Space Cake: recipe, effects… the complete guide

Space cakes are pastries enriched with hemp or cannabis. Because they are consumed by ingestion, they are classified as edibles. Most often in the form of cookies or brownies, these cakes can contain varying amounts of THC or CBD depending on the ingredients used in their preparation.

It's important to remember that it's not always easy to control the final THC or CBD dosage in a space cake, and that ingestion significantly alters the intensity and duration of the effects. Therefore, it's essential to exercise restraint and consume these treats responsibly.

To help you make and enjoy your space cakes to the fullest, we have prepared a complete guide for you.

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Space cake brownie recipe

To make a CBD brownie recipe, you will need the following ingredients:

 

 

• 250g of dark chocolate
• 15 to 30 g of hemp flowers or trim (or 5 to 10 g of resin)
• 150 g of sugar
• 150g of butter
• 1 sachet of vanilla sugar
• 60g of sifted flour
• 3 eggs
• 1 pinch of salt

The recipe is divided into two parts : making the hemp butter, then making the space brownie.

But once you have made your butter, you can very well use it in a cookie recipe, a drink, or as is on toast, or in an infusion.

Hemp butter recipe

• Decarboxylationbox: Grind the hemp and place it on a baking sheet and put it in the oven for 30 to 40 minutes at 110–115°C. The CBD needs to heat up, but it should not burn
• Infusion: Melt the butter in a saucepan, add 1 liter of water and your hemp. The water will prevent the butter from burning, and since it doesn't mix, it will be easy to separate the butter after it cools.
  Let it infuse over very low heat for 1 to 2 hours. The mixture should never boil. If you're worried about it getting too hot, you can place the butter and water in a double boiler.

•   Filter the still-warm mixture through a fine sieve or clean cbatchh to separate the plant remains, then place the mixture in the refrigerator.

CBD brownie recipe

Once you have your Marrakech butter, all that remains is to follow a classic recipe:

• Melt the butter and the chocolate broken into pieces over very low heat, in a bain-marie.
• Off the heat, mix the melted chocolate and butter, then add and mix in the following checkout:
  sugar, vanilla sugar, beaten eggs, a pinch of salt, and finally the flour.
• Place the mixture in a greased baking tin and bake for 15 to 20 minutes at 180°C.

Variations, tips and tricks

Traditionally, CBD flowers are used to make Marrakech butter, but you can use other ingredients for variety:

Make a potent CBD space cake

You can use highly concentrated resins such as 80% resin, or Creamy OG containing 50% CBG + 20% CBD.

Cheap CBD space cake

The best way to make space cakes on a budget is to use trim, like our 20% cannabidiol fragmented CBD. Plus, you skip the grinder step!

CBD space cake without the taste and smell of flowers or resins

For those bothered by the taste or smell of cannabis or resin, you can simply use CBD isolate or crystals. In this case, you skip theboxstep and go directly to the infusion stage, but it's essential to adjust the dose. The crystals are 99.9% pure: you should not exceed 500 mg.

Space cake: dangers and precautions

Precautions

There are several precautions to observe if you wish to make space cakes and consume them safely, particularly if it is your first time taking them, or if you are using a new CBD product:

• Adjust the dose according to your tolerance: When making the recipe, do not exceed the indicated dose, and if you have any doubt, do not hesitate to reduce it.
• Wait at least 6 hours before taking a second space cake: This is a classic beginner's mistake. Everyone's metabolism is different, and it can take a long time for the effects to kick in. Wait until you're sure they've taken effect before taking another.
• Avoid doing it alone: ​​Not only is this type of experience always more fun with others, but it is also safer.

Possible side effects

In rare cases, consuming CBD space cake can cause various side effects :

• drowsiness, difficulty concentrating
• digestive problems, nausea
• dry mouth
• drop in blood pressure, dizziness

These effects occur mainly in cases of overconsumption or if the recommended dosage is not followed. Therefore, it is important to exercise restraint and consume these pastries responsibly.

What to do in case of overconsumption?

If you feel unwell after ingesting CBD space cake, you can follow these few guidelines to calm the situation:

Stay calm: that's the most important thing. Remember that CBD has very limited toxicity. Just wait and the effects will dissipate on their own. Panic will only make the situation worse.

Find a comfortable position: lie down, get into bed, or curl up on your sofa. Find the most comfortable position possible to help you stay calm and wait for the effects to wear off.

Drink regularly and in small amounts: staying hydrated can help ease nausea and relieve dry mouth symptoms.

Consume sugar: drinking or eating sugary foods can help stabilize blood sugar and alleviate the effects.

Keep yourself busy: do what you enjoy. Watching a series or listening to music can help you stay calm, focused, and occupied until the symptoms disappear.

Space cake: effects and mode of action

When consumed orally, space cakes produce very different effects from those obtained by vaporization. Because cannabinoids pass through the digestive system and not the lungs, their onset, intensity, and duration are radically different.

 

When you eat a space cake, the cannabinoids first reach the stomach, then the digestive tract.
There, they are partially broken down by gastric acid and digestive enzymes, allowing the intestinal lining to absorb them and send them into the bloodstream.

This absorption method is slow, which explains why the effects appear with a delay, generally between 30 minutes and 2 hours after ingestion.

Once in the bloodstream, cannabinoids pass through the liver, where they are metabolized.
In the case of THC, the liver produces a key metabolite: 11-hydroxy-THC (11-OH-THC). CBD, on the other hand, creates 7-hydroxy-CBD (7-OH-CBD).

These metabolites cross the blood-brain barrier more easily than inhaled THC and CBD, resulting in more intense and powerful effects, and above all, much longer lasting effects.

This is why the effects of a space cake can last 6 to 8 hours, sometimes longer depending on the dose, metabolism and diet.

Origin and history of Space Cake

From Antiquity to the Renaissance, across the world

Although space cake became particularly popular in the 1970s, the practice of ingesting cannabis did not originate then. In fact, references to the use of spiced milk or butter flavored with cannabis paste, called bhang, bhang thandai, or bhang lassi, can be found in some Indian Vedic texts dating back to approximately 1000 BCE.

The same type of tradition also exists in North Africa: majoun, a pastry made from butter from Marrakech, was appreciated by Berber tribes in the 11th century.

In Europe, there is mention of cannabis-infused foods in a cookbook published in 1465 by the historian and gastronome Bartolomeo Platina : De honesta voluptate et valetudine (which can be translated as: "On honorable pleasure and health").

Edible cannabis in modern culture

In the modern West, one of the recipes that brought space cake back into the spotlight is that of “hashish fudge” , published in Alice B. Toklas’s cookbook in 1954. Although the term “space cake” is not yet used, this recipe enjoyed some success in the early 1960s.

Relatively famous until the end of the 70s in the hippie counterculture, fond of “pot brownies” and “hash brownies”, this recipe helps to popularize the consumption of cannabis in edible form.

1970s–1990s: Amsterdam's space cake trend

It was in Dutch coffee shops, which appeared in the early 1970s, that cannabis cakes gained popularity.
Sold as a discreet and tasty alternative to joints, they took the name they still bear today: space cake, literally the cake that sends you into space.