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Space cakes are pastries enriched with hemp or cannabis. As 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 ingredient used to prepare them.
Bear in mind that it's not always easy to control the final THC or CBD dosage in a space cake, and that ingestion strongly modifies the intensity and duration of the effects. It is therefore essential to exercise restraint and consume these pastries responsibly.
To help you get the most out of your space cakes, we've put together a complete dossier.
Although space cake was particularly fashionable from the 70s onwards, the use of cannabis by ingestion was far from born at that time. In fact, references to the use of spiced milk or butter with cannabis paste, known as bhang, bhang thandai or bhang lassi, can be found in Indian Vedic texts dating back to around 1000 BC.
The same type of tradition also exists in North Africa: majoun, a pastry made with butter from Marrakech, was enjoyed by Berber tribes in the XIᵉ century.
In Europe, mention of cannabis-infused foods can be found in a cookbook published in 1465 by historian and gastronome Bartolomeo Platina : De honesta voluptate et valetudine (translated as "On honorable pleasure and health").
In the modern West, one of the recipes bringingspace cake back into fashionis "hashish fudge", published in Alice B. Toklas' cookbook. Toklas (Alice B. Toklas Cookbook) in 1954. Although space cake was not yet mentioned, the recipe enjoyed some success in the early '60s.
Relatively famous until the late 70s in the hippie counterculture, fond of "pot brownies" and "hash brownies", this recipe helped popularize the consumption of cannabis in edible form.
Cannabis cakes first gained popularity in Dutch coffee shops in the early 70s.
Sold as a discreet, tasty alternative to joints, they took on the name they still bear today: space cake.
When consumed by ingestion, space cakes produce very different effects from those obtained by vaporization. As cannabinoids pass through the digestive system rather than the lungs, their onset, intensity and duration change radically.
When you eat a space cake, cannabinoids first reach the stomach, then the digestive tract.
There, they are partially broken down by gastric acidity and digestive enzymes, enabling the intestinal mucosa to absorb them and send them to the bloodstream.
This mode of absorption is slow, which explains why effects appear with a delay, generally between 30 minutes and 2 hours after ingestion.
Once in the blood, 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, powerful and, above all, much longer-lasting effects.
That's why the effects of a space cake can last 6 to 8 hours, sometimes longer, depending on dose, metabolism and diet.
To make a CBD brownie recipe, you'll need the following ingredients:
The recipe is divided into two parts: making the hemp butter, then making the space brownie.
But once you've made your own butter, you can use it in a recipe for cookies or a drink, or as is on toast or in an infusion.
Once you have your Marrakech butter, all that's left to do is follow a classic recipe:
Classically, CBD flowers are used to make Marrakech butter, but you can use other ingredients for variety:
Making a potent CBD space cake: you can use highly concentrated resins like 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 CBD fragmented with 20% cannabidiol.
Plus, you avoid the grinder step!
Powerful, tasteless, odorless CBD space cake : For those who don't like the taste or smell of herb or resin, you can simply use CBD isolate or crystals. In this case, you avoid the decarboxylation stage and go straight to the infusion stage, but you'll need to adjust the dose. Crystals are 99.9% pure: you must not exceed 500 mg.
There are several precautions to observe if you want to make space cakes and consume them safely, especially if it's your first time, or if you're using a new CBD:
In rare cases, consuming CBD space cake can cause various side effects:
These effects occur mainly if the product is overdosed, or if the dosage is not respected. That's why it 's important to exercise restraint and consume these pastries responsibly.
If you feel ill 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 the toxicity of CBD is very limited. Just wait and the effects will wear off on their own. Panic will only make the situation worse.
Find a comfortable position: lie down, get into bed or curl up on the 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 doses: staying hydrated can help wash away nausea and relieve dry mouth symptoms.
Absorb sugar: drinking or eating sweet foods can help stabilize blood sugar levels and mitigate the effects.
Keep busy: do what you enjoy. Watching a series or listening to music can help you stay calm, focused and busy until the symptoms disappear.
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