So I'm making medical caramels infused with cannabis. First effort, not so good. Thoughts?

[jtuck004]

(I want to do this without resorting to butane, or maybe even co2, extracts. )

The red cupcakes come out really well, I use coconut oil for those. But the caramels I have seen don't look\taste all that great, so I want to make something that does.

Started with about 12 grams, so I tried a quick water rinse to get some of the chlorophyll out. I used a French press 12 hours @ a time, then poured off the water, refilled. Did that about 7 or 8 times till it came back clear, then put it in a low-temp dehydrator and dried it to about 43% rh, wound up with about 8 grams. Ground it, heated in an oven at 300 F to decarb, and put it in the cream for an hour. Strained that.

To make caramels I bring the sugars (cane, and a cane syrup that I make from organic cane) to about 300ish to color and start some carmelization.

Off to the side I have heavy cream on the burner. I brown about 60 grams of butter, add it to the cream, and then try to get those to a boil about the time the sugars get over 300 F, and pour that in. I bring that up to about 270-80, or just above "hard ball".I add salt in here, and a tsp of vanilla before I pour it into the mold.

I tasted it just before I poured it, too strong a weed taste. I had been playing with making a cinnamon/cardomom caramel, so I added a "Chinese 5 spice" that has star anise, cloves, cinnamon, fennel, pepper.

That overwhelmed it some, but is very heavy, and the weed taste still interferes.

So now I am gonna bubble bag about 40 grams of some ok bud which should give me a gram or two.

I will infuse this into the butter for a couple of hours,then strain and brown that. One of the nice things about that is that I can use water in the butter to wash out the nasties. When the butter solidifies you can pour off the water, then reheat it gently and add more to wash more out. Then I can brown it after that, should be better. We

Lots of people make them strong. I want them to be tasty - low strength, the kind that people don't want to put down.