I was never much of a vegetable eater growing up. Regardless, my mother had a garden in our backyard every summer, and inevitably the produce would end up on our plates. Near the end of the harvest, when the getting was best, my mother would come up with inventive new ways to get me to eat the garden’s excess greens, including baking them into cakes and muffins. Carrots. Zucchini. Any produce possible was cooked into a treat and iced to perfection to hide its sinister purpose — to get me eat these nutritious vegetables.
Still to this day, I suspiciously eye every dessert I’m given in case it is laced with some sort of gourd or root. However, I didn’t have to look past the label on Miss Mary Jane’s Bakeshop’s cake pop to see that it was made of carrot cake. The sacrifices I make for you, the reader, are innumerable. So I tore open the package and prepared my review.
The cake pop itself was festively decorated for Halloween as a Jack-o-lantern. He had a playful grin, but after he posed for a few pictures, the time came for his ultimate demise. I closed my eyes and bit into him. What came next challenged all my expectations. It was good! Damn good. Unlike any carrot cake I’d eaten before. First, the delicately thin chocolate shell, when served cold, melted softly in the mouth. After this sensation, you notice the cake itself. Surprisingly spicy, in a sweet, autumn flavored kind of way, there is no sense of the sinister carrot. The cake was really fluffy in its texture and remained incredibly fresh, even after a week in the fridge. Everything about this confection reminded me of fall back home in New Jersey, so I paired mine with a hot mulled cider to complete the effect and enjoyed it on the patio out back.
With just under 60 mg THC, these indica leaning cake pops are the perfect single dose for a moderate user. The laid back high was relaxing and comfortable, but thankfully, there was no lock, making it effective as a daytime medication to manage pain. The sedative effects can also help the physical effects of anxiety and PTSD. However, it wasn’t strong enough a tranquilizer to knock me out, so you may want to look elsewhere to relieve your insomnia. For a wonderful workday indica edible, look no further than these cake pops from Miss Mary Jane’s Bake Shop.
$15
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1536 E. Warner Ave. Suite B
Santa Ana, CA
