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Comparison

Wedding Cake vs Blue Dream

Blue Dream is the strain Wedding Cake chased up the sales charts: Headset ranked them first and second for 2019, and in Leafly’s 2025 orders Blue Dream was #1 and Wedding Cake #3.1,2 Leafly rates Blue Dream mostly energizing and Wedding Cake mostly calming, and Blue Dream tests lower in state labs: 19.96% median THC against 23.01% for Wedding Cake.3,4,5

Side by side

Wedding CakeBlue Dream
TypeIndica-leaning hybrid; Leafly rates it mostly calming4Hybrid; mostly energizing per Leafly3
LineageTriangle Kush × Animal Mints (Triangle Mints #23)4,6Blueberry × Haze3
Median THC (state lab tests)23.01% (3,090 tests)19.96% (2,118 tests)
Middle half of THC results20.25%–25.72%17.62%–22.37%
Top terpenes (median)β-Caryophyllene, Limonene, β-Myrcene (1,388 tests)β-Myrcene, α-Pinene, β-Caryophyllene (483 tests)
Leafly’s top effectsRelaxed, aroused, hungry4Creative, euphoric, happy3
FlavorVanilla, pepper, butter4Berry, blueberry, sweet3
Sales rank, 2019 (Headset)#21#11
Leafly orders, 2025#32#12

Lab rows come from the same state lab dataset and matching rules for both strains.5

Lab-tested THC: Wedding Cake vs Blue Dream

16% 18% 20% 22% 24% 26% Wedding Cake Wedding Cake: median 23.01%, middle half 20.25%–25.72%, 3,090 tests 23.0% n=3,090 Blue Dream Blue Dream: median 19.96%, middle half 17.62%–22.37%, 2,118 tests 20.0% n=2,118 Median total THC (dot) and middle half of tests (bar)
Median and middle half of total THC in state lab tests.5

Rivals on the sales charts

Headset reported in 2020 that Blue Dream started out with the most market share but had recently been overtaken by Wedding Cake.1 In California, Blue Dream was the #1 flower strain from January to November 2024 with $25.9 million in sales and Wedding Cake #4 with $15.7 million.7 In The Marijuana Herald’s September 2026 list, Blue Dream leads California and New York and Wedding Cake leads Washington.8 Blue Dream has its own guide in the Official Cannabis network at bluedream.com.

Which is easier to find

In Weedmaps snapshots from Oct 4, 2026 (Wedding Cake) and Oct 3, 2026 (Blue Dream), 207 stores within 50 miles of Los Angeles listed Wedding Cake flower on Weedmaps, against 293 stores for Blue Dream; around New York the counts were 56 and 129.9

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Sources

  1. Headset, Cannabis strain sales data (2020-03-31). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  2. Leafly, The best-selling weed strains of 2025 (Morgan Rosendale) (2026-02-02). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  3. Leafly, Blue Dream strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  4. Leafly, Wedding Cake (aka Triangle Mints #23, Pink Cookies) strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  5. Cannlytics (CC BY 4.0), cannabis_results: public state lab results (filtered and aggregated by Official Cannabis). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  6. Weedmaps, Wedding Cake (aka Pink Cookies) strain page. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  7. Cannabis Business Times, The top 10 bestselling flower strains in California in 2024 (Tony Lange) (2024-12-30). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  8. The Marijuana Herald, The top-selling marijuana strain in all 23 states with legal recreational sales (Anthony Martinelli) (2026-09-18). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  9. 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.