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Comparison

Black Cherry Gelato vs Ice Cream Cake

Ice Cream Cake is another cross of a Gelato cut, Wedding Cake × Gelato #33. Leafly rates both strains mostly calming and lists sleepy as Ice Cream Cake’s top effect.1,2 It tests lower in state labs: 22.17% median THC against 23.98% for Black Cherry Gelato.3 By median, Black Cherry Gelato’s leading terpene is limonene and Ice Cream Cake’s is β-caryophyllene.3

Side by side

Black Cherry GelatoIce Cream Cake
TypeHybrid per Leafly; 60% indica per AllBud; indica per Weedmaps2,4,5Indica-dominant hybrid; mostly calming1
LineageAcai (Gelato #49) × Black Cherry Funk2,6Wedding Cake × Gelato #331
Median THC (state lab tests)23.98% (102 tests)22.17% (2,489 tests)
Middle half of THC results21.13%–25.18%19.85%–24.70%
Top terpenes (median)Limonene, Linalool, β-Caryophyllene (78 tests)β-Caryophyllene, Limonene, β-Myrcene (753 tests)
Leafly’s top effectsAroused, hungry, relaxed; mostly calming2Sleepy, relaxed, hungry1
Flavor (Leafly)Apricot, pear, berry2Vanilla, butter, pepper1
FloweringAbout 8–9 weeks (Weedmaps)58–9 weeks1

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

Lab-tested THC: Black Cherry Gelato vs Ice Cream Cake

18% 20% 22% 24% 26% Black Cherry Gelato Black Cherry Gelato: median 23.98%, middle half 21.13%–25.18%, 102 tests 24.0% n=102 Ice Cream Cake Ice Cream Cake: median 22.17%, middle half 19.85%–24.70%, 2,489 tests 22.2% n=2,489 Median total THC (dot) and middle half of tests (bar)
Median and middle half of total THC in state lab tests.3

Its own site

Ice Cream Cake was the best-selling strain in Oregon in Leafly’s 2025 dispensary-order rankings.7 It has its own guide in the Official Cannabis network at icecreamcakestrain.com.

Which is easier to find

On Oct 4, 2026, 44 stores within 50 miles of Los Angeles listed Black Cherry Gelato flower on Weedmaps, against 69 stores for Ice Cream Cake; around New York the counts were 24 and 84.8

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Sources

  1. Leafly, Ice Cream Cake (aka ICC) strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  2. Leafly, Black Cherry Gelato (aka BCG) 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. AllBud, Black Cherry Gelato marijuana strain information and reviews. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  5. Weedmaps, Black Cherry Gelato strain page. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  6. Leafly, Just desserts: the Cookies and Cakes family genealogy (David Downs) (2021-04-15). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  7. Leafly, The best-selling weed strains of 2025 (Morgan Rosendale) (2026-02-02). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  8. 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.