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Comparison

Ice Cream Cake vs Lava Cake

The two share a name ending and one distant ancestor: Lava Cake is Thin Mint GSC × Grape Pie, and Thin Mint GSC is also a parent of Gelato #33, Ice Cream Cake’s Gelato side.1,2 Leafly rates both mostly calming; in state labs Lava Cake tests lower: 20.00% median THC against 22.17% for Ice Cream Cake.1,3,4

Side by side

Ice Cream CakeLava Cake
TypeIndica-dominant hybrid per Leafly; indica per Weedmaps3,5Indica-leaning hybrid; mostly calming1
LineageWedding Cake × Gelato #33, Seed Junky Genetics3,6Thin Mint GSC × Grape Pie1
Median THC (state lab tests)22.17% (2,489 tests)20.00% (535 tests)
Middle half of THC results19.85%–24.70%18.01%–22.57%
Top terpenes (median)β-Caryophyllene, Limonene, β-Myrcene (753 tests)β-Caryophyllene, β-Myrcene, Linalool (366 tests)
Leafly’s top effectsSleepy, relaxed, hungry3Relaxed, sleepy, tingly1
FlavorVanilla, butter, pepper3Pepper, mint, vanilla1
Leafly THC listing22%322%1

Lab rows come from the same state lab dataset and matching rules for both strains.4

Lab-tested THC: Ice Cream Cake vs Lava Cake

18% 20% 22% 24% 26% Ice Cream Cake Ice Cream Cake: median 22.17%, middle half 19.85%–24.70%, 2,489 tests 22.2% n=2,489 Lava Cake Lava Cake: median 20.00%, middle half 18.01%–22.57%, 535 tests 20.0% n=535 Median total THC (dot) and middle half of tests (bar)
Median and middle half of total THC in state lab tests.4

Its own site

Lava Cake has its own guide in the Official Cannabis network at lavacakestrain.com.

Which is easier to find

On Oct 4, 2026, 69 stores within 50 miles of Los Angeles listed Ice Cream Cake flower on Weedmaps, against 8 stores for Lava Cake; around New York the counts were 84 and 0.7

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Sources

  1. Leafly, Lava Cake strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  2. Leafly, Gelato #33 (aka Gelato Kush) strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  3. Leafly, Ice Cream Cake strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  4. Cannlytics (CC BY 4.0), cannabis_results: public state lab results (filtered and aggregated by Official Cannabis). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  5. Weedmaps, Ice Cream Cake (aka Cake’n Cream) strain page. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  6. High Times, 20 trending strains (Ab Hanna) (2019-09-19). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  7. Weedmaps listings, compiled by Official Cannabis, Weedmaps flower menu snapshot, 27 US markets, Oct 4, 2026. Accessed Oct 4, 2026. Latest capture Oct 4, 2026.