Birthday Cake

Also known on Leafly as Birthday Cake Kush and Birthday Cake #3, Birthday Cake is the strain behind this flower.

Bred from GSC and Cherry Pie

Leafly traces Birthday Cake to a cross of GSC and Cherry Pie, and calls it an indica-dominant hybrid known for heavy body effects and a sweet, dessert-like flavour; our rundown of seven classic and modern hybrids covers more strains with that label. Animal Cake and Chem Cake, two strains bred from it, appear in Leafly’s genetics data.

Vanilla, butter and a crystalline icing

Leafly describes the buds as blooming with a crystalline icing of THC-rich resin, and its top flavours are vanilla, sweet and butter. One Leafly reviewer found a strong vanilla overtone with subtle marzipan or fruity notes; another, tasting it from a vape pod, found the flavour very herbal, flowery and grassy.

Caryophyllene, which Leafly describes as peppery, is the most abundant terpene in Leafly’s strain data, followed by limonene and myrcene; our limonene explainer looks at the second of those.

Pitched for the end of the day

Leafly describes Birthday Cake as deeply relaxing for the body without clouding the mind, and pitches it as a strain for the end of the day. Its reviewers most often report feeling relaxed and hungry, several call it potent, and one says it is not a daily driver.

THC for Birthday Cake runs around 23% on Leafly, with CBG near 1%, and Leafly’s potency gauge marks it above average. For driving, Health Canada‘s lower-risk guidelines call for a gap of at least 6 hours after any cannabis use.

Notes from a grower

One Leafly reviewer who grew Birthday Cake reports an average yield and a plant that did not get too big for the room. On Leafly, 596 ratings give the strain an average of 4.5.