While cake-heavy strains have lost the spotlight they once had, the genetics still have a dedicated following, me included. I recently stopped at Curaleaf Deerfield and picked up an eighth of Grassroots’ new cut of Animal Mint Cake to review.

Animal Mint Cake is a hybrid cross of Animal Cookies and Wedding Cake. This batch of flower tested at 0.117% CBDa, 0.318% THC, 28.5% THC, and 30.8% total cannabinoids.

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Four uniformly-sized-cola were pointed at the top with flat bottoms. The color was wide ranging with turf, lime, and darker forest green blending beneath lilac purple sugar leaf pieces, and bunched, thick fire-orange hairs. Large capitate trichomes were solidly milky and visible on the surface with the naked eye. The buds were dense with essentially no give when squeezed but a sticky interior left a tacky feeling on my fingers.

The aroma was complex with a blend of sweet mint, jasmine, celery seed, and lime zest hitting the nose first. Warmer tones of fresh popcorn, warm cinnamon, cedar wood, and buttercream frosting followed. The sweet mint dominated the flavor profile, taking up the inhale and masking the more delicate jasmine and lime. Cinnamon and cedar carried through on the exhale.

Heavier than the simple hybrid label led me to believe, Animal Mint Cake quickly induced a heavy wave of full-body pressure that warmed my muscles for a true weighted blanket sensation. The mental effect profile provided a much more “hybrid” profile with a calm, collected, clearheaded state that persisted longer than the physical effects. The physical heaviness paired with the anti-anxiety headspace was best fit as an end of day relaxer.

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