Step 7 – Without stirring, drop in your desired amount of food coloring.
- Step 8 – When the hard crack temperature of 300°F is reached, remove from the heat. When boiling has ceased, add in your flavoring
- Step 9 – Here comes the tricky part. Carefully pour the liquid candy mixture into molds and put the lollipop sticks in place.
- Step 10 – If there is extra, pour it on parchment paper to make easy weed candies. Work fast as the temperature drops quickly. Let cool completely.
- Step 11 – Once cool, wrap the lollipops in bags and secure them with twist ties. Congrats, you just made your own lollipops!
- Step 12 – Now it’s time to enjoy! If you don’t enjoy this lollipops recipe today, store them in a dry space at room temperature.
Note: complete step-by-step printable instructions are located in the recipe card below.
Storage Instructions
The most effective way to store these delicious weed lollipops is to wrap each sucker individually.
Store them in an airtight container in a cool spot in your pantry for up to several months.
There should be little to no weed smell this way. Do not refrigerate at any time.
Notes and Expert Tips
- Be prepared to work quickly. Your best bet for a successful outcome is having all your ingredients and tools ready to go BEFORE starting the cooking process.
- Get a candy thermometer and calibrate it first to degrees Fahrenheit. It is very important to have accurate temperature controls in this recipe, especially for monitoring the boiling point and reaching the hard crack stage of the sugar.
- This process is sticky and once cooled, the hardened sugar will leave little hard candy trails and be very difficult to get off of your pan and utensils. The easiest way to clean them is to soak them in hot, soapy water until all of the stubborn hard candy has dissolved.
- Be sure to dose your cannabis edibles appropriately. Too much of the psychoactive cannabis ingredient, THC, can make you feel unwell. While this is many people’s favorite way of consumption, it is important to take caution with this cannabis preparation method.
How to Make Customizable Cannabis Lollipops
Ingredients
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ⅓ cup light corn syrup
- 6 Tablespoons water
- 2 Tablespoons cannabis alcohol tincture
- 5-10 drops food coloring
- ½ teaspoon LorAnn flavoring oil
Instructions
- It is important to calibrate your candy thermometer and prepare your workstation ahead of time, before starting the cooking process. I recommend you put the lollipop molds on a baking tray and add the sticks to the molds. This is very important because the recipe can be tricky to work with as the sugar heats up and hardens very quickly.
- Add the sugar, corn syrup, water, and tincture to a heavy-duty 1-quart saucepan. Place over medium heat and then stir until the sugar dissolves.
- Attach the candy thermometer to the side of the pan, ensuring the bottom of the thermometer does not touch the bottom of the pan.
- Allow the mixture to come to a boil. Do not stir. If sugar crystals form on the sides of the pan, wash them down with a wet silicone brush.
- Continue to allow the mixture to cook until the temperature reaches 260°F.
- Without stirring, drop in your desired amount of food coloring (2-5 drops). Continue to allow the mixture to cook, watching the temperature carefully.
- When the temperature reaches exactly 300°F, remove the pan from the heat. When the boiling has ceased, add in your flavoring. Be careful when pouring this into the hot sugar, rising steam may cause burns.
- Carefully pour the mixture into molds and put the lollipop sticks in place. If there is extra, pour it onto parchment paper for candy. Let cool completely.
- Once cool, wrap the lollipops in bags and secure them with twist ties.
- Enjoy! Store in a cool, dry place if not enjoyed immediately.
Notes
Nutrition
Frequently Asked Questions
You can use either the Green Dragon or the Golden Dragon recipes. If you make a CBD-dominant tincture, you can make CBD lollipops. You can get CBD flowers from my online store.
No, this is the main ingredient, and you need it for this recipe to turn out correctly.
No, it is not a good idea to try and use cannabis oil in this recipe. Regardless of whether it is CBD oil or THC oil, the recipe won’t set right.
Wrap each candy individually in plastic. See the picture above for an example.
You can use any shapes or molds that you’d like; just be sure they’re silicone! I found mine here on Amazon. They also have cannabis lollipop molds. Your local store like Walmart, Target, and Michael’s, should have molds as well.
You sure can! Adding edible flowers like rose petals is a perfect way to jazz up these easy THC lollipops recipes. Just be sure to work quickly when adding them in with the hot candy. Just note that some people may find the whole plant material unpleasant at the end.
Each candy mold holds a different volume, so your final dosage will depend on that. This recipe makes 12 ounces. If your candy mold holds one ounce each, you will get 12 servings from this recipe. You then want to ask yourself how many mg of THC you want in your own lollipops as a single dose. If you wanted each sucker to have 5mg of THC, you would want to add 60mg of THC through the tincture. How much THC should you add? That depends on your own personal tolerance. Estimating the potency of any homemade weed edibles will always be a guess, but my edible dosage calculator can help.
Yes! You do not need to make lollipops with this simple recipe. This process is one of the main methods for making hard candies.
Many people worry that the 300°F temperature will harm the THC, but thankfully it won’t. THC won’t boil until 315° and vaporizes at much higher temperatures. The temperature will not affect the potency of this recipe.
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Could I use Honey instead of sugar in this recipe? Would I just subsitute the sugar quantity for honey?
Thanks
Hey Paula! I haven’t tried it myself, and I don’t know if honey will have the same “hard-crack” properties that sugar does to make the lollipops solid. If you try, I would use the same amount (but I would also try a virgin batch first to ensure it works out!). Let us know if you are successful 🙂
This recipe is perfect, thank you! Lollipops turned out spectacular and it was super easy.
Awesome, I am so happy to hear this recipe worked out for you so well, Carissa! Thanks for the feedback!
Does the higher temperature of 300 degrees degrade the strength of the cannabis any? I was thinking I read somewhere it shouldn’t to go over 250.
Hey Robyn! I haven’t ran into any issues with this recipe yet. I believe that the temperature at 300°F is not held long enough to degrade any of the cannabinoids 🙂
Hi Emily, would you happen to have a sugar free recipe for this lollipop recipe? My husband is a diabetic and I would like to make him these.
Thanks
Hey Jackie! I don’t at this time, but will keep my eye out for a sugar-free option to suggest in the future.
Hello! I’ve used your recipe once before and they turned out wonderfully! About the double boiler listed in the equipment… at what point do I use the double boiler? The instructions only state to use a saucepan. Thanks for what you do ?!
Thanks so much for catching that, Nicole! I just updated the list to remove the double boiler and added the saucepan instead 🙂