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Comparison

Ice Cream Cake vs Runtz Cake

Runtz Cake is a half-sibling: Leafly lists it as Wedding Cake × White Runtz from an unknown breeder, where Ice Cream Cake is Wedding Cake × Gelato #33 from Seed Junky.1,2 Its lab sample is small: 20.00% median THC across 51 tests, all from one state and one lab, against 22.17% for Ice Cream Cake (2,489).3

Side by side

Ice Cream CakeRuntz Cake
TypeIndica-dominant hybrid per Leafly; indica per Weedmaps2,4Hybrid; more calming than energizing1
LineageWedding Cake × Gelato #33, Seed Junky Genetics2,5Wedding Cake × White Runtz; breeder unknown1
Median THC (state lab tests)22.17% (2,489 tests)20.00% (51 tests); small sample
Middle half of THC results19.85%–24.70%19.00%–21.00%
Top terpenes (median)β-Caryophyllene, Limonene, β-Myrcene (753 tests)Too few tests report individual terpenes
Leafly’s top effectsSleepy, relaxed, hungry2Relaxed, euphoric, giggly1
FlavorVanilla, butter, pepper2Flowery, vanilla, diesel1
Leafly THC listing22%218%1

Lab rows come from the same state lab dataset and matching rules for both strains.3

Lab-tested THC: Ice Cream Cake vs Runtz 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 Runtz Cake Runtz Cake: median 20.00%, middle half 19.00%–21.00%, 51 tests 20.0% n=51 Median total THC (dot) and middle half of tests (bar)
Median and middle half of total THC in state lab tests. Small sample: Runtz Cake has only 51 tests.3

The same wave

Leafly’s review of the 2021 harvest named Ice Cream Cake among the year’s best strains and pointed readers to Runtz Cake among the other Cake strains of 2021.6 Runtz Cake has its own guide in the Official Cannabis network at runtzcake.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 7 stores for Runtz Cake; around New York the counts were 84 and 0.7

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Sources

  1. Leafly, Runtz Cake strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  2. Leafly, Ice Cream Cake strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  3. Cannlytics (CC BY 4.0), cannabis_results: public state lab results (filtered and aggregated by Official Cannabis). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  4. Weedmaps, Ice Cream Cake (aka Cake’n Cream) strain page. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  5. High Times, 20 trending strains (Ab Hanna) (2019-09-19). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  6. Leafly, 11 best cannabis strains of the 2021 harvest (David Downs) (2021-10-19). 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.