Making Space Cake: The Ultimate Space cake Recipe with Weed Butter

Have you always wanted to make a space cake? Then you will find the perfect recipe in this article! Easily make a space cake with weed butter. For those who have never eaten a space cake before, but also for experienced edibles fans. Simply replace the weed with a stronger strain. Put on your apron and keep this space cake recipe close. Making a space cake is really easy.

In this article:

  1. Space Cake Recipe
  2. Space Cake Ingredients – Which type of weed and CBD “space” cake
  3. Making Weed Butter
  4. Making Space Cake
  5. Space Cake without Weed Butter – Also a Vegan Space Cake
  6. Eating Space Cake – All Your Questions Answered

Space Cake Recipe

Are you having a special party, do you have leftover weed or cannabis waste, or just want to eat space cake to know what it's like? Then follow this simple space cake recipe with weed butter.

How much weed do you actually need to make a space cake? Grab our Spacecake Calculator! Always the desired effects and no THC overdose. Whether you have a space cake recipe in front of you, weed gummies or other edibles.

Space Cake Ingredients

With this space cake recipe, you can make enough space cake for 6 people. You can easily double the recipe if the group is larger. Later on in this article we will tell you why you should only eat one slice of space cake per person. Let's make it first.

  • 6 grams of weed – use buds or cutting waste, do not use leaves
  • 150 grams of butter or coconut oil
  • Half a package of cake mix (you can also use a mix of flour, sugar and salt)
  • 2 eggs
  • 25 ml (plant-based) milk
  • Half a package of vanilla sugar

Utensils:

  • Mixing bowl
  • Cake mould
  • Cheesecloth, (clean) kitchen towel or fine-mesh sieve
  • Good grinder
  • One small and one large pan 

Which type of weed should I use to make Space cake?

You can use any type of weed to make a space cake. However, preference is given to weed with a decent THC percentage such as Auto Lemon Skunk, Auto Blueberry, or our own White Widow.

Space cake with or without THC

If you prefer to make a space cake without THC, you can choose for example CBD Auto Charlotte’s Angel or CBD Medi Haze. These ladies contain less than one percent THC and ten to twenty percent CBD. The preparation is exactly the same. Do you have experience with space cake and want the strongest of the strongest? Fatkid’s Cake and Girl Scout Cookies will take you to the moon with almost 30% THC!

Making Weed butter

The best space cake recipe always includes some form of weed butter. This is actually nothing more than the combination of your weed and the butter. By making weed butter you make the space cake "active".

  1. Au bain marie: Put a layer of water in a large pan and place a smaller pan in it. Put the fire on low heat and bring the water to a boil. Let the butter or coconut oil melt.
  2. Grind the weed very fine. Preferably use a quality grinder to pulverize your weed completely.
  3. Put the crumbled weed in the pan with butter. Stir it briefly and let it simmer for 2 hours, stirring regularly.
  4. Important - Keep an eye on the water level in the large pan. This prevents the weed butter from baking.
  5. After two hours the THC has dissolved. Sieve out the plant residues by holding a cheesecloth, kitchen towel or fine-mesh sieve over the mixing bowl. Pour the butter, still warm, into the mixing bowl.
  6. Leave the butter to cool in the fridge until it has become as thick/solid as before making the weed butter.

During preparation, the weed butter takes on a dark colour which becomes lighter while cooling. Is the weed butter light green in colour? Then the weed butter has been successfully prepared!

Weed Butter

Making Space Cake

Now making the space cake is very easy. There is no need for special tricks. Just follow the recipe on the cake mix packaging, but adjust the oven temperature and baking time accordingly.

  1. Preheat the oven to 170°C.
  2. Mix the ingredients until light and fluffy.
  3. Grease the cake mould well with the leftovers from the mixer or other kitchen utensils.
  4. Fill the cake mould to a maximum of two-thirds of its rim.
  5. Place the cake mould in the oven for 20 minutes.
  6. We have now reached the halfway point. Turn the cake halfway and leave it to bake for another 20 minutes at the same temperature.

Fresh and warm space cake is the tastiest. Leave it to rest for 15 minutes before eating.

Space Cake without Weed Butter – Also a Vegan Space Cake

You can also make a space cake without weed butter. In that case you put the pieces of weed directly into your batter. But this is often less tasty, because you are chewing on pieces of weed.

Decarboxylating

Did you know that eating raw weed does not make you stoned? That is because weed contains almost no THC. The THC is as it were trapped in a substance called THCA. We wrote earlier that making weed butter is the way to make your weed "active". Activating weed is called decarboxylating. This is the heating of your raw weed to convert the inactive THCA in the plant material into the THC that makes you stoned. There are many books written about this subject. That's why we think it's more important that you understand why it's necessary to encase weed in a fatty substance like weed butter.

It is quite simple. The fat in weed butter prevents the THC from evaporating. Heating it in the oven takes a while. THCA is a rather volatile substance that evaporates at 105°C. If you put the weed on the baking tray like this, the valuable stuff evaporates and your space cake will be tasty, but will have little or no effect. Fat slows down the decomposition to ensure that the THCA is converted into THC and not immediately lost.


Do you want to make a super sweet and fruity space cake? Then add a few slices of ripe mango. Mango can increase the effect a little!

Vegan Space cake

It is a myth that animal or saturated fat is needed to decarboxylate (heat). A study [1] by High Times shows that olive oil actually retains the THC best. However, for an easy to prepare vegan space cake, it is advisable to substitute coconut oil for the butter. Coconut oil also comes out well in the test and the advantage of that is that it is viscous at room temperature.

You can simply replace the milk with any plant-based version. The eggs can be replaced by two chia or linseed "eggs" in any baking product. Both chia seed and linseed are bursting with Omega-3 unsaturated fatty acids. You can't get enough of those in our modern diet! For the recipe, we need two and it's super simple:

Put 2 tablespoons of linseed or chia seeds and 6 tablespoons of water in a small bowl. Wait 5 minutes and stir carefully. Use exactly the same way as you would use an egg for baking.

Eating Space Cake – All Your Questions Answered

Eating Space cake for beginners: 

  • Take only one slice of the space cake.
  • Combining space cake with alcohol is a bad idea.
  • How long does space cake take to kick in? Up to two hours.
  • How long does the effect of space cake last? 4 to 10 hours.
  • You will not hallucinate from space cake.
  • Is space cake unhealthy? Just as unhealthy as your grandmother's cake.
  • Can you make a space cake with hash? Yes, you can.
  • Is space cake legal? Space cake with THC is not. In most countries edibles have the same status as weed.
  • How do I store space cake? In a closed container in the fridge. Do not warm it up in the oven or microwave, but let it come to room temperature outside the fridge.
  • Can you buy space cake? Yes, for example in Amsterdam. But making it yourself is simple and much more fun.


This is about 6 grams of weed. This is what you need for this recipe.

Why doesn’t the space cake work?

One of the reasons for this is that the space cake has been prepared incorrectly and does not contain THC (anymore). If you put the cake in the oven for too short a time or set the temperature too low, not all the THCA is converted into active THC. If you set the temperature too high and/or the time in the oven too long, then the THC is everywhere but in the cake.

Another reason could be that you have been snacking a lot before eating a slice of space cake. It is heartily recommended that you do not eat for two to three hours beforehand.

Finally, there is also the possibility that you have a higher tolerance for space cake. But beware - 1 in 20 people are very sensitive to THC. If you are one of them, you may experience the effects of space cake up to ten times stronger.

Then we would like to tell you that it takes much longer to feel the effects of a space cake. It can take up to two hours before you feel anything! So do not reach for the second slice, but wait quietly until you feel something.

Whatever you do, do not take more portions of space cake within two hours. It can get very unpleasant!

Space cake vs Truffles – Will you Hallucinate?

No. You certainly don't hallucinate, but your perception does change with a space cake. And the Space cake Effect vs Joint? You feel lazy, giggly, euphoric, physically numb or stoned and ultimately hungry. Just like with weed from the vaporizer. A joint is different because the effects of tobacco also play a role in the experience of weed. The difference between a space cake and a few puffs from a vaporizer lies in the timing of the same effects. A joint and a vaporizer work almost immediately and can last up to 4 hours. A slice of space cake can last 4-10 hours and it can take up to 2 hours before you notice anything. So be patient and don't take another slice or joint in between. If you do, the effects will start to accumulate and you will be confronted with a mountain of THC all at once. You become anxious and panicky, dizzy and want it to stop. In popular speech this is called a bad trip, but it is certainly not the same as a real bad trip on Magic Mushrooms or Truffles.

Eaten too much space cake? Then take about 10 drops of strong CBD oil, candy or a glass of soda to slow down the effects. It will go away by itself.

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