I am by no means an expert, but I am a pretty good cook/baker. I finished a 1 plant outdoor grow in October. The plant is Angel's Breathe, I got XXz's of bud and Xz's of good trim/popcorn. The bud I properly cured in jars and smells great with the faint scent of mango. The trim was just left on a screen to dry over a weeks time because I wanted to cook with it and did not think it mattered. I decarbed it at 240 degrees for 40 minutes in the oven. I then used 1 cup of coconut oil to extract 1/2 cup of pressed trim using the crockpot/water method over 8 hrs.
I made a peanut butter/oatmeal/coconut cookie using a melon baller for equal dosing. They were very potent, but I could taste the "greenness" of the oil because of the lack of cure. The oil itself had the obvious smell of chlorophyll. My next batch I did the same process as above using the cured bud and it tasted a lot better, but I could still taste and smell the weed. My next batch I did everything else the same, but used "volcano poop" or vaped bud in the same quantity. The cookies turned out awesome with no taste of weed and the small cookie will keep a smile on your face for 4 hours. So now I vape all my buds lightly at 370 degrees which leaves plenty for the oil extraction. The oil now has a sweet smell on its own and I get twice the doses from the same medicine. Talk about win win.
None of this except the cookie recipe is my idea, I just read a lot and learned from others mistakes/success's. The remainder of weed left after the extractions for this or my tinctures gets baked into peanut budder which I use to make doggie biscuits for my elderly K9 companions with bad hips/issues. I used the basic recipe which was posted in this forum for the treats. It honestly works very well on the dogs and can go from pain relief to serious "doggie pillow lock" with the dosage. I just wish I would have had it to help my previous dogs in their final days to ease their pain.
The rest of my trim will be used to make my arthritis balm. The green color works just fine with the emu oil/coconut oil, shea butter, capsicum, menthol and beeswax. The balm is really outstanding and is almost instant in pain relief for muscle aches and joint pains. Sure am glad I discovered my new multi-purpose medicine that even I initially thought was just to get "stoned" with. My PTSD is better and I am a much happier/healthy person. My wife uses the cookies as a aphrodesiac/sleep aid and dogs like the "treats" almost as much as I do.
Some things are too good not to share and I just wanted to say thanks to my "teachers" and am glad to have found this site to learn from. I'm not an expert in anything of this, but wanted to share what has worked for me and my family.