Gelato Cake

Two weights are offered for this Gelato Cake flower: 14 g and 28 g. The strain crosses Gelato #33 with Wedding Cake, and Leafly describes it as a potent, indica-dominant member of the Cookie family, very popular across North America and beyond.

Gelato #33 on one side, Wedding Cake on the other

Leafly links the creamy berry character to Gelato #33 and the vanilla frosting to Wedding Cake. AllBud gives the same two parents and weighs the result at 75% indica and 25% sativa. Wedding Cake, as our Gelato Cake guide points out, is the strain Leafly says goes by Pink Cookies in Canada.

Vanilla, berries and more gas than expected

Leafly’s top flavours are vanilla, butter and berry, and it says growers choose the strain for its creamy, berry, gassy and vanilla-frosting aromas. AllBud describes sweet and sour creamy vanilla with rich, peppery pine on the exhale, over an aroma it calls surprisingly pungent: a gassy overtone accented by sour citrus and sweet cream. Steven De Guzman, in his tip for our guide, picks up on that gas, more than two dessert parents would lead you to expect, and suggests fresh raspberries and a plain butter cookie alongside.

Leafly reviewers fill in more: one found their batch gassy and creamy with a sweet berry finish, another says it tastes like vanilla cake, and a third calls it surprisingly dank for a double-dessert strain. Dense, grape-shaped Gelato Cake buds, in AllBud’s picture, are dark olive green, crossed by many thin orange hairs, beneath a thick frost of chunky white trichomes. Leafly’s lab-sourced terpene figures put limonene on top, then caryophyllene and pinene, and our guide to limonene explains what that citrus terpene is.

Reported effects and Gelato Cake’s THC

Leafly calls Gelato Cake potent and best for experienced users, describing a full-body effect that can last a few hours and suggesting a relaxing night in with movies; its gauge reads mostly calming. AllBud describes a creeping, relaxing high for late at night, in which euphoria, happiness and ease build slowly, with some creativity, before a body high that ebbs and flows and can end in couch-lock. Leafly shows 20% THC and 1% CBG for the strain and marks the potency above average, while AllBud gives 20% to 25%.

For smoking, Health Canada’s lower-risk page sets a starting point of one or two puffs, using a product at or below 10% THC, and notes that the peak can take half an hour.