Ice Cream Cake Strain: Gelato #33 x Wedding Cake, Explained

What is the Ice Cream Cake strain?

Ice Cream Cake is an indica-dominant dessert cultivar built from two of the most recognizable names in modern cannabis breeding. Our product listing classifies it as a 75/25 indica-dominant hybrid and names the cross as Gelato #33 crossed with Wedding Cake. It sits in our Indoor tier, and the batch behind the figures on this page, Ice Cream Cake (Indoor) THCA Flower, tested at 27.8% THCA. Ice Cream Cake is sourced from a cultivation partner using controlled indoor cultivation. Black Tie does not cultivate flower itself.

The lineage is where this one earns a closer look.

The cross: Gelato #33 and Wedding Cake

Both parents are recorded crosses in their own right, which is worth a minute before the batch figures.

Gelato #33, sometimes called Larry Bird, is a Cookies-family selection widely recorded as Sunset Sherbet crossed with a Thin Mint cut of Girl Scout Cookies, and generally attributed to Sherbinskis. Wedding Cake, which also circulates as Pink Cookies and as Triangle Mints #23, is most often recorded as Triangle Kush crossed with Animal Mints and attributed to Seed Junky Genetics. The SeedFinder entry for Ice Cream Cake records the Seed Junky version as believed to be that cross, and notes that Larry Bird is the same thing as Gelato #33.

Both parents are themselves recorded crosses rather than stable old lines, and both are commonly associated with dessert-leaning profiles. Beyond that, assigning this batch’s particular vanilla or batter notes to one parent rather than the other would go beyond what the lineage records can establish, and the records thin out quickly past the immediate parents named above.

More than one breeder uses this name

Worth knowing, because it is the reason you will find conflicting information about Ice Cream Cake elsewhere.

SeedFinder records the Seed Junky version as the Wedding Cake and Gelato #33 cross described above, and separately records another Ice Cream Cake bred by Mad Scientist Genetics said to descend from different parents entirely. They are different plants sharing a name.

The one our listing describes is the Gelato #33 and Wedding Cake cross. If you have read a lineage for Ice Cream Cake somewhere that does not match this page, a different breeder’s version is the likeliest explanation.

Two further caveats worth stating rather than glossing over. Our listing gives the order as Gelato #33 x Wedding Cake, while most published databases record it the other way round, as Wedding Cake x Gelato #33. The parents are the same either way, and the order tells you which plant was the pollen donor, which nobody outside the breeding project can verify. And the deeper you go into the Cookies family, the more the records rely on breeder claims rather than documentation, so we have stopped at the generation where the accounts agree.

If the Cookies side of the family is what interests you, Lemon Cherry Gelato is the cut on our shelf where that lineage is currently represented.

Vanilla, dough and a gassy back end

Our listing opens on creamy vanilla, sweet dough, nutty diesel and light spice, and describes the jar as layers of vanilla frosting and nutty cookie dough over a creamy back end.

On the palate the listing reports a velvety smoke of sweet vanilla, roasted almond and doughy cake batter, closing on a smooth exhale with a hint of gas. That gas note is the part people tend not to expect from a strain named after a dessert, and it is what keeps the profile from reading as one-dimensionally sweet.

The report behind this batch is a cannabinoid potency analysis, which means we have no measured terpene percentages to set against any of those notes. Everything above comes from our product listing rather than from a laboratory panel, and the two are marked apart on purpose.

Is Ice Cream Cake indica or sativa?

Our listing classifies Ice Cream Cake as an indica-dominant hybrid at roughly 75/25, with evening or nighttime given as the preferred time of use. The product tags carry both “Dessert Strain” and “Evening Strain”, which is a fair summary of where it sits.

Worth repeating what applies to every one of these ratios: it comes from the listing, not from the certificate. A COA measures the mass of specific compounds in the flower. No laboratory test reports whether a cultivar leans indica or sativa, and no analytical method produces a number like 75/25. Those splits describe how a cut is commonly characterized. We have set out how the indica, sativa and hybrid labels actually work if you want the longer version.

What the certificate shows

The batch behind this page was tested by Pinnacle Analytics of Medford, Oregon, from a sample taken on 3 December 2025 and reported on 4 December 2025. The Certificate of Analysis is linked from the product page.

Product details (from our product listing, not the COA): Indoor tier · indica-dominant hybrid at roughly 75/25 · high density · evening or nighttime.

Three things to notice on that report.

The CBG row is filled, which is not always the case. CBG is a minor cannabinoid that is often reported as not detected. On this batch it was measured at 0.853%. That is a measurement of what was in the sample, and the report supports nothing past it.

THCA and Total THC are both correct and they are not the same measurement. THCA is the acid form present in the flower as it was submitted. Total THC is the calculated potential Total THC after decarboxylation rather than a separate laboratory measurement, derived with the 0.877 conversion factor printed on the report itself, which is the proportion of mass the molecule retains when its carboxyl group comes off. We walk through both numbers in how to read a THC or THCA lab test.

This is a potency report and nothing more. There are no terpene, pesticide, heavy metal, solvent or microbial results on it. Full Panel testing is the standard for Black Tie's Exotic tier, but testing scope can vary by batch. Each product page links the current COA and identifies the analyses completed for that sample. This batch did not receive one. If a full safety panel is part of how you choose, our lab results page sets out what is published across the catalog.

How the batch was described

Our listing describes resin-glazed nugs in rich forest green with purple marbling and thick trichome layering, and calls the density high.

Black Tie’s current batch is described as an evening cultivar, body-led, with evening or nighttime named as the preferred time of use. Individual experiences vary, and nothing on the certificate predicts how a given person will find this flower.

On batch dates, and why we print them

The certificate behind the figures above is dated December 2025, and we have put that date beside the numbers rather than leaving it off. There is a second Ice Cream Cake product in our catalog, a Greenhouse version, which carries its own batch, its own certificate and its own harvest date of September 2025.

Flower is an agricultural product, and a certificate describes one batch at one moment. When a cut returns with a new batch the figures on this page get replaced rather than quietly left to drift. This article records the batch reviewed at publication. For the latest potency, harvest date and availability, review the product page and its linked COA.

Other cuts in the same family

Two cuts carry the same kind of sweet, baked character:

• Lemon Cherry Gelato (Exotic) THCA Flower for the Cookies-family dessert profile with citrus running through it, in our Exotic tier.
• Blueberry Pancakes (Indoor) THCA Flower if the batter-and-sweetness side is the appeal, and we have written that one up in full in our Blueberry Pancakes buyer's guide.

Other Ice Cream Cake Products at Black Tie

The name appears on more than one tier, and each one is its own batch with its own certificate.

• Ice Cream Cake (Indoor) THCA Flower is the batch this article reports.
• Ice Cream Cake (Greenhouse) THCA Flower is the same cultivar from our Greenhouse tier, with its own harvest date and its own figures.

Reading the two side by side is the clearest way to see what a cultivation tier changes and what it does not. The genetics are the same; the batch results are not.

Where to buy Ice Cream Cake THCA flower

Ice Cream Cake (Indoor) THCA Flower sits in our Indoor tier, and a Greenhouse version appears in the catalog on its own batch and certificate. The product pages show current sizes, batch details and availability.

Shipping is restricted in some states, and our shipping policy lists where we can and cannot send flower. For the wider shelf, the THCA flower collection is the place to browse, and our indica THCA flower narrows it to the evening end.

Ice Cream Cake FAQs

What strain is Ice Cream Cake a cross of?

Our listing names Gelato #33 crossed with Wedding Cake. Published databases usually give the same two parents in the opposite order. Both are themselves recorded crosses, and the two names above are the parentage the records actually establish.

Why do other sites give Ice Cream Cake a different lineage?

Because more than one breeder uses the name. SeedFinder records the Seed Junky version as the Wedding Cake and Gelato #33 cross, and a separate Ice Cream Cake from Mad Scientist Genetics with different parents. The one our listing describes is the first.

Is Ice Cream Cake indica or sativa?

Our listing classifies it as an indica-dominant hybrid at roughly 75/25, with evening or nighttime as the preferred time of use. That is a listing classification, not a laboratory measurement.

How strong is Ice Cream Cake?

The batch behind this page measured 27.8% THCA, with Total THC calculating to 24.6%. Batches of the same cultivar vary, so the product page carries the current figures.

What does Ice Cream Cake weed taste like?

Our listing reports sweet vanilla, roasted almond and doughy cake batter, with a gassy note on the exhale that cuts the sweetness.

Was this batch full panel tested?

No. The Pinnacle Analytics report covers cannabinoid potency only. There are no terpene or safety panel results on it. Full Panel testing is standard on our Exotic tier; Indoor batches do not always receive it.

Is there more than one Ice Cream Cake product?

Yes. There is an Indoor version, which the figures on this page come from, and a Greenhouse version with its own batch and its own certificate. Each product page carries its own current numbers.