Wedding Cake strain guide
Wedding Cake is an indica-leaning hybrid with a dessert-shop smell: sweet vanilla with a peppery, earthy edge. It shot up in popularity in the late 2010s and is now one of the most common cake strains on Canadian shelves, known for a relaxed, happy feel.
Where does Wedding Cake come from?
Wedding Cake's history is a little tangled, and you'll see two lineages listed:
- Triangle Kush and Animal Mints: the cross most often credited to Seed Junky Genetics in California.
- Cherry Pie and Girl Scout Cookies: an older account, under which the strain is also called Pink Cookies.
The Triangle Kush and Animal Mints version is the one most people mean today. Either way, it belongs to the Cookies family, which explains the sweet, doughy smell.
What does Wedding Cake smell and taste like?
Open a bag of Wedding Cake and you get sweet vanilla and something like cake batter, followed by pepper and earth.
Limonene and caryophyllene often top its terpene results: limonene for a little brightness, caryophyllene for the peppery bite. The flavour is rich and sweet, with a slightly tangy finish in some batches.
Wedding Cake effects: what people report
People most often describe Wedding Cake as relaxed and happy, with a heavier body as you have more. Hunger comes up a lot, and it's often mentioned as an evening strain.
Effects vary by product, amount and person, so take these as reports rather than promises. Dry mouth and dry eyes are the usual complaints.
How strong is Wedding Cake?
Wedding Cake is typically strong. Published lab results usually put it around 20% to 25% THC, and some batches go higher, with very little CBD.
That's a lot for newer users, so start small and wait before having more. Check the label: the batch numbers tell you more than the strain's reputation.
Buying Wedding Cake in Canada
Wedding Cake is easy to find in Canada as dried flower and pre-rolls, and it shows up in vapes and concentrates too.
Because cake strains are popular, versions vary a lot. A strong vanilla and pepper smell when you open the package is a good sign.
Wedding Cake vs Ice Cream Cake
Ice Cream Cake is Wedding Cake's offspring, so they share a lot: both are sweet, indica-leaning and strong. Wedding Cake has more pepper and tang behind the vanilla, and people tend to describe it as relaxed but a little lighter. Ice Cream Cake leans creamier and sweeter, and reports skew heavier and sleepier. If you want dessert with some bite, choose Wedding Cake. If you want the creamiest, heaviest version, Ice Cream Cake is the usual pick.
Strains like Wedding Cake
If you like Wedding Cake, try these next:
- Ice Cream Cake: its own offspring, creamier and a bit heavier.
- GMO: another Cookies-family strain, but savoury instead of sweet.
- Pink Kush: shares the vanilla sweetness, with a heavier indica feel.
- OG Kush: more fuel and pine, and less dessert.