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Learn how to cook with cannabis from award-winning cannabis-infused edibles chefs featured on Netflix and Food Network
Cooking with Cannabis will teach you how to prepare a variety of dishes, from delectable drinks to savory appetizers. Whether you’re a budtender looking to further your cannabis training and education or an aspiring cannabis chef looking for expert instruction, Cooking with Cannabis will take you from kitchen novice to cannabis-infusing master in four weeks.
Join instructor Shannon Donnelly and eight award-winning guest cannabis-infused edibles chefs as they teach you transformative cannabis cooking cannabis techniques that are sure to impress your friends and increase your cannabis edibles marketability in the industry.
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Students in this course develop an in-depth understanding of the preparation, infusion, dosing, and portioning of cannabis in commercially viable cannabis-infused food. The course will cover the various ways cannabis is consumed, the multiple applications of cannabis in food preparation, and the commercial uses of both hemp and cannabis plants in food production. Students will engage in hands-on learning activities to develop their cannabis infusion and culinary skills in dosing and portioning of CBD concentrates and terpene extract in food products.
Cooking with Cannabis runs from April 2 to May 2, 2026. Students must register by April 10.
The four-week course is entirely online and self-paced. You can complete the course anytime within the four weeks the course is available.
The tuition for this course is $475, with a $35 transaction fee. No textbook required!
- Explore the different ways that cannabis can be consumed, understanding how it’s used in cooking and its effects on food.
- Learn how to work with cannabis in various cooking methods, such as infusing it into oils or butter for recipes.
- Understand the basics of the cannabis and hemp plants, including their differences and common uses.
- Identify opportunities for using hemp in cooking and everyday products.
- Tell apart the concepts of dosing (how much cannabis is used overall) and portioning (how it’s divided within a recipe) when preparing dishes.
- Explain how different strains of cannabis contribute to flavors and effects in cooking, connecting the plant’s characteristics to the taste of food.
- Discuss the rules and guidelines related to cooking with cannabis, considering where it’s legal and safe to use.
- Try out more advanced techniques for making cannabis-infused ingredients, like creating tinctures or extracts.
- Create their own simple recipes that balance the taste of cannabis with other flavors in the dish.
- Use basic math skills to measure and adjust the amount of cannabis used in a recipe, ensuring that each serving has a similar amount.
You may request to receive a digital badge that will be embedded with the competencies learned. This badge can be added to your resume, LinkedIn page, portfolio, or even shared with your current or future employer.
Grow your cannabis edibles career without compromise
Cooking with Cannabis is online and self-paced with no hard deadlines, allowing you to learn on a schedule that works for you. In this course, you don’t need to worry about commuting to a classroom or choosing between work and school. Your instructor and guest chefs will cook virtually alongside you throughout nine different online modules covering a wide range of cuisines.
Knowledge and skills you’ll gain in this course
✓ Learn to be a competent chef cooking with cannabis
✓ Understand how to infuse cannabis in many different ways
✓ Discover how cannabis compounds bind to fats and oils, and the chemistry behind infusing butter, oils, and other bases
✓ Gain awareness of current cannabis laws, regulations, and responsible consumption guidelines
✓ Learn to adapt traditional recipes with infused ingredients while balancing flavor and dosage
✓ A deeper understanding of the intersection between culinary arts and cannabis science
Items you’ll need to learn to be a cannabis chef
We recommend you have the correct tools to follow along with your instructor and expert chefs.
2. CBD Isolate
3. Terpenes
Cannabis Cookbook Preview
Gain access to a PDF of the cookbook used in the Cooking with Cannabis online course at MSU Denver.
Get the CookbookMeet your Cooking with Cannabis instructor
Shannon Donnelly, cannabis expert
Shannon Donnelly is an affiliate professor of Cannabis in the School of Hospitality at Metropolitan State University of Denver. She developed a curriculum and started teaching Cannabis classes and courses like Cannabis 101 at the University in January 2022.
Donnelly is recognized as one of the Most Influential Women in Weed by Green Entrepreneurs and a Power Player by Merry Jane. She collaborates with like-minded entrepreneurs to use her 14 years of experience in successful business re-design to create impactful, inclusive, diverse, sustainable, and profitable solutions for the industry.
In 2007, she started her career in Cannabis retail management and has been an influential part of its growth. Donnelly is well known for her hands-on, idea-driven, and insightful approach to business design. As a cannabis specialist, she has worked with executive teams across legalized retail and medical facilities to rebuild operations, cannabis management practices, and training programs in both dispensaries and product manufacturing.
Working across these areas has provided her with a unique perspective of the legal cannabis industry; working with over 20,000 customers and clients has given her an incredible insight into what customers want and need. In addition to consulting work and teaching courses at MSU Denver, she channels her passion into other industry ventures to share the value of botanical product applications. In 2014, she created Health Honeys to make quality CBD products accessible to women and offer them a safe place to experience the natural relief, ease, and restorative properties of botanical ingredients for comprehensive health.
Donnelly received her bachelor’s degree from MSU Denver in land use with a concentration in environment and resources.
